Editing Beagle (section)

==References==
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'''a.''' {{Note label|A|a|none}} In this article "Beagle" (with a capital B) is used to distinguish the modern breed from other beagle-type dogs.

'''c.''' {{Note label|C|c|none}} The Harts posed the following question to a panel of 96 experts, half of which were veterinary surgeons and the other half dog obedience trial judges:<br />
{{quote|A dog may normally be quite calm but can become very excitable when set off by such things as a ringing doorbell or an owner's movement toward the door. This characteristic may be very annoying to some people. Rank these seven breeds from least to most excitable.}}

'''d.''' {{Note label|D|d|none}} The specific references in each of the author's works are as follows:<br />
Shakespeare: "''Sir Toby Belch'': She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me: what o' that?" ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (c. 1600) Act II Scene III <br />
Webster: "''Mistress Tenterhook''': You are a sweet beagle" ''[[Westward Ho (play)|Westward Ho]]'' (1607) Act III Scene IV:2<br />
Dryden: "The rest in shape a beagle's whelp throughout, With broader forehead and a sharper snout" ''The Cock and the Fox'', and again: "About her feet were little beagles seen" in ''Palamon and Arcite'' both from ''[[Fables, Ancient and Modern]]'' (1700)<br />
Tickell: "Here let me trace beneath the purpled morn, The deep-mouth'd beagle, and the sprightly horn" ''To a Lady before Marriage'' (published posthumously in 1749)<br />
Fielding: "'What the devil would you have me do?' cries the Squire, turning to Blifil, 'I can no more turn her, than a beagle can turn an old hare.'" ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' (1749) Chapter 7.<br />
Cowper: "For persevering chase and headlong leaps, True beagle as the staunchest hound he keeps" ''The Progress of Error'' (1782)<br />
Pope: "Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart" ''The Iliad of Homer'' (1715–20) Book XV:697–8
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