58 HAWK’S TRAPPINGS. 
“ There is, sir, an aiery of children, little eyases, that cry 
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out : 
Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. 
By some falconers “haggards” were also called “ pas- 
sage hawks,” from being always caught when in that state, 
at the time of their periodical passage or migration. As 
will be seen hereafter, the word “haggard” occurs fre- 
quently throughout the Plays. : 
The “jesses” were two narrow strips of leather, fastened 
one to each leg, the other ends being attached to a swivel, 
from which depended the “leash.” When the hawk was 
flown, the swivel and leash were taken off, the jesses and 
bells remaining on the bird. 
Some of the old falconers’ directions on these points 
are very quaint. Turbervile, in his “Book of Falconrie,” 
1575, speaking of the trappings of a hawk, says :—“ Shee 
must haue jesses of leather, the which, must haue knottes 
at the ende, and they should be halfe a foote long, or 
there about; at the least a shaftmeete betweene the 
hoose of the jesse, and the knotte at the ende, whereby 
you tye the hauke.” 
