A CONFERENCE BETWIXT 



The Saker and Sacaret. 



The Merlin and Jack Merlin. 



The Hobby and Jack. 

 There is the Stelletto of Spain. 



The Blood-red Rook from Turkey. 



The Waskite from Virginia. 

 And there is of short-winged Hawks, 



The Eagle and Iron. 



The Goshawk and Tarcel. 



The Sparhawk and Musket. 



The French Pye 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 obser- 

 vation 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. Venator, to say what you are able in the com- 

 mendation of Hunting, to which you are so much affected ; and 

 if time will serve, I will beg your favour for a further enlargement 

 of some of those several heads of which I have spoken. But 

 no more at present. 



VEN. 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, wholsome, 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 

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