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There is the stelletto of Spain, 



The blood- red rook from Turkey, 



The waskite from Virginia : 

 And there is of short- winged hawks, 



The ea^le and iron, 



The Goshawk and tarcel 



The sparhawk and musket, 



The French pie of two sorts. 



These are reckoned hawks of note and worth, but we have 

 also of an inferior rank, 



The stanyel, the ringtail. 



The raven, the buzzard, 



The forked kite, the bald buzzard, 



The hen-driver, and others that I forbear to name. 



Gentlemen, if I should enlarge my discourse to the observa- 

 tion of the eires, the brancher, the ramish hawk, the haggard, and 

 the two sorts of lentners, and then treat of their several ayries, 

 their mewings, rare order of casting, and the renovation of their 

 feathers : their reclaiming, dieting, and then come to their rare 

 stories of practice ; I say, if I should enter into these, and many 

 other observations that I could make, it would be much, very 

 much pleasure to me: but lest I should break the rules of 

 civility with you, by taking up more than the proportion of time 

 allotted to me, I will here break off, and entreat you, Mr. Vena- 

 tor, to say what you are able in the commendation of hunting, to 

 which you are so much aifected ; and, if time will serve, I will 

 beg your favor for a further enlargement of some of those several 

 heads of which I have spoken. But no more at present. 



Vex. Well, Sir, and I will now take my turn, and will first 

 begin with a commendation of the earth, as you have done most 

 excellently of the air ; the earth being that element upon which 

 I drive my pleasant, wholesome, hungry trade. The earth is a 

 solid, settled element ; an element most universally beneficial 

 both to man and beast : to men who have their several recrea- 

 tions upon it, as horse-races, hunting, sweet smells, pleasant 

 walks: the earth feeds man, and all those several beasts that 

 both feed him, and afford him recreation. What pleasure doth 



