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Ouse, or Brandon river, with the Thet, and refers to Thetford 

 as a place much esteemed by falconers in his day. His descrip- 

 tion towards the end of Song xx., of "a flight at brook," near 

 Thetford, is very animated : — 



" The trembling fowl that hear the jigging hawk-bells ring, 

 And find it is too late to trust then to their wing, 



Lie flat upon the flood 



The hawks get up again into their former place, 

 And ranging here and there in that their airy race, 

 Still as the fearful fowl attempt to 'scape away. 

 With many a stooping brave them in again they lay. 

 But when the falconers take their hawking-poles in hand, 

 And, crossing of the brook, do put it over land, 

 The hawk gives it a * souse,' that makes it to rebound 

 Well near the height of man sometime above the ground. 

 With many a Wo-ha-ha, and jocond cheer again, 

 When he the quarry makes upon the grassy plain." 



The text has "jocond lure'^ an absurdity uncorrected in the 

 latest edition of the Polyolbioji, by the Rev. Richard Hooper, 

 1S76 (vol. iii. p. 23). Prof. Skeat, in stating in his "Etymo- 

 logical Dictionary," 1882, that the form "jocond" is "not 

 recorded, but obviously must have existed," has overlooked its 

 use by Drayton in the line above quoted. 



For an illustration of "brook-hawking" as described by 

 Drayton, see Blome (No. 41), plate v. p. 44. 



24. BEATHWAIT (Richard). The English 

 Gentleman : containing sundry excellent Rules or 

 Exquisite Observations, tending to Direction of every 

 Gentleman .... how to demene or accomodate 

 himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. 

 Sold by R. Bostock. London, 1630. 4to.'^ 



Contains several passages and one or two good anecdotes 

 relating to Hawking (pp. 93, 96, 97, no, 113). A second 

 edition, 4to, appeared in 1633, and a third, folio, in 1641. In 

 1652 it reappeared with a new title, "Time's Treasury; or 

 Academie for Gentry." 



Note. — In Peacham's " Complete Gentleman, fashioning him 



