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Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, / That costs thy life, my gallant grey.
1833, Sporting Magazine, volume 6, page 400:
Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.
From Old Norsegrey, from Proto-Germanic*grawją, cognate with Faroesegroyggj. Original meaning -meager dog (greyhound), whereas in English the semantic developed to simply a lean dog, this was transferred mostly from the dogs all together to mean a -poor little thing - a poor person. the semantic change to something poor has already taken place in the old language.