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Chap. XXV. tuins ; aiid when he sees her quite weary, let him slip the puppy 

 close to her, neither before, nor directly opposite to her ; for 

 the bitch rushing right upon her will overshoot herself, and the 

 hare, with a wrench, easily skimming by, will of course leave 

 the bitch far behind ; the latter with difficulty turning herself, 

 as gallies sailing briskly a-head cannot readily tack, unless 

 the rowing be much slackened before they are brought about. 

 Let the hare, therefore, just pass by, and then let him slip 

 obliquely after her. Some one should follow up quickly, as 

 soon as the hare is caught, before the dogs are gorged with her 

 blood. Not that the flesh of a hare is to be accounted of much 

 worth by a person who courses for the beauty of the sport ; ^ 

 but it is a bad thing to teach a greyhound to eat a hare. ^^ 



p. Aug. Bargtei Quaeque adeo multo jamdudum tarda labore 



Lyneg. L. v. Genua trahat, primceve annis incauta juventae 



Continuo sese facili det caede vorandara, 

 Namque animum, si spes olim frustrentur inanes, 

 Ipse suae sibi virtutis male conscius acrem 

 Abjicit, et dubia;, desperat prEemia palmae. 



9. OvK eTretSr) to Hpea 6,pa irfpl iroXKov iron)reou avSpl is KtiWos KVVTjyfTOvvrt. And 

 yet we find that the hare's flesh was in high estimation with epicures of old ; and 

 a coursed bare is particularly lauded by Martial among the luxuries of a country 

 table, 



L. III. Leporemque la;sum Gallici canis dente. 



Epigram. 47. 



In our own country, the sportsman was as attentive to supply the hall of banquet 

 with its due portion of the delicate little animal, as the kennel with its appointed 

 halow. 



Booke of Thenne the loynes of the haare loke ye not forgete ; 



St. Alban's. But brynge theyra to the kechyn for the lordes mete- 



says the dignified Prioress of Sopewell, in her metrical canons of hunting. 



See also '• The Venery de Twety and of Mayster John Giffarde." Fouilloux, p. 69. 

 Turberville, p. 174. and Gervase Markham, C. C. p. 33. 



10. Hotn]phi' /toflrjjuo. It certainly is wrong to allow a greyhound to gorge himself 

 with his game, after he has been sufficiently instructed in the art of killing ; but no 

 puppy should be hastily checked, when he has caught his hare, even though, in the 

 words of old Gervase, " he may breake her." 



