4. i g A Summary of Falconry, 



Another Hawk when I came into the Mew with her dinner did call: up feme few 

 ftones at the fight of the meat, and when (he had eaten up the fame (being a young 

 Pigeon) (he prefently took above a dozen more, which fhe kept till the next day. 

 The like ftory he relates of a Tared gentle, that after he had eaten a whole young Pi- 

 geon took prefently fifteen or fixteen ftones, and made it fomething late the next day 

 before he call: them. This Hrf^alfo at the fight of his meat would not fail to caft 

 fbmeof his ftones. 



No fuch Phyfic ( faith he ) for a Hawk as to give her ftones in due time. Here he 

 takes a great deal of pains to prove that ftones do not, according to the commonly re- 

 ceived opinion, cool, but rather at prefent heat, their ufe being in his judgment to 

 melt and wafte the glut and fatnefs, and to empty and evacuate thofe gorgitive and 

 ftuffing humours, and fo to infeam and make her clean. But this I omit, becaufe, as I 

 faid before, I thinly the main ufe of the ftones is to ajjrji the Jiomach in comminution and 

 grinding of the meat, thereby causing a more fpeedy and perfett concoction, and fo they 

 conduce much to the prefervation and recovery of health 5 the Jiomachs not performing Us 

 office well being the foundation and original of mofi difeafes in Hawks and other animals, 

 jith an error in thefrji conco&ion is not amended in the fubfequent. 



One remarkable obfervation he hath, which may feem to argue- that ftones have a 

 purgative quality in them, which is this^ That upon giving ftones after forbearance 

 a while, a Hawk will oftentimes at her beginning to caft before the ftones, in the 

 midft, and at the end of them, gufhout abundance of waterifh, andyelloWifh greafie 

 dime and glut from forth her body : Which before,though (he had cafting daily, flow- 

 ed notforth. 



He advifes at the beginning to make your Hawk perfectly clean, and Co to keep 

 her without pampering with great meals, and to have her empty, and with a good 

 fToffiach when fhe flies : For if fhe be flown full, it may endanger her life , andbefides, 

 fhe will never fly with regard and attention to her Keeper, it her ftomach be not per- 

 fect. For proof whereof Take any young Hawk out of the Neft ( though newly 

 difclofed ) and breed her up as familiarly as you can devife : Yet when you fhall come 

 afterwards to fly her, fhe muft be altogether governed by her ftomach. For let her 

 fail of that never fo little, and every puff of wind will blow her from you 5 nay, if 

 there be no wind ftirring, yet fhe will wheel and fink away from him and from his 

 voice, that all the time before had lured and trained her up. ■_ Contrariwife, if it be 

 his hap to find her again when fhe is hungry, though fhe would ftarve before fhe 

 would prey for her felf, yet then will fhe own him or any other man : Nay, fhe will 

 be ready to take his Cap from him before fhe will either leave or lofe him. 



Note well, that what fhew of cleannels foever you find in your Hawk, by her caft- 

 ing, mutes, or otherwile, although you have taken never fo much pains with her 

 by cafting, clean feed, and ftones to purge and cleanfe her inwardly , yet will fhe 

 not be perfectly infeamed till fhe come to the exercife of her Wings, and labour of her 

 body, after which fhe will break greafe, and by degrees infeam throughly. And be 

 fure that her labour at firft be not immoderate, for if it be, it will ingender grief 

 Alfo you muft give her liberty by degrees to ftir her Wings, and ufe her body, that 

 there may be no heat exceffively taken, until fhe be throughly infeamed, and then 

 (he may be weary with flying, but fhe will never take harm. 



§. XL 



How to alter fome ill qualities and conditions in a Falcon. 



Ou (hall fometimes meet with a Hawk^, that when you have well lured her, and 

 given all the good content you can devife to her, yet upon theleaft fcopeand 

 liberty that fhall be offered, fhe will not tarry with you, but go her way. To reclaim 

 her from fo bad a condition you muft take this courfe. 



Abate her pride fomewhat, yet withreafon and refpecl: to the weather. Then get 

 youaM^-^^4 5 and taking a fit hour in the Evening, upon a convenient and eafie 

 place, and one couple of Fowl with your Make-Hawk, flown andftoopedonceor 

 twice, or as you fee caufe in managing your flight to your beft advantage in landing, 

 but when fhe is coming for the laft to kill it overland, be fure to ftand under the wind 

 with your Hawk^, and let her lee the Fowl overthrown, and go in to the quarry 3 

 and if you perceive fhe flieth in with a courage, and feifeth with love and heat on 

 the Fowl, make in apace and crofs the Wings of the Fowl, and make that fafe, 



fufTering 



