CYNEGETICA;
OR,
ESSAYS ONSPORTING:
CONSISTING OF
OBSERVATIONS
ON
HARE HUNTING:
CONTAINING,
Together with
An Account of the Vizier's Manner of Hunting in the Mogul Empire.
By WILLIAM BLANE, Eſq.
To which is added,
THE CHACE: A POEM.
By WILLIAM SOMERVILE, Eſq.
A new Edition, embelliſhed with an elegant Frontiſpiece and a Vignette.
Οὑτω δὲ ἐπιχαρι ἐϛι το θηριόν, ὥϛε οὐδεὶς ὀϛις οὐκ ἂν ἰδών ἰχνευόμενον, εὑρισκόμενον, μεταθεόμενον, ἁλισκόμενον, ἐπιλάθοιτ᾽ ἂν εἴτȣ ἐρωη.
Xenoph. Cyneg.
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind.
So flew'd, ſo ſanded, and their heads are hung
With ears that ſweep away the morning dew;
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd, like Theſſalian bulls;
Slow in purſuit, but match'd in mouth like bells.
Each under each. A cry more tuneable
Was never halloo'd to, nor cheer'd with horn.
Shakespeare's Midſumrmer Night's Dream.