Mr. Blount's Mss.; Being Selections From the Papers of a Man of the World 2
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I could fancy myself a ranger of the days of old, with hawk, and cross-bow, and bolt, and hound, and green jerkins, and bugle-horns, and hunting-hangers slung in buff baldricks, and all the et ceteras of antient forestrie. By the way, these are the points to which our poets, and laudatores temporis acti, look, and on which they dwell. They say nothing of the peasant thrust from his home, his roof-tree broken, his hearth laid bare, and all the cruel and bloody eifects of the Nor- MR. Blount's ms...s. 197 man forest-laws. Perhaps it is out of re- spect to their descendants, the modern game laws ; which bear the same resemblance to them as a modern lord in Rotten Row does to his ancestor in casque and corslet. The place is only a villa, and therefore not very extensive ; but we have all the ad- vantage of the forest round ; vistas open into it through green alleys, as far as the eye can reach. The house^ too, is admirable ; fitted in the extreme of luxury, not always, perhaps, in the best of taste, but better than I had expected.
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