PREFACE. 



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and ardent courser, fired at the idea of his favourite sport, his 

 greyhounds, and his mountain thoughts being Hghtly or dis- 

 dainfully received in the world's esteem ! 



MY CrvEYHOUNDS. 



llemember'st tliou my greyhounds true ? 



O'er holt or hill there never flew, 



From leash or slip there never sprang. 



More fleet of foot or sure of fang. — Introd. to Marmion C'ant. ii 



Oh ! dear is the naked wold to nie, 

 Where I move alone in my majesty ! 

 Thyme and cistus kiss my feet, 

 And spread around their incense sweet ; 



As the originator of the Courser's Stud Book, and the indefatigable compiler of its 

 genealogical tables, (an attempt " multa deducere virg^," to derive " by trees 

 of pedigrees," as Dryden says, the speed and shape of each celebrated descendant, in 

 the greyhound kennel, from the recorded genealogies and performances of a far- 

 famed ancestry, — ayaOol 5e iyivovro dia rh (pvvai e'| ayaBwv,) the name of Mr. Barnard Platonis Mene- 

 must be recorded in the annals of coursing with lasting gratitude ; notwithstanding •^enus. 

 the prolegomena of a vicarious editor have occasioned the substitution of a second 

 name on the title-page of the work, after the unexpected death of the original 

 projector : 



ov yap oIS' aveefyfjiivas irvKas Euripidis Hip- 



"ASov, ^dos T6 Xoicrdiov fixiiroiv ro'Se. P° 



But let us cease this querulous display of individual feeling. Many did not know him ; 

 and those who did — his relatives — his friends and con-espondents — have felt too 

 much already. And the preface to so trivial a work as a Courser's Vade-Mecuni is 

 not a fit occasion for descanting on the high merits of a Christian scholar ; nor is 

 lamentation over the dead a suitable prelude to the entertainment of the living. 



s -> , \ V , a' J./1 \ s - Ejusdem vs. 



KaX x«'P ' ^M"' 7"P o" Pf^'^ (pvLTovs opau, aa'^C 



ovS" tjfifxa xp«^''ei»' Bavao-lixoiciv eK7rfoo7s. 



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