The Chase Author:William Somerville Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ARGUMENT. Of the power of inftinft in brutes. Two remarkable inftances in the hunting of the roebuck, and in the hare going to feat in the morning. Of the var... more »iety of feats or forms of the hare, according to the change of the feafon, weather, or wind. Defcription of the hare-hunting in all its parts, interfperfed with rules to be obferved by. thofe who follow that chafe. Tranfition to the Asiatic way of hunting, particularly the magnificent manner of the Great Mogul, and other TarTarian princes, takt'ti from Monfieur Bernier, and the hiftory of Gknciskan the Great. Concludes with a fhort reproof of tyrants and oppreffors of mankind. chapter{Section 4THE CHASE. BOOK II. I OR will it lefs delight th' attentive fage T' obferve that inftinft, which unerring guides The brutal race, which mimics reafon's lore And oft tranfcends: Heav'n-taught the roe-buck fwift Loiters at eafe before the driving pack, 5 And mocks their vain purfuit, nor far he flies But checks his ardour, till the (learning fcent That frefhensi on the blade, provokes their rage. Urg'd to their fpeed, his weak deluded foes g Soon flag fatigued ; ftrain'd to excefs each nerve, Each flacken'd finew fails ; they pant, they foam ; Then o'er the lawn he bounds, o'er the high hills Stretches fecure, and leaves the fcatter'd crowd To puzzle in the diftant vale below. 'Tis inftinft that directs the jealous hare 15 To choofe her foft abode : with ftep revers'd She forms the doubling maze ; then, ere the morn Peeps thro' the clouds, leaps to her clofe recefs. As wand'ring fhepherds on th' Arabian plains No fettled refidence obferve, but fhift 20 Their moving camp, now, on fome copier hill "With cedars crown'd, court the refrefhing breeze; And then, below, where trickling ftreams diftil From f...« less