APPENDIX. 



In introducing to the reader's notice the Canes Venatici of the 

 following monograph — wherein the embellishment of fable is often 

 admitted as the language of truth, and amusement is paramount to 

 instruction — it must not be expected that I should carry back the 

 history of the chase to the early period of the world's annals, when 



harmony, and family accord, 

 Were driven from Paradise ; 



and man's subject creatures revolted from their revolted lord — 



Ktt\ Brjpes aiSovs a.yvafi]<xavres vSfiovs, 



us Svafteinj (pevyovai rhv irplv SiffirSTTiv — 



the probable date of its institution — (" cum peccato enim animalium 

 noxa simul et persecutio et fuga subintravit, et artes venationum 

 excogitatai sunt,") — nor to the later epoch of its Phenician origin, 

 maintained by Polydore Vergil on the authority of Eusebius ; nor 

 its more fabulous Theban birth and distribution, the thrice-told 

 tale of John of Salisbury : ^ but rather consider hunting as an art of 

 acquisition and self-defence of remote and undefined antiquity. 



Cowper's 

 'Taik. B. VI, 



Phil, de 



Animal. 



Propriet. vs. 8. 



Agrippa de 



Incert. et Van. 



Sc. et Art. 



0. LXXII. 



De Invent. 



Rerum. L. in. 



c. V. 



Euseh. de 



Praep. Evang. 



L.I. 



]. To Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, and his Origin of the Chase, reference is else- 

 where given. Identical with his view of its rise, progress, and demerit, is that of 

 Joannes Sarisberiensis, in his Policraticus, De Venatici et autoribus et speciebus ejus, 

 et exercitio licito et illicito. " Et piimi quidem Thebani," says John, (who wrote 



