[227] "Back there!" from the Fr. arrière.
[228] "Out of couples, forward there, forward!" (Precisely the same instructions are given by the later Twety and Gyfford.)
[229] "Gently, my friend, gently!"
[230] Quest, hunt, seek, also challenge.
[231] "Softly, there he has been!"
[232] "In this place," or "here, here." This passage, which reads somewhat confusedly in our MS., is clearer in Twety and Gyfford (Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. i. p. 149). It reads as follows: "And then ye shall blowe iij notes, yf yowr hund ne chace not well hym, there one ther another, as he hath pasturyd hym, ye shall say 'Illeosque, illeosque, illeosque,'" meaning that 3 motes should be blown where the hare has pastured to bring your hounds to the place, illeosque meaning here, in this place.
[233] "Softly there, here she has been, back there." Following this the Shirley MS. and Twety and Gyfford contain a passage which our MS. has not got: "And thenne sa cy, a este sohow, and afterwards sa cy avaunt."
[234] "Softly, my friend, she has been here."
[235] "Here gently, here valiantly."
[236] To call back the hounds from a wrong scent, the same as "recheat."