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and early English poetry. In a satire on Edward, 

 Earl of Cornwall, hinting at his escape from prisor^ 

 there is the following allusion to it : 



" Be the leuf, be the lout, Sire Edward, 

 Thou shalt ride sporeless o 1 thy Lyard, 

 All the righte way to Doverward." 



Edward II. purchased thirty Lomhardy war- 

 horses and twelve heavy draught-horses, between 

 which there could not be much difference, except- 

 ing in the training. His son, Edward III., expended 

 one thousand marks for fifty Spanish horses, and 

 obtained for their transmission a safe conduct from 

 the kings of Spain and France, who showed more 

 liberality in granting the boon than he did to a 

 German dealer, who, having imported some Flan- 

 ders stallions on speculation, was only permitted to 

 re-embark them, but not to take them to Scotland, 

 where no doubt they would have amply repaid 

 him, since, so late as the reign of Queen Mary, 

 Perlin, a French traveller, remarks, that the Scots 

 chivalry were wretchedly mounted. * 



Edward had many running horses, by which we 

 think are meant fleet hunters, of a lighter make 



for motto, " Hoist Bayard." Byard, or Bayard, denoted a bay, 

 probably from the Arabic bay el, a horse. Aldrovandus thinks 

 that Valus, the name of Belisarius's charger, indicates a bay ; 

 we think it derived from vale, a pale or Isabella horse. Bayert, 

 nevertheless, is an old Teutonic word, to which, in the Nether- 

 lands at least, the idea of black was affixed. 



* Description d'Angleterre et d'Ecosse, par Etienne Perlin, 

 1558. 



