Eecords of the Old Charlton Hunt 



in health, yet all his Strength and vigour gone ; 



at Findon, he and Herbert, Sportsman true, 



and Andrew, his most fiiithful Freind, went out 



to Mountain Furres, fatal was the day ! 



A Fox just found ; gett on he cryes I and then, 



that Instant fell, and Life that instant fled. 



and thus llopero dy'd, at Eighty fower 



a quick and sudden death, and in the Feild ; 



could Julius Cesar ere' have wisht for more ? * 



B — ns Great Duke, now him succeeds, in all 



the whole comand of hounds as Grosveneur, 



the Train encreases, and the Sport goes on, 



pleasing were all the DeUan Virgin's Rules, 



and happy was great Georges gentle Reign 



and now Diana's leave first askt, there came, 



from different parts, Sportsmen of difFrent Names, 



from Adrians wall, two Nothern Peers there were 



Montrose — the Duke, and Forester the Lord ; 



with H[oneywoo]d the Gay, and K[ir]k the Grave, 



a stripling too, who to the first was kin 



sedate he was, and sly, and hunting lov'd. 



as visitors, came full many a one, 



of Germans, French, and Irish one, to see 



the Sufsex Sport, or 'tast a Charlton pye. 



then Graftons Duke, and farming Hallifax, 



and W[alpo]lls Lord, and D[elawar]r, once W — st, 



their diffrent Pallaces and. Stables had, 



the gentle soft and meagre J[enniso]n, 



from Humbers banks, on little Toby came. 



G[odolphi]n too, would once essay to see, 



* Assuredly not ! 

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