ON COUKSINC. 



15: J 



touth.* For all which reasons, in my opinion, a really tiood, Cum'. XXXII. 

 hioli-bred doc; is u irreat treasure^ — one that falls not to the lot 



We can rarely, if ever, say of any greyliound, after he has run two seasons, what 



Sliiillotc says of Page's fallow greyhound, who " was out-run on Cotsale :"— " He Merry Wives 



is a good clog, and a fair dog ; can there be more said ? he is good, and fair." So 



soon does tlie fleetest dog begin to n)ake up by cunning what he wants in willingness 



to work. 



-1. "k^^evfs 5€ Koi €s SeVoTOf hacpvXaTrovaiv. Our author is here at issue with 

 Juliana ]$erners, wlio says of tlie greyhound in his ninth year, 



of VViiidsor. 



Act 



And whan he is comyn to that yere. 

 Have hym to the tannere ; 

 For the beste hounde that ever bytche had, 

 At nynthe yere he is full badde. 



Book of 



St. Alban's. 



149G. 



Indeed, it is incredible, however great may have been his youthful vigour, that any 

 dog should retain his full speed till the tenth year ; a period at vk'liich all the hodily 

 powers begin to feel the gradual approach of infirmity, at which many dogs die appa- 

 rently of natural decay, and all are incapacitated for strenuous exertion. " Canes 

 Laconici," says Pliny, " vivunt annis denis, fceminas duodenis, caetera genera quin- 

 decim annos, aliquando viginti." Instances of the latter protracted period are very 

 rare. I never knew a greyhound to reach the memorable age of the Homeric 

 Argus — 



"Apyov 5' ail Kara y-olp i\a^ev (leXavos davdroio, 

 avTiK iS6vT 'Oivffrja ieLKOffTu iviavr^. 



Odyss. xvir. 

 * 320. 



Short is their span ; few at the date arrive 



Of ancient Argus, in old Homer's song 



So highly lionour'd ; kind, sagacious brute ! 



The Chace. 

 B. IV. 



See ^lian de Nat. Animal. Buffon Hist. Natur. and Lord Bacon Hist. Vitje et 

 Mortis. 



5. Me'^a fioi SoKfi rh KTTJfia &^pr]i> kvuv ry a.\T]dfla •yevvalos. Such in the annals of 

 British coursing wasTopham's Snowball, and such Bate Dudley's Millar ! 



Tu quos ad studium venandi legeris, et quos 

 Dixeris hinc comites cursus, cajdisque ferarum, 

 Quaere mares : maribus major vis est animusque, 

 Et melius tolerare valent certamina longa. 



Natalis Comes 



de Venation^ 



L.I. 



G. Kal ovK &i^fv Oiwu tov eunevdas, K. r. \. With Schneider's sanction, I have 

 united the 33rd Chapter of the first and second editions of the Greek text with the 



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