In spring oft roused for their master’s sport,

Who for it makes thy house his court;

Or with thy friends, the heart of all the year,

Divid’st upon the lesser deer;

In autumn, at the partrich mak’st a flight,

And giv’st thy gladder guests the sight;

And in the winter hunt’st the flying hare,

More for thy exercise than fare;

While all that follows, their glad ears apply

To the full greatness of the cry: