CHESHIRE CHIVALRY 



They may call the grey mare at his side the best 



horse, 

 But they both pull together for better for worse ; 

 Through the heyday of life may they pleasantly pass, 

 Till by Death, that grim groom, they are turn'd out 



to grass. 



Cheshij'e Chivalry 



On the 23rd of December 1837, the Cheshire Hounds found a fox in the 

 plantation adjoining Tilston Lodge. Running directly to the house, he 

 baffled for a time all further pursuit by leaping through a window-pane into 

 the dairy. When captured, he was turned out at Wardle Gorse, and after 

 an unusually quick burst, in the course of which he crossed two canals, was 

 killed at Cholmondeston. 



UNPUNISH'D shall Reynard our dairies attack. 

 His fate unrecorded in song ? 

 Ah ! no ; when the captive was loos'd from a sack. 

 There was not, fair milk-maid, a hound in the pack. 

 But was bent on avenging thy wrong. 



II 



Would that those who imagine all chivalry o'er, 



Had encounter'd our gallant array ; 

 Ne'er a hundred such knights, e'en in ages of yore. 

 Took the field in the cause of one damsel before. 



As were seen in the saddle that day. 



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