ON rOURSING, 



79 



yet alive), most gentle, and kindly-affcctioncd ; "' and never 

 before had anv dog such regard for myself, and friend and 

 fellow-sportsman, Megillus. "* For when not actually engaged 

 in coursin*:;, he is never away from one or other of us. 

 But while I am at home he remains within, by my side, ac- 

 companies me on going abroad, ^ follows me to the gymnasium, 



Cut 



It must be confessed, however, that the name Horme (Angl. Rush) is more applica- 

 ble to a bitch than a dog. 



3. It is generally believed that greyhounds have very weak attachments; and the Ciironique de 



fickle companions of Charles de Blois and of Richard II. favour such an opinion, iroissait, and 



. . , note to 



But against these well-known examples of canine infidelity, we may place others of 



Johnnes's 

 extraordinary attachment to their lords; at the head of which let Horme stand, Transl. V. iv. 

 irpaoTttTTj Kol (piXavOpcoTToraTri, the beloved and afiPectionate hound of the founder of 

 the leash : 



657. 



Possem multa canum variorum exempla referre, 

 Ni pigeat stadium parvarum noscere rerum. 



Natalis Comes 

 de Venat. L. i. 



To the tales of inviolable attachment recorded by the ro3'al pen of Edmund Duke of 



York, of " the greiliounde boothe good and faire of Kyng Apollo of Lyonnys," and JIHagStrr Of 



the " wel good and faire greihounde that was Aubries of Mondidert," the reader is ^ , ^' *"■ .^" 

 " " . fol. 47 — 49. 



referred for farther examples ; nor should he forget the martyr Charles's dying eulogy 



of the Celtic hound. 



Vide J. C. Scaliger de Subtil, ad Card. Exerc. ccir. the last of the Historiee Duse 

 Nobilissimae, sect. 6. 



4. " Amans dominorum adulatio." 



nulla homini mage prodiga grati 



Officii quadrupes, domiuisque fidelior ipsis ! 



Cicero de Na- 

 tur&. Ueor. 



says the kind-hearted poet of Venusium : and again, 



Usque sequetur ovans, tua nee vestigia quoquam 

 Deseret, at lateri semper comes ibit heriii. 

 Sistis iter ? sistit — properas ? velociils Euro 

 Scindit in obliquum campos, &c. 



J. Darcii Ve- 

 nusini Canes. 



5. The following lines from a canine epitaph, " De Mopso fidissirao cane," are 

 not inapposite : 



Custos assiduus domi forisque 

 Nostri principis, et comes fidelis : 



Septem Illust. 

 Vir. Poemata 

 Amst. 1C72. 



