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is good enough for such a present.” A more frequent quotation is that 
from “‘Macbeth,” iii., 1: “As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, 
curs, shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves are clepped all by the name of 
dogs.” In “King Lear,” iti, 6, we have in another list of dogs “bobtail 
tyke,” cur not being named. Another quotation from “King Lear” is: 
“Thou hast seen a farmer’s dog bark at a beggar?” “Ay, sir.’ “And 
the creature ran from the cur.”’. There is also a very open use of the term 
in that passage wherein so many hounds are named: 
“Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds: ; 
‘Trash [take care of] Merriman, the poor cur is embossed” [tired out]. 
Then.there is the application of the name to a bear dog: 
“Of have I-seen a ‘hot o’érweening cur: - 
Run back and’ bite, because he was withheld;. 
Who, being suffered with the bear’s fell paw, 
Hath clapped his tail between his'legs and cried.” 
Other poets of the Shakespearian period gave even a wider meaning 
to the name than he did. Turberville, who died about 1594, wrote respecting 
hart hunting: ea ade 
“Ah, rueful remedy so that I-(as‘it were)’ ” pe 
Even tear my life out of the teeths of hounds, which make me fear, 
And from those'cruel curs and brain-sick bawling tykes, — 
Which do foot out to'follow me both over hedge and dykes.” 
From Drayton, 1563-1631, we have in his “Dancing Dog”: 
“Then Ball, my cut-tailed cur, and I begin to play. 
He o’er my sheep-hook leaps, now th’one, now th’other way, 
Then on his hinder feet he doth himself: advance, 
I tune, and to my note my lively dog will dance.” 
Cuttail is not infrequently used as the name of a dog. In the “Shep- 
herd’s Sirena” it occurs thus: ‘‘ Whistles Cuttail from his play.” And 
Drayton affords another quotation in “The Mooncalf”: 
“They bring 
. Mastiffs and mongrels, all that in a string 
Could be got’ out, or could lug .a. hog, : 
‘Ball, Eatall, Cuttail, Blackfoot—bitch and dog.” 
In the “Farewell to Whitefoot,” by Drayton, we again have the double 
mention of cur and cuttail: 
“He called his dog (that sometimes had the praise) 
Whitefoot, well known to all that keep the plain, 
That many a wolf had worried in ‘his days, 
A better cur there never followed swain; 
Which, though as he his master’s sorrows knew, 
Wagged his cut tail, his wretched plight to rue.” 
