56 THE LURE AND ITS USE. 
however, it was often found necessary to use a live pigeon, 
secured to a string by soft leather jesses, in order to recall 
them.* 
The long-winged hawks were always brought to the 
lure, the short-winged ones to the hand :— 
“ As falcon to the lure, away she flies.” 
Venus and Adonis. 
The game flown at was called in hawking parlance the 
“quarry,” and differed according to the hawk that was 
used, The gerfalcon and peregrine were flown at herons, 
ducks, pigeons, rooks, and magpies; the goshawk was 
used for hares and partridges; while the smaller kinds, 
such as the merlin and hobby, were trained to take black- 
birds, larks, and snipe. The French falconers, however, do 
not appear to have been so particular :— 
“We'll e’en to ’t like French falconers, fly at anything 
we see.’—Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. 
The word “ quarry” occurs in many of the Plays. 
“ This ‘quarry’ cries on havoc.” + 
Flamlet, Act v. Se. 2. 
* Salvin and Brodrick, ‘‘ Falconry in the British Islands," pp. 38, 39. 
t To ‘‘cry on” anything was a familiar expression formerly. In Ofhe/o (Act v. 
Se. 1), we read— 
“Whose noise is this that ‘ cries on’ murder ?”’ 
And in Richard I/J. (Act v. Sc. 3), Richmond says :— 
“ Methought, their souls, whose bodies Richard murder'd, 
Came to my tent, and ‘cried on’ victory.” 
To ‘‘cry havoc” appears to have been a signal for indiscriminate slaughter. 
