24 PREFACE. 



" ut animus agitatione motuque corporis excitetur, " is not 

 reprehensible, nor inconsistent with the due cultivation of the 

 mind, and the fulfilment of the higher duties of life. 



Petr. Lolichii jpgg etiam citliarara Phoebus quandoque reponit : 



2di Eclog. I. . , • 



Sarnis vs 10 ^^ phareiras plectns, et mutat piectra pharetns. 



But " there is an especiall need, " observes Christopher 

 Wase, in the preface of his translation of Gratius, after much 

 just praise of hunting, '' to hold a strict reine over our 

 affections, that this pleasure, which is allowable in its season, 

 may not entrench upon other domesticall affaires. We must 

 consider that it wastes much time, and although it have its 

 own praise, being an honest recreation and exercise, yet it is 

 not of the noblest parts of life. There is great danger lest wee 

 bee transported with this pastime, and so ourselves grow wild, 

 haunting the woods till wee resemble the beasts which are 

 citizens of them, ^ and, by continual conversation with dogs, 

 become altogether addicted to slaughter and carnage, which is 

 wholly dishonorable, being a servile employment. For as it 

 is the privilege of man, who is endued with reason, and 



" the curious search or conquest of one beast over another, persued by a naturall 

 instinct of cnmitie ; — " how 



Rokeby, c. iii. Tlie slow liound wakes the fox's lair, 



1. 



The grejhound pressis on tlie hare; 



but not hostile instigators of cauine ferocity to the heartless maiming and slaying an 

 unnatural prey — a species of animal conflict never intended by creative wisdom ; and 

 wherein violence is done to natural instinct to minister to man's unhallowed sport. 

 II. C. Agrippa; 1. Cui dum nimium insistunt, ipsi abject.'^, hunianitate ferae efficiuntur, morumque 

 de \ anitate etc. prodigios^i pcrversitate, tanquara Acteeon mutautur in naturam belluarum. 



c. I.XXVII. 



