HISTORICAL NOTES 81 



sight, so that you are to make her to sort of Fowl 

 that frequent obscure places, which hinders the 

 Sight which should be your Guide in the Flight ; 

 you must then be very circumspect as to what 

 Place you first enter in, to the End she may be 

 well guarded and kept from taking any Dislike or 

 Offence at the Dogs. 



Having made Choice of the Place to fly your 

 hawk in, be sure to command your Dogs behind 

 you until you have found her, and if she has killed 

 the game, it is sufficient ; if not but you find her 

 on the Ground out of an Eagerness of the Sport, 

 as may well be at the first Entrance, if there be 

 any Tree that she may well see from it, set her 

 thereon, otherwise keep her on your fist, and beat 

 for the pheasant again. Then if she flies and 

 kills it, keep the dogs back until you have found 

 her, and suffer her to plume and take her Pleasure 

 for a Time. Then gently call on your Dogs and 

 walk about her, encouraging her with your voice, 

 and when you see it convenient, stoop to it upon 

 your knees and, rending the Chaps, give her 

 Blood in the Throat, which will please her much, 

 and give her the Head in her Foot to eat, then, 

 having your Dogs, which must be under great 

 control, close by, throw the Pheasant among them 

 that she may, together with some Words of 

 Rebuke from you, make them give Way with 

 Fear unto her. Let her eat it where the Quarry 

 lay, then put on her Hood and reward her, by 

 which Means you will much win her Love to you. 



