76 DOG. Class I. 



The variety called the Highland gre-houndj 

 and now become very scarce, is of a very great 

 size, strong, deep chested, and covered with 

 long and rough hair. This kind was much 

 esteemed in former days, and used in great 

 numbers by the powerful chieftains in their 

 magnificent hunting matches. It had as saga- 

 cious nostrils as the Bloodhound, and was as 

 fierce. This seems to be the kind Boethius 

 styles, genus ve?iaticum cum celerrimum turn 

 audacissimum : nee modo in /eras, sed in hostes 

 etiam latronesque ; pr&sertim si dominum 

 ductoremve injuriam affici cemat aut in eos, 

 concitetur. 



The third species is the Levinarius, or Lora- 

 rius ; the Leviner or Lyemmer : the first name 

 is derived from the lightness of the kind ; the 

 other from the old word Lyemme, a thong : this 



pieds sur le col, et le commenca moult grandement a cherir, le 

 due de Lenclastre qui point ne cognoissoit ce levrier, demanda 

 au Roy, et que veult ce levrier faire, cousin, dist le Roy, ce 

 vous est une grant signifiance et a moy petite. Comment dist 

 due lentendez vous. Je lentends dist le Roy, le levrier vous fes- 

 toye et receult au jourdhuy comme Roy d' Angleterre que vous 

 serez et ien seray depose, et le levrier en a cognoissance natu- 

 relle. Si le tenez deles vous, car il vous suyura et meslongera. 

 Le due de Lenclastre entendit bien ceste parolle et fist chere au 

 levrier le quel oncques depuis ne voulut suyvre Richard de Bour- 

 deaulx suyvit le due de Lenclastre. Chronicaue de Froissart, 

 torn. iv. fueillet72. Edition de Paris, 1530. 



