Chaucer s .Haunts 



137 



which is thus translated by Rose: 



As mastiff that below the deer-hound lies, 

 Fixed by the gullet fast, with holding bite, 

 \'ainly bestirs himself and vainly tries, 

 \\'ith lips besmeared with foam and eyes alight, 

 And cannot from beneath the conqueror rise, 

 Who foils his foe by force, and not despite. 



Vendetta, a Great Dane. 

 (From Leighton, New Book of the Dog, p. 88.) 



The New English Dictionary furnishes no instance between 

 Chaucer and Berners' Froissart (1525).^'^ In literature proper 



^" But in the Sowdone of Bahylone (ca. 1400), we have (54-6) : 

 To chase the Bore or the Veneson, 

 The Wolfe, the Bere, and the Bawson, 

 With Alauntes, Lymmeris, and Racches free. 



