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That meat which you do kill for your Hawk with & Piece be lure to fearch, and cut 

 out the black and bruited flefh, which proceeds of the Gunpowder. For there is no 

 Cun but after one (hot or two, (efpecially in wet weather) fends forth the (hot is 

 black as ink. 



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How to tahgyour Hawkfrom the Mew, mfeam her and make her ready toft). 



WHen you draw your Hawk, be careful not to-ftrive long with her, or heat her 

 by ftrugling and bating, but with all poffible expedition fct her down upon a 

 Pearch, to reft quietly, till her anger and turbulent humour be aflwaged 3 and fo let 

 her fit among company, and in their hearing, without any occafion of dittu'rbance as 

 near as you can. Then when you think it convenient, take her gently upon your Fift, 

 and carry her up and down, ftroaking her with a feather lightly and gently : And if 

 you perceive her begin to ftir or grow unquiet, fet her down again, and thus ufe her 

 until by degrees you have drawn her to fome reafbnable familiarity, and that fhe 

 will begin to feed: Then give her more carriage, and ufe her to it more and more, 

 and be fure ftill to keep her as quiet as may be, and by all means prevent bating. 

 For there is more danger in fome one Hawk that is to be reclaimed and infeamed from 

 the Mew, than in many other Hawks that have been newly taken in 'England, or from 

 the Cage: Thereafonis, becaufeby reafonof her eafe and full feeding, and want of 

 exercife in the Mew, no crammed Fowl will be more fat and full than (he, and fo (he 

 will be apt to receive much harm by bating or any fudden heat: Whereas the wild 

 Hawk., coming from the labour of her body, and exercife of her Wings : And the 

 Cage-Hawkbzmg tolled and tumbled in her voyage, are feldom over-fat, and fo in 

 iels danger of over-heating themfelves by bating or otherwife. 



When you have brought her to eat, you muft feed her twice a day, and fo order and 

 diet her continually, and it muft be with new and good meat, which you muft drefs 

 and wafh clean, wringing but the bloud with fair water, that lb fhe may fooner come 

 to a ftomach: And for the quantity thereof let it be as much as the Wing of an old 

 Dove atonce,or as you (hall find her,to put away the one meal,and make her felffit and 

 ready for the other. And for the firft week or ten days after fhe begins to feed, give 

 her neither cafting nor ftones, but the week after give her half a dozen ftones every 

 night, after fhe hath put away her fupper from forth her gorge, which you fhall find 

 fhe will call: you up again in the morning very early. The third week approaching 

 you muft give her every night a cafting, continuing your former manner of diet till 

 your Hawk be flying, and allher flying time, only adding unto her meals fomewhat 

 in quantity, and forbearing to wafh altogether fb hard, with refpect. to the mildnefs 

 and hardnefs of the weather, &c. 



Then prepare your felf to lure her, and let her exercife and have the benefit of her 

 Wings. 



If you give your Hawk a piece of Flannel or CottOn for cafting, he advifeth that 

 it be perfectly clean wafht 5 and that when you give thelighteft and ealieft fuppers, and 

 fome Plumage with it, but never upon a great gorge to the founded: Hawk, that is. 

 Alfo in a morning, when your Hawk makes a loofe and unwrapped cafting o'f Plu- 

 mage, it is good to give a little knot with ftones, to bring away loofe or draggling 

 feathers out of the Pannel. Many found Hawks will never brook a woollen cafting 3 

 and therefore my Author advifesnot to give your Hawk any fuch, unlefs it be fome- 

 times for trial, but to give her only cafting of Plumage 5 and fo you fhall be fure to 

 preferve and keep her fafe, and in continual cafe to do her bufinefs. 



Here my Author -enters into along difcourfe about giving of ftones, giving many reasons 

 •why it is better to give them over night than in the morning 5 which, becaufe I dm not of his 

 opinion concerning the ufe of ftones, and thinks that they may be indifferently given either' 

 at night or in the morning, when the Hawk, is willing to take them, and that it matters 

 hot much how long fie keeps them, IfiaUomit. Only Ifiall fet down fome of his experi- 

 mental oh fervations. I have (faith he) feen a Hawk in the time of her flying, that 

 hath taken a dozen or more ftones of her felf in a morning, and hath kept half of 

 them till next morning : The fame Hawkwhen they Were given her would not mifs at; 

 her feeding time, or at the fight of meat to caft half of them, and keep the reft till the 

 next day. This he obfervedmany Hawks to do. 



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