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Treatise on Hawkiing, 11* 1( continued) 



partridge wing he would readily hood her. 



Others, whose patience could not endure the tfbme whilst they 

 were throughly emboldened with the hood, would ji/^>ll^^ffeed, secupeiy 

 and gently in it, would be offering to put it on; and then what t 

 through her fear, and hes hasty carrying his hand, which increased 

 her fear, brought her to that pass, that she would not feed any 

 more through the hood, but with such a eautill fear as that she 

 would not be hooded, but was then as ill as ever she was, and so 

 much worse, because he had now bobbed her woth thos trick, whereby 

 she mig,ht have been taught, 



Swollen big with desire to effect thjts by some more ready & 

 easy means, which might more.speedily be done, and truly performed, 

 I had an imagination of this course, which here x will deliver, 

 by which means i brought five hawks and tarsels to as good perfection 

 as I could desire in the time of keeping my house and chamber, 

 being at that time very weak, and all of them were as much disordered 

 as hawks could be, and I delivered them as gently hooding as could 

 be desired. After they came unto me, and that I had beatowed them 

 upon the fist of one of my people, I kept them upon the fist, that 

 day they came unto me, and that night they were truly watched, after 

 the former manner of watching my hawks, both man and hawk to walk, 

 or at least the hawk to walk, bo soon as it was fair and light, I 

 did male them up in a handkeroher, (I pray you tinder stand thus 

 much, that it is not good she should be fed before she be maled) 

 making it very close about tne shoulders and body: would not 

 male up the tops of her flying feathers, le;8t I should thereby mar 

 the web of the feather; her legs they were laid along under her 

 train, but to save her train grom breaking any feather, because her 

 legs and it must be tied together, I pleat a large handkeroher six 

 times double, and lay that upon her legs \jiider her train, by which 

 means, by binding her up, you cannot bruise or crack a feather. 

 There is nothing but all safety in this course. 



hawk thus maled up, I lay her upon a cushion, and carry 

 her up and down under my arm; she is now fast she cannot rebell, I 

 offer the hood, whereat although she strike, and strive to stirr, 

 she cannot: so soon as she is quiet, holding the hood by the tassel, 

 I gently put it on; she cannot forbid it: thus I follow her hooding 

 and unheeding; I lay her upon a table, 1 walk by her, i put it on, 

 and pull it off very often; and if I shall be made acquainted with 

 any thing that she cannot endure, I will then present her with that: 

 Say she will not abide the fire, or not the b3iOwing or stirring 

 thereof; I Walk up and down before the fire, which she snould hear 

 blown, and see it stirred and rattled together, she cannot bate nor 

 hurt herself; and when she shall patiently lie still, and find that 

 it doth not hurt her, she will be the less afraid thereof, & in all 

 this time I lose nothJAg about my ^other practice: It may be she is 

 coy and fearful of the dogs, „ I layAupon the ground with her cushion, 

 whfre she shall for that time have familiarity enough with them: 

 lying so, walking by her, I ply her with the hood, and so I continue 

 •until night: When ni^ht cometh I unmale her; i have had a hawk thus 

 maled, that in a winters day she hath not made a mute; admit she 

 doth mute, it is great odds she shall, she fouleth none but a few 

 of her small feathers about her teweil, which are presently washed 

 with a sponge without any hurt. 



