THE CADGE. 



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That bate, and beat, and will not be obedient. 

 She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat ; 

 Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not." 

 Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Sc. 1. 



The word " stoop," sometimes written " stoup " (Spenser's 

 "Faerie Queene," Book I. Canto XI. 18), and "swoop" 

 {MacbetJi, " at one fell swoop "), signifies a rapid descent 

 on the " quarry." It occurs again in Henry V Act iv. 

 Sc. 1 : — 



" And though his affections are higher mounted than 

 ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing." 



The hawks, when carried to the field, were borne on 

 " the cadge," as shown in the engraving ; the person 



