BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



absolut .... to which is added the Gentleman's Exercise," 

 London, 4to, 1627, 1634, and 1661, Falconry is unaccountably 

 neglected, the author's tastes inclining him especially to 

 Heraldry. 



25. NASH (Thomas). Quaternio, or the foure- 

 fold Way to a happie Life, set forth in a Dialogue 

 between a Countryman and a Citizen, a Divine, and a 

 Lawyer. Per Tho. Nash, Philopolitem. [Quotations 

 from Martial, Horace, and Pliny.] London, Printed 

 by John Dawson, 1633. sm. 4to. 



A quaint discourse (pp. 280) wherein each interlocutor com- 

 mends his own pursuit. The Countryman remarks (p. 34), " As 

 for Hawking, I commend it in some, condemne it in others ; 

 but in men of meane ranke and religious men I condemne it 

 with Pet. Blesensis as an idle and foolish vanitie ; for I have 

 ever thought it a kinde of madnesse for such men to bestow ten 

 pounds in feathers which at one blast might be blowne away. 

 .... Yet I must acknowledge I have in my youthfuU dayes with 

 Machabceus (dicitur Machabceus domesticasse acciptres in avium 

 capturam) beene guiltie of this vanitie, and have been as glad as 

 ever I was to come from schoole to see a little Marlin in the 

 dead time of the yeare .... make her way through the midst 

 of ... . crows and kites which pursued her . . . .and maugre 

 all their oppositions pull downe her prey bigger than herselfe, 

 being mounted aloft steeple high, downe to the ground. And to 

 heare an Accipitrary relate againe how he went forth in a cleare 

 calme and sun-shine evening, about an houre before the sunne 

 did usually maske himselfe, unto the river, where finding of a 

 Mallard he whistled off his Faulcon, and how shee flew from him 

 as if shee would never have turned head againe, yet presently 

 upon a shoote came in, how then by degrees, by little and little, 

 by flying about and about, shee mounted so high, untill shee had 

 lessened herselfe to the view of the beholder, to the shape of a 

 Pigeon or Partridge, and had made the height of the moone the 

 place of her flight, how presently upon the landing of the fowle, 

 shee came down like a stone and enewed it, and suddenly got 

 up againe, and suddenly upon a second landing came downe 



