The Shooter's Hand-book: Being the Treatise on Shooting from "The Rod and the Gun," |
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Page 22 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 13 - Hawks use that most, and it yields us most recreation ; it stops not the high soaring of my noble generous Falcon ; in it she ascends to such an height, as the dull eyes of beasts and fish are not able to reach to...
Page 17 - You shall true Liege-Man be Unto the King's Majesty : Unto the Beasts of the FOREST you shall no hurt do^ Nor to any Thing that doth belong thereunto : The Offences of others you shall not conceal, But to the utmost of your Power, you shall them reveal Unto the OFFICERS of the FOREST, Or to them who may see them redrest : All these things you shall see done, So help you GOD, at his HOLY DOOM ! There is something attractive to the imagination associated with the history of the ancient British forests.
Page 38 - GOD prosper long our noble king, Our lives and safeties all ; A woful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befall. To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took his way ; The child may rue that is unborn The hunting of that day.
Page 39 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Page 13 - Falcon; in it she ascends to such an height, as the dull eyes of beasts and fish are not able to reach to; their bodies are too gross for such high elevations : in the air my troops of Hawks soar up on high, and when they are lost in the sight of men, then they attend upon and converse with the Gods ; therefore I think my Eagle is so justly stiled Jove's servant in ordinary...
Page 18 - A forest is a certain territory of woody grounds and fruitful pastures privileged for wild beasts and fowls of the forest, chase and warren, to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the king...
Page 39 - I thought he would not come, No longer would I stay ;'' With that a brave young gentleman Thus to the Earl...