Thomas Malory Quote

The questing beast…had in shape like a serpent's head and a body like a leopard, buttocked like a lion and footed like a hart. And in his body there was such a noise as it had been twenty couple of hounds questing, and such noise that beast made wheresomever he went.

Questing = yelping

Le Morte D'Arthur (1485) bk. 9, ch. 12


The questing beast…had in shape like a serpent's head and a body like a leopard, buttocked like a lion and footed like a hart. And in his body...

The questing beast…had in shape like a serpent's head and a body like a leopard, buttocked like a lion and footed like a hart. And in his body...

The questing beast…had in shape like a serpent's head and a body like a leopard, buttocked like a lion and footed like a hart. And in his body...

The questing beast…had in shape like a serpent's head and a body like a leopard, buttocked like a lion and footed like a hart. And in his body...