■oJT Summary of Falconry. 4.03 



If you would have your Hawk prove upwards and. high-flying, you muft let her 

 fly with fuch as are fo qualified. If (he love the company of others, and is taught to 

 hold in the Head, then if the Fowl be in. Pool, Pit, or Plafti, call off your high- 

 flying Hawk, and let him that hath your new-lured Hawk get under the Wind, and 

 when he feeth his advantage let him urihoodher, and if die bate, it is out of defire to 

 get up to the other Hawk* Let him then caft her off, and before (he get up to the 

 other,now near his full pitch,lay out the Fowl. If (he kill her Game reward her with 

 the heart, and let her partake of the Breaft with the other. Hawk. 



To take your Falcon from going off to any cbec^xhUsyon muft do. If fhe hath 

 killed sl check, and hath feed thereon before you could come in, rebuke her not fevere- 

 lyatfirft, buttakeher down to the Lure, give her a bit or two, hood her, and -fly 

 her not in three or four days; and if you do, let it be yvheteno checfe are: Butifyou 

 come in before (he hath tailed the chec^She hath killed, then take the Gall of a Hen 

 and anoint the breaft of the fowl (he hath killed [ any other bitter thing will do, but 

 you muft not put on too much] and this will make her hate to go at C/w^ again, 

 hvi ng little lift to fly at fuch a fowl. 



$. IV. 



How to enfeam and tnakg a Falcon, with her cajiings and fcowrings, &c. 



THe longer a Falcon hath been in the Falconers hands the harder fhe is to be en* 

 feamed: Becaufe a Hawk that preyeth for her felf feeds cleaner and better ac- 

 cording to her nature 3 and hath the benefit of open air, and more exercife. When 

 you draw your Hawk out of the Mew, it (he be grealie, ( which you (hall know by 

 the roundnefs of her thighs, and fulnefs of her body, the flefh being round, and as 

 high as her Breaft bone,) and if (he be wellmew'd, and have all her featheis full dim- 

 med, then give her in the Morning a bit or two of hot meat : at night give her but 

 little, unlefsitbe very cold. If (he feed well and freely, then give her waftit meat; 

 thus prepared : Take the Wings of a Hen or Pullet for her dinner, and wafh them in 

 two waters j and if you give her Hares flelh or Beef, let it be waftied in three wa- 

 ters : On the morrow give her the Leg of a Hen very hot, and at Noon meat tempe- 

 rately waim, a good gorge, then let herfaft until it be late in the Evening 5 and if fhe 

 have put over her meat, then give her a little warm meat, as you did in the Morning, 

 and thus let her be dieted till it be time to give her Plumage: Which you fhall know 

 by three tokens. 1. By the tendernels and foftnefs of the rlefh at the end of the pi- 

 nion of the Wing, above what it was before (he eat wafht meat. 2. By the mewts 

 being clean and white,the black thereof being right black, and not mingled with any 

 foul thing or colour. 3. If (he be fharp-fet and plume eagerly. You may give her 

 calling of a Hares or Conies foot, as was before prefcribed, or thefmall feathers on the 

 pinion of an old Hens Wing. 



Having fet her on the Pearch, fweep clean underneath, that you may fee whether 

 the mewt be full of ftreaks, or skins, or (limy : If it be, then continue this fort of 

 calling three or four nights together 5 but if you find the feathers digefted and foft, 

 and that her cafting is great, then take the Neck of an old Hen, and cut it between' 

 the joynts, then lay it in cold water, and give it your Falcon three nights together ; 

 In the day-time give her waftit meat after this cafting or plumage, as you fhall fee re- 

 quifite : And this will bear all down into the pannel. 



When you have drawn your Falcon out of the Mew, and her principal feathers be 

 not yet full fummed, but lbme in the quill, do not give her wafht meat-, but quick 

 birds, and good gorges thereof, and fet her as much as may be in open places, for 

 otherwife her feathers may chance to fhrink in the quil and come to nothing. 



When you feed your Falcon call and lure as if you called her to the Lure, and eve- 

 ry day profer her water, and every night give her callings accordingly as fhe en- 

 deweth. Take off her hood frequently in company, that you may bander her from 

 bating, holding the hood always ready by the Tauel in your hand. 



In the Evening by Candle-light take off her hood among company, till fherowze 

 and mewt 5 then fet her on the Pearch, and not before, fetting a light before her. 



Every Falcon ought to have a Make-Hawkso teach her to hold in the head : If that 

 will not do, cut offfome part of her two principal feathers in each Wing, the long 

 one, and that next to it, which will force her to hold in. 



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