78 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS, 



These are the huntsman's arts, above the reach 

 Of pedant learning and the schools to teach. 

 These Hoitt taught by practice, not by rale, 

 And Nature's great Lyceum was his school. 



An Insceiption ox a Tombstone in the Churchyard of Wootton 

 AYawex, in Warwickshire. 



Hie Jacobus Boeter, 



Gulielmo Somerville Armigero 



Promus, et Canibus venaticis Propositus, 



Domi Forisq fidelis. 



Equo inter venandum corruente 



Et intestinis graviter collisis, 



Post triduum deplorandus obiit. 



{Translated as inider hij Mr. 3Ioo(J//, Caisfor.) 



Here lies the body of James Boeter, 



Butler to Wm. Somerville, Esq. 



Huntsman to his hounds, and a faithful 



Steward of his household affairs. 



He was thrown from his horse whilst 



Out a-hunting, and so bruised inwardly 



That after three days' languishing he died 



Much respected. 



Spoken Extempore by the Author upon having sold his Poem, 

 "The Chase," for a Pipe of Wine. 



Inspir'd by wine, I scribble and I print, 



The fruit of my poetic vein 



In generous wine returns again. 

 If I want wit or wine — the Devil's in't. 



The following is the inscription on the cup given by the Right Hon. 

 Lord Yarborough to his late huntsman, Thos. Smith. His lordship 

 sent it up by his grandson, Master C. A. Pelham — at least, the footman 

 brought it up, and Master Pelham presented it to my father, the good 

 old lord riding about the lawn till Master Pelham returned. 



The verse on the cup being selected from that excellent poem, 

 Somerville's " Chase," I place this memorandum at the end of the 

 verses, epitaphs, etc., on his huntsmen. On one side of the cup is the 

 following, and on the other the verse : — 



" The gift of Lord Yarborough to his huntsman, Mr. Thomas Smith, 

 after having been more than fifty-eight years in his service, made as an 

 acknowledgment of that indefatigable and unremitting attention to the 



