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Chap. XVI. On this point alone I cannot agree with my namesake. 

 I allow indeed that a man may forget every other object of 

 which he is enamoured, when he sees a hare found, and pur- 

 sued at speed ; ^ but to see her taken is, I own, neither a 

 pleasant nor striking spectacle ; but disagreeable rather, and 

 not at all likely to make us forgetful of other objects of attach- 

 ment. ^" And yet we must not blame Xenophon, considering 



in indication of sudden grief and vexation. Priam is fearfully apprehensive of 

 Hector's death, and strikes his head with sorrow : 



Iliad. XXII. 



Ki<pa\r]v 6' 076 K(5i|'aTo x^pcii' 



v4'0(t' acacrxo'jUfos. 



Herodot. 

 Thalia. 



Psammetichus expresses his grief in the same way over the rich Egyptian monarch, 

 reduced to mendicancy in his old age, iirXTj^aTo riju K€^oAV — ^^^ Plutarch tells us 

 that Solon began iraUiv ri)P KecpaXrjv koI t' &\Xa woiuv koI \eyetv, & crvfj.fiaii'ei rdis 

 trepnradovffi, as soon as he heard of the death of his son. 



9. The joys of the hare-chase have been celebrated, in prose and verse, by the 

 successors of the Athenian, in even higher strains than by himself : 



Natalis Comes 



de Venat. 



L. 11. 



Tantus amor lepores venandi, gaudia tanta ! 

 HJc mens, hie animus, hic est et tota voluntas ! 

 Prseponunt reliquis una haec solatia cunctis ! 



fHagstrr of 

 ifSanif. 



fol. 17. 18. 



" The hare is a good lityl beest and moch good sport and lyking is the huntyng of hur 

 more than in eny othere beest that eny man knoweth, &c." " the sechyns for the 

 hare is a wel faire thing, and the enchasyng of the hare is a wel faire thing, and the 

 sleyng of hym with strength is a faire thing," &c. 



The latter, it is singular, are the very sentiments of Xenophon, reprobated by 

 Arrian ; and the passage affords one of many proofs of De Langley's acquaintance 

 with the Grecian Cyuegeticus. See Markhain C. C. B. i. p. 33. and Soraerville's 

 Chace. « 



10. See Xenophon Cyneg. v. 33. Arrian has spoken throughout his treatise 

 with the greatest respect of his predecessor's opinions ; but ventures to differ from 

 him in this place, as to the feelings which the poor hare, when caught, should 

 excite — 



Sophoclis 

 Ajax. 1011. 



a\yiffToi', Siv irpoatihov 6cp6a\/ji.o7s iyu- 



