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Savary of Caen published a Latin poem on hare-hunting Album Diana;, 

 in seven books, ' entitled '* Album Dianai Leporicidoe, sive 1G55. 

 Venationis Leporinee leges," of some rarity, but of little merit. 

 He appears to have had an especial dislike to the canis 

 Gallicus, anathematizing the ancient Celtic recreation in the 

 very style of our own Somerville, who in many parts of 

 " The Chase" seemingly had his eye on the poet of Caen : 



Nam neque defisi canis irretita coturnix Alb. Diana; &c. 



Indicio, non iusidiis oppressa Laconura ■ • H- 



Heu leporum virtus, bievis ilia et avara voluptas, 

 Et quorum iiuuquam cor est satiabile caedis 

 Nobile venandi nomen meruere ! 



The courser will scarce recognize his favourite dog in the 

 slanderous abstract misnomer of '' LacedaBmonii pernix violentia 

 monstri." 



The celebrated works of Jaques du Fouilloux, and his con- La Chasse du 



± T 1 /->(i 1 n 1 /> , Loup. J. de CI. 



temporary Jean de Glamorgan, do not treat oi the use of the 

 greyhound, except merely " in setting back-sets, or receytes 

 for deare, wolfe, foxe, or such like :" but in " the noble art of Turberviie's B. 



of H. p. 246. 



Venerie" by Turbervile and Gascoigne, in " the Jewell for 



Gentrie," and the compilations of Gervase Markham, we find Countiey Con- 



'■ ' tentments. 



much illustration of the science and history of the leash in CountrejFarme 



•^ &c. &c. 



Great Britain.^ 



1. Innuba, qui pariter coelebs, duo numina cultu . ,, ^. 



. ,. . ., . . Alb. Diana &c. 



Assiduo colit, Artemidem junxitque Minervas, L_ iv, p^ 52 



Carus utrique Dese Savary, quern sedula semper 



Investigandi leporis tenet ultima cura. 



2. The date of the greyhound's introduction into these islands is with difficulty Symmachi E- 



ascertained. If the " septem Scoticorum canum oblatio " of Flavian, wherewith he pist. L. ii. 

 graced the Quaestor's spectacle of his brother Symraachus at Rome, be really coarse '^ 

 varieties of the Celtic type, as supposed by Christopher Wase, this hound must have 



