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biting, stroking her evermore as before said with your sticke. 

 But if it happen (as it doth sometimes) that your chance be to 

 have a Falcon so ramage and shewde-mettled, that she will not 

 leave her snapping and biting, then take a dose of Garlicke 

 cleane pilled, or a little aloes cicatrina, and when she byteth or 

 snappeth at your hand or stick, offer her the Garlicke or aloes, 

 and let her bite it, for either the strong sent of the Garlicke or 

 the bitter taste of the aloes will quickly make her leave off 



"And here I thinke good to expresse mine opinion, that hee 

 which taketh in hand to be a Falconer, ought first to be very 

 patient and therwithall to take singular delight in a Hawke, so 

 that hee may seeme to bee in love (as it were naturally) with his 

 Hawke. For hee which taketh not that delight, but doth rather 

 exercise it for a pompe and a boast, in mine opinion, shall 

 seldome prove a perfect Falconer, but a mar-hawke, and shall 

 beare the bagge after a right Falconer. 



" When your Hawke, being so seeled, doth feede well, and will 

 abide the Hoode, and to be handled without striking or biting 

 at your hand, then in an evening by candle light you shall 

 unseele her, and when you have hooded her take her on your 

 fist, and holde her so all night untill day appeare againe, doing 

 off her Hoode oftentimes, and handling her gently with your 

 hand, stroking her softly about the wings and the body, hooding 

 and unhooding of her and giving her sometimes to feede, a 

 morsell or twain, or sometimes tyring or plumage. But above 

 all things you must watch her on the fist so many nights 

 together without setting her downe on any pearch, that shee 

 may be wearie and suffer you to hoode and handle her gently 

 without any manner of resistance, and untill shee have alto- 

 gether left and forgotten her striking and byting at your hand ; 

 but some hawkes will be long before they leave that fault, as the 

 more coy or ramage that they be, the longer they will retain 

 all those ill tatches, and will not peradventure be wonne from 

 them in three, foure, or five dayes. When she is well reclaymed 

 from it then may you let her sit upon a pearch to rest her. 

 But every night you shall doe well to keepe her on the fist three 

 or foure houres, handling her and stroking her gently and 

 causing her to tyre or to plume, alwayes making much of her, 

 and hooding and unhooding her oftentimes, as before said. And 

 the like you may doe also by daylight but in a chamber apart 

 where she may see no great light, untill she feed surely and 

 eagerly without dread. 



" If your Hawke be thus in foure or five dayes manned so that 

 she begin to feede eagerly and boldly, then you shal first begin 

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