[403] See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 401.
[404] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 65.
[405] “De Proprietate Rerum,” lib. xviii. c. 30.
[406] Cf. Vergil’s description of the wounded stag in “Æneid,” bk. vii.
[407] Commentary on Bartholomæus’s “De Proprietate Rerum.”
[408] The drops which fall from their eyes are not tears from the lachrymal glands, but an oily secretion from the inner angle of the eye close to the nose.—Brewer’s “Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,” p. 217.
[409] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 183.
[410] These dogs were kept for baiting bears, when that amusement was in vogue, and “from their terrific howling they are occasionally introduced to heighten the horror of the picture.” Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 50.
[411] See Kelly’s “Indo-European Folk-Lore,” p. 109.
[412] Henderson’s “Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties,” p. 48.