^jo Somerviles [second 



BOOK THE SECOND. 



ARGUMENT. 



OF the Power of Inftinft in Brutes. Two remarkable In- 

 flances in the Hunting of the Roe-buck, and in tlie Hare go- 

 ing to Seat in the Morning. Of the Variety of Seats or 

 Forms of the Hare, according to the Change of the Seafon, 

 Weather, or Wind. Defcription of the Hare-hunting in all 

 its Parts, interfperfed with Rules to be obferved by thofe 

 who follow that Chace. Tranfition to the Afiatic Way of 

 Hunting, particularly the magnificent Manner of the Great 

 Mogul, and other Tartarian Princes, taken from Monfieur 

 Bernier, and the Hiftory of Gengifkan the Great. Con- 

 cludes with a fhort Reproof of Tyrants and Opprcffors of 

 Mankind. 



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OR will it lefs deli2;lit th' attentive fage 

 T' obferve that inftindl, which unerring guides 

 The brutal race, which mimics reafon's lore 

 Andofttranfcends. Heav'n-taught,the roe-buck fwift 

 Loiters at eafe before the driving pack, 

 And mocks their vain purfuit ; nor far he flies 

 But checks his ardour, till the fleaming fcent, 

 That frefhens on the blade, provokes their rage. 

 Urg'd to their fpeed, his weak deluded foes 

 Soon flag fatigued ; flrain'd to excefs each nerve. 

 Each flacken'd finew fails ; they pant, they foam ; 



Then 



