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A Summary of Falconry. 



§. XII. 



What muft he done when a Hawk, will not hold in the Head. 



IF you find your Hawk rake after Checks, and lean out Co Far that neither Whooping 

 Luring, nor calling of the Hawks Glove is any way available, but (he rather gads 

 out more and more, and at lad flies away , I know not how to advife otherways, than 

 to follow after with Whooping and Luring: If (he turn and come to the Lure, (hew 

 Tier all the kindnefs imaginable. This fault is frequently found in Soar-Hawks or 

 Hawks of the firft Coat. 



§. XIII. 



How to keep a Hawk high-flying. 



IF your Hawk be a (lately high-flying Hawk, you ought not to ingage her in more 

 Flights than one in a morning : For often flying brings her off from her ftately 

 pitch. If (he be well made for the River, fly her not above twice in a morning 5 yet 

 feed her up though (he kill not. 



When a high-flying Hawk, being whiftled to, gathers upwards to a great Gate 

 you muft continue her therein, never flying her but upon broad waters and open 

 Rivers j and when (he is at the higheft, take her down with your Lure 5 where when 

 (he hath plumed and broken the Fowl a little, then feed her up 5 And by that means 

 you (hall maintain your Falcon high-flying, inwards, and very fond of the Lure. 



Some will have this high-flying Falcon feldom to kill, and not to (loop : Yet if (he 

 kill every day, although (lie (loop from a high Gate, yet if (he be not rebuked or hurt 

 therewith, (he will, I can allure you, become a higher Flier every day than other, 

 but (he will grow lefs fond of the Lure. Wherefore your high-flying Hawks (hould 

 be made inwards, it being a commendable quality in them to make in and turn Head 

 at the fecond or third tofsof the Lure, and when (he poureth down upon it as if (he 

 had killed. 



And as the teaching of a Falcon, or any other Hawk, to come readily to and love 

 the Lure, is an Art highly commendable, becaufe it is the efTecl: of great labour and 

 induftry : So it is the caufe of laving many a Hawk, which otherwise would be loft 

 irrecoverably. 



Mark this by the way, that fome naturally high-flying Hawks will belong before 

 they be made upwards, RWlfifting and playing the (lugs : And when they (hould get up 

 to cover the Fowl, they will (loop before the Fowl be put out. And this may pro- 

 ceed from two caufes. In the firft place, (he may be too (harp let, and in the next 

 place, it may be (he is flown untimely, either too foon, or too late. 



When you lee a Hawk ule thole evil Tatches without any vifible caufe, caft her out 

 la dead Fowl for a dead Quarry, and hood her up inftantly without Reward, to dis- 

 courage her from practifing the like another time : Half an hour afterwards call her 

 to the Lure and feed her, andferve her after this manner as often as (he fiftieth in that 

 fafhion. 



Befides, to correct this error, the Falconer ought toconfult the natures and difpofi- 

 tions of his Hawks, and (hould carefully obferve which fly high when in good plight, 

 and which beft when they are kept low, which when (harpeft fet, and which on the 

 contrary in a mean between both, which early at Sun-rifing, which when the Sun is 

 but two hours high, which fooner, and which later in an evening. 



For know that the natures of Hawks are different } fo are the times to fly each one: 

 For to fly a Hawk in her proper time, and to fly her out of it, is as difagreeable as the 

 flight ofa Gerfalcon and a Buzzard. Therefore the Oftrager muft fly hisHawksac- 

 cordingto their natures and difpofitions, keeping themalways in good order. 



Where by the by take notice, all Hawks, as well Soar-Hawks as Mew'd-Hawks 

 and Haggards, (hould be fet out in the evening two or three hours, fome more, fome 

 lefs, having refpect to their nature as it isftronger or weaker } and in the morning alfo 

 according as they caft, hooding them firft, and then fettingthem abroad a weathering, 

 until you get on Horfe- back to profecute your Recreation. 



§. XIV. 



