The Merry Wives of Windsor.

[141]. A Hunt's-up

was in old days the Tally-ho blared at daybreak to rouse the chase.

My houndes are bred of Southern kinde,

So flewed, so sanded they;

With crooked knees and dew-laps depe,

With eares the morning dew that sweepe

Slowly they chase their praye;

Their mouths, as tunable as belles

Each under each in concert swells.