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 '11 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." f 



Hamlet, Act v. Sc. 2. 



* Salvin and Brodrick, "Falconry in the British Islands," pp. 38, 39. 

 f To " cry on 1 ' anything was a familiar expression formerly. In Othello (Act v. 

 Sc. i), we read — 



"Whose noise is this that ' cries on' murder?" 

 And in Richard III. (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. 



