With ears that sweep away the morning dew;

Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;

Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells

Each under each. A cry more tuneable

Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,

In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:

Judge when you hear."

GARDEN AT NEW PLACE

The talk of the hunters about the dogs in The Taming of the Shrew (ind. 1. 16) is in the same vein:—