“The dusky night rides down the sky,
And ushers in the morn;
The hounds all join in glorious cry,
The huntsman winds his horn,
And a-hunting we will go.”

— Henry Fielding

A-Hunting We Will Go (1734), st. 1

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English novelist and dramatist 1707–1754

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