Some Account of English Deer Parks: With Notes on the Management of Deer

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J. Murray, 1867 - 267 páginas

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Página ii - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it : Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ? " "I believe not,
Página 46 - The hunt generally comes off in this way : the huntsmen remain on the spot where the game is to be found, with twenty or thirty dogs ; if the King fancies any in particular among the herd, he causes his pleasure to be signified to the huntsmen, who forthwith proceed to mark the place where the animal stood ; they then lead the dogs thither, which are taught to follow this one animal only, and accordingly away they run straight upon his track ; and even should there be forty or fifty deer together,...
Página 40 - Highnesse musicians placed, and a crossebowe by a Nymph, with a sweet song, delivered to her hands, to shoote at the deere, about some thirtie in number, put into a paddock, of which number she killed three or four, and the Countesse of Kildare one.
Página 71 - Thou hast thy walks for health, as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made, Beneath the broad beech and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth where all the Muses met.
Página 39 - Highness, and . . . not only to show his Highness the splendid royal castle at Windsor, but also to amuse him by the way with shooting and hunting red-deer ; for you must know that in the vicinity of this same place Windsor, there are upwards of sixty parks which are full of game of various kinds, and they are so contiguous, that in order to have a glorious and royal sport the animals can be driven out of one enclosure into another, and so on ; all which enclosures are encompassed by fences.
Página 40 - In the first inclosure his Highness shot off the leg of a fallow-deer, and the dogs soon after caught the animal. In the second, they chased a stag for a long time backwards and forwards with particularly good hounds, over an extensive and delightful plain; at length his Highness shot him in front with an English crossbow, and this deer the dogs finally worried and caught.
Página 17 - Albiniaco earl of Arundel, in the court of the lord the king at Leicester. And if any wild beast, wounded by any of the aforesaid bows, shall enter the aforesaid park by any deer-leap or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the aforesaid Roger de Somery and his heirs to send one man or two of his, who shall follow the aforesaid wild beast, with the dogs pursuing that wild beast within the aforesaid park, without bow and arrows, and...
Página 7 - Cathedral attired in their sacred vestments, and wearing garlands of flowers on their heads: and the horns of the buck carried on the top of a spear, in procession, round about within the body of the church, with a great noise of hornblowers, as the learned Camden, upon his own view of both, affirmeth.
Página 59 - ... their utmost speed, and not only kept his seat gracefully, in spite of every effort of the affrighted beast, but drawing his sword, with it guided him towards the Queen, and coming near her presence plunged it in his throat, so that the animal fell dead at her feet.
Página 29 - The kings forrests have innumerable heards of red deare, and all parts have such plenty of fallow deare, as every gentleman of five hundred or a thousand pounds rent by the yeere hath a parke for them inclosed with pales of wood for two or three miles compasse.

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