Horns, The

DESCRIPTION: "Aurora's (morning's) blush the East adorns, now quit, my friends, the genial bed" to hunt a "beast" "with horns." "Tally-ho, my boys, the horns forever." Hear the bugle; see the hung; follow the "beast"
AUTHOR: possibly Charles Armiger
EARLIEST DATE: 1831 (Armiger, The Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet)
KEYWORDS: hunting nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 263-264, "The Horns" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Charles Armiger, _The Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet_, T. Griffiths, London, 1831 (available on Google Books), p. 233, "(no title)" (1 text)
Roud #15004
NOTES [100 words]: Armiger gives this no title; the index simply cites it by first line. It is in the part of the index devoted to "stag-hunting." Did Armiger write it? I don't know; he seems to imply that he compiled rather than wrote his anthology, but he lists no titles, and the book has dozens of references to "Aurora" (a reference replaced by "morning" in Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania; presumably someone didn't know what Aurora was!). I would guess that most of the Aurora pieces are by the same author, but there is no way to know who it is.
Since Armiger gives no title, I've used Shoemaker's. - RBW
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