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birds generally " bated," that is fluttered or beat their wings violently 

 in their efforts to escape. 



Petruchio, in ' Taming of the Shrew,' gives us a lesson in reclaiming 

 a hawk : when speaking of Catharine he says : — 



" M^ falcon now is sharp and passing empty, 

 And till she stoop she must not be full-gorg'd, 

 For then she never looks upon her lure. 

 Another way I have to man my haggard, 

 To make her come and know her keeper's call, 

 That is to watcli her, as we watch these kites, 

 That bate and beat, and will not be obedient. 

 She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat ; 

 Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not." 



Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 1. 



" Stoop," sometimes written " stoup " (Spenser's ' Faerie Queene,' 

 Book I. Canto xi. 18), and " swoop " (as in ' Macbeth,' " at one fell 

 swoop"), signifies a rapid descent on the "quarry." 



" I bless the time 

 When my good /a/co» made her flight across 

 Thy father's orchard." 



Winter^ Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 



" This outward sainted deputy. 

 Whose settled visage and deliberate word 

 Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmeu' 

 As falcon doth the fowl." 



Measure for Measure, Act iii. Scene I. 



" Enmew," in its primary sense, signifies " to enclose," " shut up." 

 Hence the word " mews," that is, the place where the hawks were 

 confined. 



* * * " To-night she's mew'd up." 



Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Scene 4. 



And Gremio, speaking to Signior Baptista of Bianca, says, 



" Why will you mew her ? " 



Taming of the Shreiv, Act i. Scene 1. 



A question presently solved by Tranio, who says, 



" And therefore has he closely mew'd her up. 

 Because she will not be annoy 'd with suitors." 



In the line above quoted, however, from ' Measure for Measure,' the 



