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againe, and missing of it, in the downecome recovered it, beyond 

 expectation, to the admiration of the beholder at a long flight. 



" And to heare him tell a third time, how he went forth early on / 

 a winter's morning, to the wooddy fields and pastures to flie the 

 Cocke, where having by the little white feather in his tayle dis- 

 covered him in a brake, he cast otf a tassel gentle, and how he 

 never ceased in his circular motion until he had recovered his 

 place, how suddenly upon the flushing of the Cocke he came 

 downe, and missing of it in the downecome what working there 

 was on both sides, how the Cocke mounted as if he would have 

 pierced the skies ; how the Hawke flew a contrarie way, untill 

 he had made the winde his friend, how then by degrees he got 

 up, yet never offered to come in untill he had got the advantage 

 of the higher ground, and then he made in, what speed the Cocke 

 made to save himselfe, and what hasty pursuit the Hawke made, 

 and how after two long miles flight killed it, yet in killing of it 

 killed himselfe. 



" These discourses I love to heare, and can well be content to 

 be an eyewitnesse of the sport when my occasions will permit. 

 But to see one of those fseminine birds who like some wives of 

 our time keep under the masculine [the females being larger and 

 more powerful than the males] I meane a swift winged Goshawke 

 or high-flying Jerkin [Jerfalcon] whose proper game is the Phea- 

 sant, Crane, or Bittorne, in the month of August to pull downe a 

 little Partridge .... there to surprise and kill her suddenly, 

 I must confesse it hath often gone against my stomacke .... 

 yet I must likewise confesse I have beene sometimes for societie's 

 sake, a spectator of such a tragedie " (pp. 35-37). 



26. SWAN (John). Speculum Mundi, or a glasse 

 representing the face of the world : whereunto is added 

 a Discourse of the Creation together with a consider- 

 ation of such things as are pertinent to each days 

 worke. Written by John Swan, M' of Arts, late 

 student of Trinitie Colledge Camb. Prin. in Cam- 

 bridge. By T. Buck and R. Daniel. 1635. sm. 4to. 



Second edition, 410, Cambridge, 1643; third edition, 4to, 

 London, 1665. 



