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she dooth mantill hir, and when she hath mantilled hir and bryngith 

 booth hir wynges togeder ouer hir backe, ye shall say youre hawke 

 ' warbellith hir wynges.'" — " Boke of St. Albans," i486. 



Watching. Part of the old method of taming hawks was to watch 

 them for the first night or two after their capture, to prevent them 

 from sleeping. " I kept them upon the fist that day they came 

 unto me, and that night they were truly watched." — Bert, " Treatise 

 of Hawkes," 1619 (p. 46). Shakespeare employs the word in this 

 sense, "Taming of the Shrew," act iv. sc. i, wherein Petruchio gives 

 a lesson in " reclaiming " a hawk. 



Weather, v., whence weathering, to place the hawk upon her block in 

 the open air. Simon Latham (who states in the Preface to his book 

 that " the practice and experience of many years is given in a few 

 leaves not drawn from traditions in print, or otherwise taken upon 

 trust, but out of certain and approved conclusions ") remarks on the 

 subject of "weathering " that an eyess may be set abroad to weather 

 at any time of day unhooded, and better when her gorge is full, for 

 she will then sit quietly upon the block ; but a haggard should be set 

 down in the morning, or else in the evening before she is fed, and 

 should always be hooded to prevent her from " bating " (as she other- 

 wise would do) and continually striving to be gone, whereby her 

 training would be greatly hindered. See Latham's " Falconry ; or 

 the Faulcon's Lure, and Cure," 161 5 (p. 35). 



