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youth, with eyes convulfed, and phyz dif- 

 tort and pale, in imperfedt, hafty ftammers, 

 proclaims a flamming Bitch -, whilft fome 

 graver Sire (whom age and experience bid 

 be pofitive) with paralytic nods, and afped: 

 four, portending contradidlion, affirms fhe 

 is fmall and young. Learned fage ! Others, 

 in joyful confuiion, amaze, and fufpence, 

 fcarce diftinguifh whether it is a Hare or 

 not. The Huntfman, on whom for fupe- 

 rior knov/ledge each dependent is, from 

 maxims of his own, arbitrarily decides the 

 fex. But to fuch Wifeacres, who pretend 

 with certainty, from the whitenefs of one 

 part, or rednefs of another, to diftinguifli 

 Buck from Doe, it may be faid, there is 

 but male and female; and the man who ne- 

 vtv faw a Hare in his life, but declares his 

 opinion at random, it is a tofs up if he is 

 not as often right as the wifeft of them. But 

 to proceed, as we have imagined a fo-ho ! 

 we may as well fuppofe flie is a(5lually on 

 foot. Hark ! the hills and woods refound 

 the loud acclaim. 



Now the leaden -heeled Hind and brawny 

 Peafant, with hob- nailed fhoone, labour 



o'er 



