King. 
Suffolk. 
Gloucester. 
Cardinal, 
Hawks and Hawking 
But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, 
And what a pitch she flew above the rest ! 
To see how God in all His creatures works ! 
Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing 
high. 
No marvel, an it like your majesty, 
My lord Protector’s hawks do tower so well ; 
They know their master loves to be aloft, 
And bears his thoughts above his falcon’s 
pitch. 
My lord, ’tis but a base ignoble mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 
. Believe me, cousin Gloucester, 
Had not your man put up the fowl so 
suddenly 
We had had more sport.! 
Under the general designation of Hawks 
most of our larger birds of prey were em- 
ployed 
for purposes of sport, and it is 
mainly with reference to this use of them 
that they are mentioned by Shakespeare. 
Fatcon, the name most frequently used by 
him, may include several distinct species.? 
12 Henry VI. 1.1. 1-46. 
2 Chaucer alludes to 
The gentil faucon, that with his feet distreyneth 
The Kinges hond, 
Parliament, 337. 
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