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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 hava 

 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 Hag- 

 gard, 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 

 commendation of Hunting, to which you are so much affected ; 

 and if time will serve, I will beg your favor for a further en- 

 largement 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, 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 sev- 

 eral recreations upon it, as horse-races, hunting, sweet smells, 

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



