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Hunting: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Say, thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.— T. S. IND. 2

Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me, the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should, in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gor'd.— A. V. ii. 1

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn. M. N. iv. 1 Uncouple in the western valley; go: Despatch, I say, and find the forester.-

continued. We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top, And mark the musical confusion Of hounds and echo in conjunction.— M. N. iv. 1

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.— M. N. iv. 1