Note 72 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
Chronique de Froissart, and note to Johnnes’s Transl. V. iv. 657.
It is generally believed that greyhounds have very weak attachments; and the fickle companions of Charles de Blois and of Richard II. favour such an opinion. But against these well-known examples of canine infidelity, we may place others of extraordinary attachment to their lords; at the head of which let Hormé stand, πρᾳοτάτη καὶ φιλανθρωποτάτη, the beloved and affectionate hound of the founder of the leash:
Natalis Comes de Venat. L. i.
Possem multa canum variorum exempla referre, Ni pigeat studium parvarum noscere rerum.
To the tales of inviolable attachment recorded by the royal pen of Edmund Duke of York, of Mayster of Game, c. xii. fol. 47-49.“the greihounde boothe good and faire of Kyng Apollo of Lyonnys,” and the “wel good and faire greihounde that was Aubries of Mondidert,” the reader is referred for farther examples; nor should he forget the martyr Charles’s dying eulogy of the Celtic hound.
Vide J. C. Scaliger de Subtil. ad Card. Exerc. ccii. the last of the Historiæ Duæ Nobilissimæ;, sect. 6.