A Summary of Falconry. 4 1 5 



by degrees, and give her fbrae bits of meat with your hand, being on your knees, to 

 pleafeand content her : And by this loving ufage you (hall find your firft Dove to be 

 the worft Dove, and the oftner you ufe her to them, the quieter (he will be : And (he 

 did not drag fo faft from you at the firft, but {he will fbon come to bring it with as 

 much fpeed toward you, yea, meet you with it, and be willing to exchange it with 

 you for a bit of meat at your hand. 



§. IV. 



Of giving ftones and cafting. 



WHen your Hawk** grown fo gentle that (he will endure to fit bare-fac'd in the 

 evening or night amongft company, then it is meet to give her ftones. Every 

 night, when (he hath put away her fupper from above, before you go to bed, give her 

 half a dozen fmall ftones. Give them above hand if you have the art,if not,then-other- 

 wife as you like beft to caft her. This do till you find her ftomach good, and then 

 you may profer her Cafting ; but be fure at your firft giving it be with her liking : For 

 otherwife I have feen divers Hawks beaten out of love with it, fo that they would ne- 

 ver take it willingly after. Add to the ink of a Dove as much clean-wafht flannel as 

 will make her a reafonable cafting, bearing in mind this old Proverb, 

 As wajh't meat and ft 'ones make a Hawk, to fly, 

 So great cajiings and longfajiing maketh her to die. 

 Thefe ftones given at night you (hall be fure to have again in the morning : But given 

 in the morning the will either caft them before they have done their work, or keep 

 .them all day and the next night. I have learnt by experience that ftones given once by 

 night do more good to a Hawkjhm twice by day, for fpeedy infeaming, or removing 

 any glut or evil humour. 3 



He makes account that fiones ferve to clean >fe the ftomach, &Z.C. others are of opinion, 

 that their ufe is to cool the body : I rather thinks, that they are of the fame nfe to Hawks as 

 to other birds, viz. to help grind their meat in their Jiomachs, though I confefs there may be 

 difference in this refpeB between Hawks and other birds 3 Hawks having rather a mem" 

 branous than mufeulous fiomach or gizzard. 



\. V. 



Of bathing pur Hawk. * 



I My felf ( faith my Author ) have had very few Haggards that would ever bathe at 

 all, fo long as they continued found : But whenfoever I proved them bare-fac'd 

 abroad, having fitted them with a reafonable gorge, they did themfelves more harm 

 by bating, than bathing would have done them good. Therefore if you find your 

 Hawk not difpofed to bathing, you were better keep her on your Fift. But after two 

 or three mews, in their declining age, through unnatural heats and furfets they will 

 defire bathing 5 and then you are not to neglect the occafion ■> but when the weather 

 will permit, mew her the water, and if (he do bathe, let her dry her felf abroad if it 

 be fair, and the weather temperate } otherwife let her have the air of the fire with 

 meafiire, and come no more abroad that day nor night, but fet her upon a very warm 

 Pearch, and from the air. 



Note. This kind of Hawks though you labour them carefully the firft year in their 

 snaking, having brought them to be fo familiar, that they will fit abroad bare-fac'd 

 hard by you when they are empty ,5 yet if you fhall abfent your felf for trial,, 

 you fhall find when yob come to them again they will be unquiet, and by bating anc| 

 ftriving do themfelves much harm, if they be full. 



§. VI. 



How to weather your Hdwki 



E^Tas Hawks are much fubjedt to heat, and therefore much addicfed to weathering 

 j and bathing, and will almoft never refufethe water. You may boldly fet abroad 

 thefe Hawks at any time of day unhooded to take the air : For in regard of their 

 fondnefs of^ and familiarity with the man, they will take no occafion to bate, thereby 

 to hurt themfelves when they are full-gorged . But 



