90 SPORT IN SHAKESPEARE 



'•' It could not be judged," which I take 

 to mean that the fallow dog had run an 

 undecided course. 



Of shootino-, both with the lono- and cross- 

 bow, we have, of course, plenty. In Love s 

 Labour Lost we have an accurate descrip- 

 tion of deer shooting as It w^as practised, 

 amongst others, by Queen Elizabeth, but we 

 are not told If the deer killed by the Princess 

 was driven past her by dogs or beaters. 

 There Is also an amusing dispute between 

 Sir Nathaniel and Holofernes as to whether 

 It was "a pricket," i.e. a three-year-old, or 

 "a buck of the first head," that Is, a five-year 

 old, or, as we say nowadays, In the New 

 Forest, "a warrantable deer." 



In that woodland drama As Yon Like it 

 we have, of course, a o^ood deal about 

 deer shooting, but nothing especially worth 



