88 .U EPITAPH ^*FOfi\I OF T.HK GREYHOUND. 



which in very high flown language , contradicted the malicious story which had 

 been circulated, of his ill treatment of the Dutchess ; a conduct so alien to his feel- 

 ings, derogatory, to his honour as a gentleman, and so contrary to his well-known 

 habits, that he was confident no member of polished society would give it the 

 slightest credit ! If this original piece reached the eyes of the laughter -loving and 

 mutton-eating King, no doubt it afforded his appetite for mirth fresh food. But 

 Dnval's honourable and polite mode of doing the road business, could not save him 

 from the usual ending-post in that honourable course, the Nubbing-chit ; and he 

 was condemned to be drawn at full length thereon, maugre his strenuous pleas 

 that, he never murdered or maimed any one, in the course of a number of cam- 

 paigns, nor ever injured Christian man or woman, otherwise than by easing them 

 of the load of their money. His friends begged his body for interment, and it is 

 recorded that, the following Epitaph was engraved upon a small stone erected to 

 his memory, in one of the Church-yards of London, and actually suffered to remain 

 for a number of years, until removed, to use the language of the Memoir, by the 

 zeal of certain puritanical Churchwardens. 



fjflt V: 

 Here lies Duval : reader, if male thou.art, 



Look to thy purse: if female, to thy heart. 



Much havoc he did make among you all, 



The men he made to stand, the women fall. 



A second Conqueror of the Norman race, 



Knights to bis arms did yield, and ladies to his face. 



i f M /"r -XT i i t,- r 'j. i. 



Duval was born of a genteel family near Cayenne in Normandy, and his Epitaph 

 was generally attributed to the Poetess Afra, the well-known Mrs. Afra Behn. 



The Italian Greyhound has full as good a title to the following characteristics of 

 form, drawn up so many ages since, by the noble and sporting Authoress Juliana 

 Berners, as any of the species at the present time- 

 Head like a Snake, 

 Neck like a Drake, 

 Back like a Bream, 

 Tail like a Rat, 

 Foot like a Cat. 



It has been said that, the Italian Greybound, in external appearance, perfectly 

 resembles the English breed, but that it is constitutionally and utterly deficient in 

 sagacity, fortitude, or the common means of self defence, and altogether inapplicable 

 to any other uses, than such as, the * comforts of the tea table, the fire side carpet, 

 the luxurious indulgences of the sopha, and the warm lap of the mistress.' There 

 is certainly truth in most of this ; but whether the following observation be cor- 

 rect, we have hitherto neglected to essay it is averred, if this delicate hound be 



