334 '^^^^ Poets' Beasts. 



O'er hill and dale ; till, wakened by the wasp, 

 They starting snap." 



The poor man's dog, that shares the proverbial crust 

 with its master; the bUnd man's dog, which alone of all 

 their kind other dogs respect ; the dancing dog — all these, 

 and others, find their poets. How too can I omit Gold- 

 smith's mad dog. 



" And in that town a dog was found, 



As many dogs there be, 

 Both mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound 



And curs of low degree. 

 This dog and man at first were friends ; 



But when a pique began, 

 The dog, to gain his private ends, 



Went mad, and bit the man." 



Of the individual animals known to fame the list that our 

 poets immortalise is very long. 



Lufra, Cavall, " King Arthur's hound of deepest-mouth," 

 Luath, Beth-gelert, Berezillo (who drew the full allowance 

 of a soldier in the Spanish army), Bran, Herod, Tray, Fop, 

 Beau, Blanch, Sweetheart, " St. Hubert's breed ; " His High- 

 ness' dog at Kew — the hounds of Actason "that knew him 

 naught," 



" Those mistaken hounds of yore. 



That for the slag their master tore " — 



and of Adonis and Diana, " this goddess on an hart full 

 high sate, withsmall hounds all about her feet " (Chaucer) ; 

 Geryon and Cerberus ; Malaia's dog ; the dogs of Lazarus, 

 of Tobit, as in Quarles — 



" What luck has Tobii's dog ! what grace ! what glory ! 

 Thus to be kennelled in eternal s-tory ! 

 Until th' Apocrypha and .Scripture sever 

 The mem'ry of Tobii's dog shall live for ever " — 



and of Jezrccl, an interminable scries. 



