"With hunts up, with huntis up,
It is now perfite day:
Jesus our king is gane in hunting,
Quha likes to speed they may."
It is not improbable that the following was the identical song composed by the person of the name of Gray mentioned in Mr. Ritson's note. It occurs in a collection entitled Hunting, hawking, &c., already cited in the course of the remarks on The merry wives of Windsor. There was likewise a country dance with a similar title.
Cho. { The hunt is up, the hunt is up,
{ Sing merrily wee, the hunt is up;
The birds they sing,
The Deare they fling,
Hey, nony nony-no:
The hounds they crye,
The hunters flye,
Hey trolilo, trololilo.
The hunt is up, ut supra.
The wood resounds
To heere the hounds,
Hey, nony nony-no:
The rocks report
This merry sport,
Hey, trolilo, trololilo.
Cho. { The hunt is up, the hunt is up,
{ Sing merrily wee, the hunt is up.
Then hye apace,
Unto the chase,
Hey nony, nony-no;
Whilst every thing
Doth sweetly sing,
Hey trolilo, trololilo.
Cho. { The hunt is up, the hunt is up,
{ Sing merrily wee, the hunt is up.
Scene 5. Page 496.
Nurse. ... an eagle, madam,
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye.
Besides the authorities already produced in favour of green eyes, and which show the impropriety of Hanmer's alteration to keen, a hundred others might, if necessary, be given. The early French poets are extremely fond of alluding to them under the title of yeux vers, which Mons. Le Grand has in vain attempted to convert into yeux vairs, or grey eyes.[22] It must be confessed that the scarcity, if not total absence of such eyes in modern times, might well have excited the doubts of the above intelligent and agreeable writer. For this let naturalists, if they can, account. It is certain that green eyes were found among the ancients. Plautus thus alludes to them in his Curculio:
"Qui hic est homo
Cum collativo ventre, atque oculis herbeis?"