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Each under each. A cry more tuneable 

 Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn." 



Act. iv. Sc. 1. 



In the Comedy of Errors (Act iv. Sc. 2), Dromio of 

 Syracuse alludes to " a hound that runs counter, and yet 

 draws dry foot well," and in the Taming of the Shrew 

 we have the following animated dialogue : — 



" Lord. Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good 

 At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault ? 

 I would not lose the dog for twenty pound. 

 Httntsman. Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord ; 

 He cried upon it at the merest loss, 

 And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent : 

 Trust me, I take him for the better dog." 



Many more such instances might be adduced, but the 

 reader might perhaps be tempted to exclaim, with Timon 

 of Athens : — 



" Get thee away, and take thy beagles with thee." 



Act iv. Sc. 3. 



We will therefore only glance at that amusing scene 

 in the Merry Wives of Windsor (Act v. Sc. 5), where 

 Falstaff appears in Windsor Forest, disguised with a 

 buck's head on. "Divide me," says he, "like a brib'd- 

 buck, each a haunch : I will keep my sides to myself, 

 my shoulders for the fellow of this walk, and my horns 

 I bequeath your husbands." 



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