4 1 6 <±A Sumfnary of Falconry. 



But your Haggard Falcon, if you intend to weather her, you muft do it in the 

 morning, or elfe in the evening before fhe be fed, alfoyou muft remain clofe by her 

 with meat clean and ready dreft, to take her to your Fift withall. But I rather ad- 

 vife all Falconers to weather her in her Hood, which can do her no harm, but is ra- 

 ther a means to prevent her bating and driving, by which her fpirit and courage is 

 taken away. 



§. VIL 



When it is convenient tofet down, and leave flying of your Haggard. 



< A Bout Lady-day, or fomewhat before, is the time when thefe Hawks leave ours 

 £\ and other ftrange Countries. They begin to draw together, and to difpofe 

 themfelves thereunto a month before : The reafon is, becaufe at that time of the year 

 being mOved by their luft they repair to their breeding places. Therefore the old 

 Haggard mull: needs then be fet down, and fed up with hot and bloody meat : Thein- 

 termewed Haggard is more able to refift the courfe of nature, being not fo violent in 

 her, therefore you may fly her fomewhat longer. The PajJenger-foar-Falcon may be 

 flown a month longer than any of the other. All of them will upon a fmall occafion 

 be apt at that time to fly quite away; the inclination to cawking and procreating 

 Young, being then fo ftrong in them, as to deface and obliterate, or at leaft over-rule 

 all artificial impreffions of fubje&ion and obedience. 



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How to diet and prepare jour Hawk fir the Mew. 



YOumuft beware, when you purpofe to feed up your Hawk-, and put herin 

 flelh, that (he be not her own carver in her diet, and that you do not give her 

 too great a gorge your felf : For if you do. it is ten to one but (he will over-feed, and 

 furfeit of the fame. The reafon is becaufe (he wants exercife to digeft it. Your bcft 

 way therefore is, to keep your Hawk all the flying time as clean as you can; and at 

 ■ her fettingdown,keep your wonted courfe of feeding twice a day, and as near as you 

 can with hot and bloudy meat, and no more in quantity than you find her well able 

 to endue and put away : And if after a week or fortnights fpace you find fhe is 

 mended, then you^nay be bold to begin to feed her once a day , and if it be poflible at 

 firft let her have young Pigeons : But if you give her old birds, her firft gorges muft 

 be lefs. Thus observing how fhe mends by feeding once a day,and the eagernefs of her 

 ftomach doth abate, you may order her accordingly,and you will find her (hortly rai- 

 fed in her flefh,and fetled in her health,and fit for the Mew. 



§. IX. 



How to order your Hawk while foe remains in the Mew. 



BEfore you put her in, be fure fhe be free from Mites and Lice : Which elfe will in- 

 creafe upon her there, and hinder her thriving. 



Alfo take off her old JefTes, and put her on a pair of new and ftrong ones, that 

 may laft till the time of her drawing, that you be not forced to hold her, and ftrive 

 With her too long, to heather when fhe is in the prime of her greafe,which may do her 

 much harm. 



Keep your Mew aways fweet, and clean with fweeping. 



Obferve how your Hawk thrives by her callings and mutes, for fo you may know 

 how to diet her, continuing or altering her ufage accordingly. 



You muft not fail to let your Hawk have fair water always Handing by her^ which 

 muft often be fhifted. 



Be fure never to let her be without ftones lying by her in gravel. He advifes alfo to 

 gather up the ftones fie cafls, and waff) them, and lay them for her to take again: But I 

 Juppofe it would be better to give her fief) ftones. For thofe ftones which fhe hath taken and 

 caft up, are by mutual attrition in the flomach worn fmooth, and fo become lefs fit for the 

 grinding of the meat, which is the reafon why fhe cafts them up. Wherefore (as we have noted 

 before ) Poultry before they fwallow ftones try them with their tongues whether they be rough 

 or not. That 



