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several kinds, and how useful their honey and wax is both 

 for meat and medicines to mankind ; l 

 but I will leave them to their sweet 

 labour, without the least disturbance, 

 believing them to be all very 

 busy at this very time amongst 

 the herbs and flowers that we 

 see nature puts forth this May 

 morning. 



And now to return to my 

 hawks, from whom I 

 have made too long a 

 digression ; you are to 

 note, that they are 

 usually distinguished 

 into two kinds; namely, 

 the long-winged, and 

 the short- wingedhawk : 

 of the first kind, there 

 be chiefly in use amongst us in this nation, 



The gerfalcon and jerkin, 

 The falcon and tassel-gentel, 

 The laner and laneret, 

 The bockerel and bockeret, 

 The saker and sacaret, 

 The merlin and jack merlin, 

 The hobby and jack ; 



?here is the stelletto of Spain, 



The blood-red rook from Turkey, 

 The waskite from Virginia ; 



And there is of short-winged hawks, 



1 Walton no doubt had in mind Butler's curious book on Bees, of which 

 the following is the title : ' ' The Feminine Monarchic, or the History of 

 Bees ; showing their admirable nature and properties, their generation 

 and colonies, their government, loyaltie, art, Industrie, enemies, warres', 

 magnanimitee, &c. Written out of experiment, by Charles Butler." Lond. 

 1623. Small 4to. ED. 



