Careful Words

hound (n.)

hound (v.)

  I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.

John Lyly (Circa 1553-1601): Euphues, 1579 (Arber's reprint), page 107.

Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim,

Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,

Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 6.

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.