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Proteus. But she received my dog? 
Launce. No, indeed did she not: here have I 
brought him back again. 
Proteus. What, didst thou offer her this from me ? 
Lci7mce . Ay, sir; the other squirrel was stolen from 
me by the hangman boys in the market-place : and 
then I offered her mine own ; who is a dog as big as 
ten of yours, and therefore the gift the greater. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. Scene 3 ; 
Act iii. Scene 1 ; Act iv. Scene 4. 
Slender. How does your fallow greyhound, sir? 
Sle?ider. Why do your dogs bark so? be there 
bears i’ the town ? 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. Scene 1. 
Theseus. Go one of you, find out the forester ; 
For now our observation is perform’d; 
And since we have the vaward of the day, 
My love shall hear the music of my hounds. 
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go : 
Dispatch, I say, and find the forester. 
We will, fair queen, up to the mountain’s top, 
And mark the musical confusion 
Of hounds and echo in conjunction. 
Hippolyta . I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, 
When in a wood of Crete they bay’d the bear 
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. 
Theseus. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan 
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