HAWKING TERMS. Sr 
Card..1 thought as much; he’d be above the clouds. 
Believe me, cousin Gloster, 
Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly, 
We had had more sport.” 
“Flying at the brook” is synonymous with “hawking 
by the river,” and.shows us that the party were in pursuit 
of water-fowl. Chaucer speaks of 
“Ryding on, hawking by the river, 
With grey goshawk in hand.” 
“ Point.’—The fluttering or hovering over the spot 
where the “ quarry” has been “ put in.” 
“ Pitch.-—The height to which a hawk rises before 
swooping. 
“ How high a gztch his resolution soars!” 
Richard II. Act i. Se. 1. 
“ Tower.”—A common expression in falconry, signifying 
to rise spirally to a height. Compare the French “ Zour.” 
The word occurs again in Macbeth, Act ii. Sc. 4, with 
reference to a fact which we might well be excused for 
doubting, did we not know that it was related as an 
unusual circumstance :— 
“On Tuesday last, 
A falcon, ow’ving in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill’d.” 
