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Treatise on Hawking, II, 1( continued) 



When she is now vmnialed, and sltteth upon my fist, she will 

 take the hood by candle-light, as well as she did when she was 

 maled, which it may be she would do before she came unto me, for 

 many hawks will hood by candle-light that will not abide the sight 

 of it in the day. 



But for your better instruction, it must be with holding it 

 gently to her beak, which she must be as willing to put into the 

 hood, as you are to put it on, I pray you let your own reason 

 guide you thus far; hastiness to hood her, when she would not be 

 hooded, brought her to this imperfection; therefore keep you as far 

 from that as may be, find In this practice to do it with as much 

 leisure as may be. It is raot to be believed how the least hasty 

 motion will put her in mind of what she hath formerly met with. I 

 watched her this night with the often using the hood, and whether 

 X did sit still of walk, I would be sure she should not be idle; 

 believe it, all this night she will take the hood as well as you 

 can desire, but the question is for the morning: Therefore I would 

 be without fall walking abroad in the morning before day, and then 

 and there follow my practice, wheh it may be I shall not find him 

 contrary my desire: As I feed often in the night, so now I fail not, 

 lest hunger should make him stir, if he be not coy of the hood,aat 

 or a little before the sun riseth, if they be carefully handled they 

 are forever made well hooding. I never had any but one tarsel, 

 but with the night and day before, were made very gentle to the 

 hood, only that one tarsel I was driven to male up again the second 

 day; I muit let none of them all have their full rest that night; 

 but when they are thus made, they must be allowed, for fear they 

 fall again: Be sure to be abroad early in the morning, following 

 her with the hood; I hope this is sensibly to be effected by any :& 

 man; But if my hawk turn her head from the hood, I patiently attend 

 her patience, holding my hood to her head, and with turning my 

 hand set her right and fit to take it; but if she will be wild or 

 angry, she cannot understand me. 



He that will use violence with a horse already distempered, 

 and with spur or chein add fury to fury, may perhaps at that time 

 be deceived of his expectation: So, he that shall deal with a man 

 in the time of his impatience, may peradventure at that time want 

 bf a reasonable hegrlng; but glVe the man time until that humor br 

 spent, and so thy horse, and hawl, and they will all mildly attend 

 thee. 



If your hawk be distempered, and you know no reason why, use 

 her not otherwise but with a loving respect, and as soon as may be 

 make a peaceable love and reconcilAment between you; there is no 

 indifferent hooding to be looked for by this manner of using her, 

 for She must do it well in the highest degree. Hereof i conclude, 

 and so I proceed to the recovery of all other ill conditions. And 

 first for a hawk that will royle and house. 



