Note 213 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Οὐκ ἐπειδὴ τὰ κρέα ἄρα περὶ πολλοῦ ποιητέον ἀνδρὶ ἐς κάλλος κυνηγετοῦντι. And yet we find that the hare’s flesh was in high estimation with epicures of old; and a coursed hare is particularly lauded by Martial among the luxuries of a country table,
L. iii. Epigram. 47.
Leporemque læsum Gallici canis dente.
In our own country, the sportsman was as attentive to supply the hall of banquet with its due portion of the delicate little animal, as the kennel with its appointed halow.
Booke of St. Alban’s.
Thenne the loynes of the haare loke ye not forgete; But brynge theym to the kechyn for the lordes mete—
says the dignified Prioress of Sopewell, in her metrical canons of hunting.
See also “The Venery de Twety and of Mayster John Giffarde.” Fouilloux, p. 69. Turberville, p. 174. and Gervase Markham, C. C. p. 33.