aoa. A Summary of Falconry, 



Be fure to reward your Hawk well at the beginning, and let he feed well on the 

 Quarry, which will fo encourage her that fhe will have no fancy to go out to the 

 Check. When (he is well in bloud and well quarried, then let her fry with other 

 Hawks. 



If you would make your Falcon to the Crane,her Lure fhould be a counterfeit Crane. 

 If you would make her to the Hare, her Lure (hould be then a Hares Skin ftufc with 

 fome light matter: When (he is well lur'd, and you would enter her, tie the Hares 

 Skin fo ftuft to the end of a Creance, and fatten it to your Saddle-pummel, by which 

 means when you gallop it will refemble a running Hare: Then unhood your Hawk 

 and cry, Backjeith the Dogs,Back^mth the Dogs. When you find fhe hath feized it,Iet 

 go your Creance, and fufter her to fatten thereon $ then inftantly reward her upon it 

 and encourage her as much as is poffible. 



When fhe is well entred after this manner, take a living Hare and break one of her 

 hinder Legs, and having before well acquainted your Falcon with your Dogs by con- 

 tinual feeding among them, I fay then put your Hare out in fome fair place with your 

 Dogs, and the Falcon will ftoop and ruff her .until the Dogs may take her 5 then take 

 the Hare from the Dogs, and cafe her out to the Falcon, crying, Bat \,back, there. 



If you would make your Hawk flying to the Partridge or Pheafant after fhe is re- 

 claimed and made, then every time you lure her caftyour Lure into fome low Tree or 

 Bufh, that fhe may learn to take the Tree or Stand: If fhe take the Stand before fhe 

 fees the Lure, let her ftand a while, and afterwards draw the Lure out before her 

 and cry with what words you have acquainted her to underffand you by, and then re- 

 ward her well. After this manner fhe will learn to take jland. 



Feed her always on the ground, or in fome thick place, for in fuch places fhe mufr 

 incounter with the Pheafant at Pearch. 



At firft fly with her at young Pheafant or Partridge, to encourage her by advantage 

 and afterwards at the old. 



If a Falcon will not take ftand, but keep on the Wing, then muff you fly her in plain 

 places where you may always fee her upon you. 



Draw your Falcon out of the Mew twenty days before you enfeam her : If fhe 

 trufs and carry, the remedy is to cope her Talons, her Powlfe and petty- (ingle. 



Never reward your Hawk upon River-fowl, but upon the Lure, that fhe may the 

 better know, love, and efteem thereof. 



The Crane ought to be flown at before Sun-rifing,for fhe is a flothful Bird,and you 

 may caftoff to her aCaJl ovLeafeoi Falcons, or a Gofhawk from the Fid, without 

 Dogs. You muft fly but once a, day at the Crane, after which you muft reward your 

 Hawk very well, ever fuccouring her with the Greyhound, which is the bed ofDops 

 for that purpofe. 



G ive your Falcon a Beaching very early in the Morning, and it will make her very 

 eage r to fly when it is time for it. 



If you would have her a high-flying Hawk, you muft not feed her highly, but fhe 

 fhould be fed nine days together before Sun-rifing, and at night late in the cool of the 

 Evening. 



The Falcon will kill the Hern naturally if fhe be a Peregrin or Traveller : Yet you 

 will do well to give her Trains. 



A Falcon may fly ten times in a day at a River, if the Seafon be not extreme, but 

 more is inconvenient. 



A Hawk ought to have forty Caftings before (he be perfectly made. And indeed 

 all Hawks ought to have Caftings every night, if you would have them clean and 

 found : For Hawks which have not this continual nocturnal Cafting will be uncharged 

 with abundance of iuperfluous Humours, which afcending to the Brain, breed fo 

 great a difturbance that they cannot fly fo high as otherwife they would. And it is 

 good to give them Tiring or Plumage at night, efpecially Field-Hawks, but not Ri- 

 ver-Hawks, for fear of weakning their Backs. 



When your Hawk hath flown or bated, feed her not fb long as fhe panteth, (but 

 let her be firft in breath again 5 ) otherwife you may bring her into a difeafe called the 

 Pantos. 



If a Falcon or other Hawk will not feife nor gorge, take the Quill of a Wild-goofe, 

 and tie it under her long-&#g/e 5 then will the feife and gripe. When fhe beginneth to 

 feife, takeaway thefaid Quill, and fhe will feife long afterwards. 



If you cannot give Covert to your Falcon or Gofhawk, then caft her off with the 

 Sun in her back. 



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