Ye shall be set at such a tryst,
That hert and hynde shall come to your fyst.
He then commends the music of the bugle-horn—
To here the bugles there yblow
With theyr bugles in that place,
And seven score raches at his rechase
He also assures her that she should have—
A lese of herhounds with her to strake.
The harehound, or greyhound, was considered as a very valuable present in former times, [155] and especially among the ladies, with whom it appears to have been a peculiar favourite; and therefore in another metrical romance, probably more ancient than the former, called "Sir Eglamore," [156] a princess tells the knight, that if he was inclined to hunt, she would, as an especial mark of her favour, give him on excellent greyhound, so swift that no deer could escape from his pursuit—