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APPENDIX. 



Adriani 

 Cardlnalis 

 Venatio. 



Certaine 



Illustrations, 



&c. p. 25, 



The " venaii<li mille via?" of the Carthaginian poet have been 

 superseded in the British islands by the superior attraction of 

 the gun : 



macliiiiJe, 

 Mirandas, horrificae, ininacis, atrae, 

 Qualem nee Steropes, nee ipse fertur 

 Pater Lemnius inferis cavemis 

 Informksse Jovi, nee uUa in orbe 

 Per tot secula cogitavit setas ; 



and of various eminent breeds of lleet and sagacious dogs, adapted 

 to the chase at force. But as these methods were heretofore 

 employed by our less civilized ancestry, ^ are still in vogue in 

 unreclaimed countries, and many of them yet practised on the 

 continent of Europe— whatever be their " incongruity to our present 

 factions," as Wase expresses himself — a brief description of the 

 " supellex venandi" will not be unacceptable to the modern reader, 



c. III. fol. 21. 



c. IV. ful. 25. 



Venatus non ille quidem, verum arma creatis 

 Venandi tribuit : catulos nutrire sagaces, 

 Et genus a proavis, mores numerare per artes, 

 Retiaque, et valida venabula cuspide fixa, 

 Lentaque contextis formare hastilia nodis, 

 Et quodcumque solet venandi poscere cura 

 In proprios fabricare dabit venalia qufestus. 



1. We have the authority of the most ancient record of British field spoils, called 

 j'ttagfitfr of (fliaitir. (a curious manuscript in the British Museum,) for tlie general 

 use of much of the classic furniture of the chase in France and England five centuries 

 ago. Let the reader compare the following with the Greek and Latin Cynegetica : 

 " Of the Hare, and the methods of taking her. Men slee hares with greyhoundes 

 and with rennynghoundes by strengthe, as inEngelond; but ellis where thei slee hem 

 with smale pocketes and wt p'suetes and wt smale nettis, with hare pipes and with 

 long nettis and with smale cordes that men casten where thei mak here brekyng of 

 the smale twygges whan thei goon to hure pasture," &c.— " Of the Hertc. Men 

 taken hem with houndis, with greyhoundis, with nettis, and with cordes, and with 

 other harnays ; with puttes and with shott, and with other gynnes, and with 

 strengthe, as y shal say here after," <Slc. Almost all the instruments of this royal 

 armoury, the fruits of De Langley's extensive experience at home and abroad, and as 

 such recorded in his hunting manual, have their counterparts in the works of Xeno- 

 phon, Gratius, Oppian, and Nemesian. 



