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O'erruns her at the sitting tura, and licks 



His chaps in vain, and blows upon the flix : 



She 'scapes, and for the neighbouring covert strives. 



And gaining shelter, doubts if yet she lives. 



Pausanias in And again, in the fable of Laelaps, the far-famed " grewnd " of 



Boeoticis. 



c. XIX. Bceotia ; 



Ovid. JMetani. 

 L. VII. vs. 781. 



Golding's 

 Ovid's Metain. 

 Seventh booke. 



J. Darcii Ve- 

 nusini Canes. 



Toiler 60 capioque novi spectacula cursus : 

 Qua modo deprendi, modo se subducere ab ipso 

 Vulnere visa fera est : nee liniite callida recto. 

 In spatiumque fugit; sed decipit ora sequentis, 

 Et redit in gyrum, ne sit suus impetus hosti. 

 Imminet hie, sequiturque pareiu : similisque tenenti 

 Non tenet, et vacuos exercet in a'era morsus. 



I gat me to the knap 

 Of this same hill, and there beheld of this strange course the hap. 

 In which the beaste seemes one while caught, and ere a man would thinke. 

 Doth quickely give the grewnd the slip, and from his biting s^hrinke. 

 And like a wilie foxe he runs not forth directly out, 

 Nor makes a winlas over all the champion fields about, 

 But doubling and indenting still avoydes his enmies lips, 

 And turning short, as swift about as spinning wheele he wips, 

 To disappoint the snatch. The grewnd pursuing at a inch 

 Doth cote him, never loosing ground ; but likely still to pinch, 

 Is at the sudden shifted off : continually he snatches 

 In vaine : for nothing in his mouth save onely aire he catches. 



Nor will the reader of modern Cynegetica forget the vivid sketch of 

 Pterelas's course by the Latin poet of Venusium : 



Ocyiis insequitur Pterelas, cursuque citato 

 Intervalla facit lati decrescere campi. 

 Jam propior propiorque rnicat, jam captat hianti 

 Surama pedum rostro, jam terga fugacia stringit. 

 lUe pavet, flesoque obliquat tramite cursus, 

 Et dubia trepidans formidine, jamque teneri 

 Se putat, et rursiim tangentis ab ore recedit, 

 Fataque momento sibi prorogat, jemula donee 

 Rostra levis mergat miserando in corpore victor, 

 Fulmineus victor, gemino cui tramite lumbos 

 Spina subit graciles, &c. 



The many portraits of these classical and semi-classical Cynege- 

 tica will be fitly closed with the following elegiac verses on a Canis 



