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APPENDIX. 



Encyc.Method. quently signifies a champaign-dog, un levrier de plaine, a hound 

 ^* Vao**^' adapted for coursing over an open country. 



The Vertagus, or Tumbler, (" quod se, dum praedatur, vertat," 

 &c.) I scarce need observe, has no affinity whatever with the ovep- 

 rpayos kvwv of Arrian. By Dr. Caius, in his Libellus de Canibus 

 Britannicis, he is fully described ; nor are his tricks forgotten by 

 the Latin poet of Caen ; 



Jac. Savary 



Alb. Dianas 



Leporicid^. 



p. 5. 



Seque volutantes, ludisque cuniculum aroicis 

 Fallentes, prasdae colluHentesque futurae, 

 Informal catulos Angli solertia nanos. 



The files of classical antiquity afford no counterpart to the British 

 Tumbler, unless it be in the Vertagus of Martial — a dog already 

 allotted to the Celtic family, as, in some copies of the epigramma- 

 tist, written Vertragus. 



It remains for me to mention the distinctions which have been 

 made by naturalists in the greyhound type of our own islands, i and 



Propliesia 

 Tboriiae de 

 Erseldoun. 



Rhymer, the earliest of Scottish poets, has ruches in the retinue of his elfin queen — 

 " and raches cowpled by her ran" — and again in Sir Tristrem (Fytte 3rd.). " Raches 

 with hem thai lede." See Scott's Glossary, in loco. 



The old metrical charter, granted by the Confessor to Cholmer and Dancing in 

 Essex, reads — 



Four greyhounds, and six braches 

 For hare, fox, and wild cattes. 



Book of 

 St. Albar.'s. 



The Prologue. 

 vs. 1<J0. 



Booke I. 



And the words rache and brache are of frequent occurrence in the jMagStcr of ffiatHC, 

 the Book of St. Alban's, and our early poets. See Blount's Ancient Tenures, pp. 2. 

 26. and 104. 



1. The term greyhound has confounded English etymologists as much as that of 

 Vertragus has puzzled Latin commentators. It is variously spelt by our old 

 English writers : as grehounde by Juliana Berners, " a grehounde sholde be heeded 

 lykeasnake" — greihounde hy Chaucet, " greihoundes be hadde as swift as foul of 

 flight." Lord Berners writes ^' gray hound e ;" Junius, "graihound;" Gesner, 

 " grewhownd ;" Harrington, " grewnd ;" and the latter contraction is of frequent 

 occurrence in Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 



And even as when the greedy grewnde doth course the sillie hare, 

 Amiddes the plaine and champion fielde without all covert bare. 



