124 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



Library, Madrid, has not been printed in full, but some account 

 of it will be found in *' La vida y hechos del M. P. Alonzo 

 Tostado de Madrigal," by Gil Gonzales Davila, " Historia del 

 Colegio Viejode San Bartolome de Salamanca," 1611 (p. 123). 

 It is to be hoped that some Spanish editor may be found to 

 undertake its entire transcription and publication. 



244. CALDERON (Don Pedro, de la Barca). El 



Mayor Encanto Amor. Madrid. 1641. 410. 



No account of the Spanish literature relating to Falconry would 

 be complete without allusion to the beautiful description of 

 Heron Hawking which occurs in " Love the Greatest Enchant- 

 ment," one of the finest compositions of Calderon. 



This fiesta was represented before the King on the night of 

 St. John, in the year 1635, ^' the royal palace of the Buen Retiro, 

 and was published in the second volume of the collected Dramas 

 of the poet by his brother Don Jose Calderon in 1641. It has 

 been admirably translated into English by D. F. MacCarthy, side 

 by side with the Spanish text (London, Longmans, 1861, sm. to) 

 in which volume the passage referred to will be found (p. 90) in 

 the second Act : 



" Atomo ya la garza apenas era, 

 Cuando, desenhetrada la cimera 

 Que el capirote enlaza, 

 Mi mano un gerifalte desembraza, 

 A quien, porque en prision no se presuma, 

 La pluma le halagaba con la pluma, 



Y el, como hambriento estaba, 

 Duro el laton del cascabel picaba. 

 Apenas k la luz restituidos 



Se vieron otro y el, cuando atrevidos, 

 Cuanta estacion vacia 

 Palestra es de los atomos del dia, 

 Corren los dos por paramos del viento, 



Y en una y otra punta, 



Este se aleja, cuando aquel se junta; 



Y el bajel ceniciento 



(Que bajel ceniciento entonces era 

 La garza, que velera 



