That is the firste worde my sone of Venery.
And when he hath couplyed his houndes echoon
And is forth wyth theym to the felde goon,
And whan he hath of caste his couples at wyll
Thenne he shall speke and saye his houndes tyll
"_Hors de couple avant, sa avant!_" twyse soo:
And then "_So ho, so ho!_" thryes, and no moo.

And then say "_Sacy avaunt, so how_," I thou praye, etc. The
following are a few more specimens--"_Ha cy touz cy est
yll_--_Venez ares sa how sa_--_La douce la eit a venuz_--_Ho
ho ore, swet a lay, douce a luy_--_So how, so how, venez
acoupler!!!_"

Whoever wishes to see these subjects brought down to later
times, and handled with considerable dexterity, may consult
the last numbers of the Censura Literaria, with the
signature J.H. affixed to them. Those who are anxious to
procure the rare books mentioned in these bibliographical
treatises, may be pretty safely taxed with being infected by
the BIBLIOMANIA. What apology my friend Mr. Haslewood, the
author of them, has to offer in extenuation of the mischief
committed, it is _his_ business, and not mine, to consider;
and what the public will say to his curious forthcoming
reprint of the ancient edition of Wynkyn De Worde _on
Hunting, Hawking, and Fishing_, 1497 (with wood cuts), I
will not pretend to divine!

In regard to Hawking, I believe the enterprising Colonel
Thornton in [Transcriber's Note: is] the only gentleman of
the present day who keeps up this custom of "good old
times."

The Sultans of the East seem not to have been insensible to
the charms of Falconry, if we are to judge from the evidence
of Tippoo Saib having a work of this kind in his library;
which is thus described from the Catalogue of it just
published in a fine quarto volume, of which only 250 copies
are printed.

"_Shabbar Nameh_, 4to. a Treatise on Falcony;
containing Instructions for selecting the best species of
Hawks, and the method of teaching them; describing their
different qualities; also the disorders they are subject to,
and method of cure. Author unknown."--Oriental Library of
Tippoo Saib, 1809, p. 96.]

[Footnote 6: Of _Snuff boxes_ every one knows what a
collection the great Frederick, King of Prussia, had--many
o