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to turn fuch agony into fport !) his reverence 

 for man is gone : he is driven to defpair ; and 

 all his powers are colleded into terror and 

 undiflinguifhing fury. 



Some years ago, a ftag in New-foreft, 

 prefTed by the hunters, and jufl entering a 

 thicket, v^^as oppofed by a peafant ; who 

 foolifhly, with his arms extended, attempted 

 to turn him. The ftag held his courfe, and 

 darting one of his antlers into the man, carried 

 him off fome paces, fticking upon his horn. 

 The man was immediately conveyed to 

 Lymington, where he lay dangeroufly ill for 

 fome time ; but at length recovered. I have 

 heard alfo, that when the duke of Bedford, 

 was lord-warden of the foreft, his huntfman 

 had a horfe killed under him by a ftag, which 

 he crofted in the fame imprudent manner. 



We have a beautiful defcription in Shake- 

 fpear, which I cannot forbear introducing, 

 both for the fake of the pidture ; and for the 

 knowledge it conveys. The forrows of the 

 dying ftag — his fighs ; his tears ; and the 

 unfriendly return his diftreffes find from all his 

 former companions, are circumftances in his 

 hiftory well-known to the naturalift, the 



forefter. 



