26 The Subjetts Treated. 



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" mewing " give the flefh of a kid, a young fwan, and efpecially rats 

 flesh ; ftewed adders are alfo ftrongly recommended, or chickens which 

 have been fed upon wheat foaked in broth of vipers. 



Gout feems a common difease in various parts of the Hawk's body, 

 which may be known by fwelling and " ungladnefs ;" alfo rheum and 

 fever and blains and agrum, which laft is cured by a red-hot filver 

 needle thruft into the noftrils. Botches in the jaw mould be "kutte 

 with a knyfe." More terms follow for various habits and actions, the 

 laft paragraph being upon the variety of Bells ufed for Hawks. There 

 mould be two, one a " femytoyn " (femitone) below the other. " The 

 Bells of Melen (Milan?) were the beft, but," fays the author, "there 

 be now ufed Dutchland bells, of a town called durdright (Dordrecht), 

 and they be paffmg good, fonowre (fonorous) of ringing in fhrillnefs, 

 and well laft ing." 



The whole ends with a lift of various fpecies of Hawks and their 

 appropriatenefs to the various ftations of life, among which are 



An Eagle for an Emperor. A Merlyon for a Lady. 



A Gerfalcon for a King. A Gofhawk for a Yeoman. 



A Peregrine for an Earl. A Sparehawk for a Prieft. 



A Mufkyte for " an holiwater clerke." 



The fecond treatife is upon Hunting, and has a fhort preface, which 

 probably came, like the firft, from the pen of the Schoolmafter. 



The work is all in metre, and evidently intended for boys to learn 

 by heart. It begins by telling "my dere chylde " the various kinds 

 of beaft to be hunted ; the changes of name they take as they grow 

 older ; the variety of horns ; how to (kin and difmember ; the various 

 cries and noifes to be ufed ; the feafons of hunting various beafts. 



Then follow inftrucl;ions how to hunt the Hare, and what to fay 

 to the hounds, who muft always be addreffed in French, as " arere ! " 

 when he enters the kennel-door ; " this is the firft word, my fon, of 

 venery." " Sa fa cy auaunt," " Sweff mon amy sweff," and other fimilai 

 cries are noted down, fome to be ihouted twice only and fome thrice, 



