Word: phebus
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lustrous treatise on hawking, angling, hunting was written in the shadow of the Church. The first printed English sporting book, the Book of St. Albans, was written presumably by an abbess. "The greatest hunting manuscript in existence." the brilliantly illuminated 15th-Century Le Lime de la Chasse of Gaston Phebus, observes: "There is no man's life less displeasurable to God than the life of a perfect, skillful hunter. . . . Hunting causeth a man to eschew the seven deadly sins...
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