"AND this meanwhile there came Sir Palomides, the good knight,

following the Questing Beast that had in shape a head like a
serpent's head, and a body like a leopard, buttocks like a lion,
and footed like an hart; and in his body there was such a noise
as it had been the noise of thirty couple of hounds questing, and
such a noise that beast made wheresomever he went; and this beast
ever more Sir Palomides followed, for it was called his quest. "

Le Morte d'Arthur BOOK IX, Sir Thomas Malory