HAWK. | NATURAL HISTORY. 147 
are accounted the hare, boar and wolf. Of these also the 
stag is accounted for the most noble game, the fallow deer 
is the next, then the roe, whereof we have indifferent 
store, and last of all the hare. 
Holinsted, “Description of Britain,” p, 226, 
Hawk. 
TaminG oF THE SHREW, Induction, Sc. 2, 45. 
We have the eagle; the lanner [male] and the lanneret 
[female]; the tiercel and the goshawk ; the musket [male- 
sparrow-hawk] and the sparhawk ; the jack and the hobby 
[a small Hawk]; and finally some though very few marlions 
[merlins]. And these are all the Hawks that I do hear as 
yet to be bred within this island. Howbeit as these are 
not wanting with us, so are they not very plentiful ; where- 
fore such as delight in Hawking do make their chief pur- 
veyance and provision for the same out of Dansk [Denmark], 
Germany and the East countries; from whence we have 
them in great abundance, and at excessive prices, whereas 
at home they are sold for almost right naught. The spar- 
hawk is enemy to young children, as is also the ape; but 
of the peacock she is marvellously afraid, and so appalled, 
that all courage and stomach for a time is taken from her 
upon the sight thereof. 
Holinshed, “Description of England,” p. 2273; ch. v. 
Tue goshawk is a royal bird, and is armed more with 
boldness than with claws, and as much as kind taketh from 
her in quantity of body, he rewardeth her with boldness of 
heart. And she is a covetous fowl to take other fowls. 
Also such Hawks be cruel against their birds, so that they 
take from them meat when they be fledge and ripe, and 
they beat and drive them out of their nest, as the eagle 
doth her birds. And some such Hawks be thieves of the 
air only, and some of the earth only. And the more sharp 
her breast is, the better she is of flight. And the goshawk 
hath this property, that in age, when she feeleth herself 
grieved with heaviness and weight of feathers, she spreadeth 
her wings against the beams of the sun, when the wind is 
south, and so by sudden weather and resolving heat the 
