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The Animal-Lore of 8hakspeare’s Time. 
The Beagle was another kind of sporting dog. 
Markham speaks of the little beagle, which 
may be carried in a man’s glove, and of— 
“ the little small mitten-beagle, which may be companion for 
a ladies kirtle, and in the field will run as cunningly as any hound 
whatever, only their musick is very small like reeds, and their face 
like their body only for exercise and not for slaughter.” (Jesse, vol. ii. 
p. 330.) 
Much attention was paid to the cry of the pack. 
Hounds were selected, not only for the more useful 
qualities of scent and speed, but for the various tones of 
their voice, ranging from base to treble, so as to form a 
complete choir. Hippolyta replies to her lover’s proposal 
to hunt:— 
“ I was with Hercules and Cadmus one, 
When in a wood of Crete they bay’d the boar 
With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear 
Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, 
The skies, the fountains, every region near 
Seem’d all one mutual cry : I never heard 
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.” 
{Midsummer Night’s Dream , iv. 1, 117.) 
Boderigo complains— 
“ I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that hunts, 
But one that fills up the cry.” 
(Othello , ii. 3, 369.) 
On one occasion the cry of the pack would seem to 
have constituted the chief part of the entertainment. 
Sir John Savile gives an account of festivities on the 
occasion of the arrival of James I. at London. After 
the customary addresses and congratulations had been 
graciously received and acknowledged, his loyal subjects 
proceeded to indulge their sovereign after a somewhat 
cockney fashion, with his favourite recreation of hunting. 
“ From Stamford Hill to London was a train made with a tame 
deer, with such turnings and doubles that the hounds could not take 
