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[He wishes not to be too hafty in flying Golhawks before they be throughly re- 

 claimed and taught, but to take fufficient time to teach them. And he affirmeth, 

 that if a Hawk be too much impoveriftied and her flefh taken off, (he will lofe her 

 fpiritand mettle, how good foever (he was, and will neither fly well, nor ever laft 

 healthful. ] 



Now it will be good time to call her loofe. In doing which fhun all places near 

 Houfes and Towns, to avoid the inconveniences of her being tempted afide by Poul- 

 try, Do ve-houles, and fuch like places, which all thefe Hawks are fubjecl: to 3 and 

 having once caught fuch an ill property they will leldom or never be reclaimed from 

 it, how far foever from any Town they (hall be flown : Walk therefore with her to 

 the young Woods betimes in the afternoon, having before prepared her ftomach, 

 and there put her up into a tree, walking along from her, ufing your voice foftly as 

 though you had Spaniels with you, but chiefly to her in chirping and whiffling : By 

 which means no doubt (he will draw and follow after you with little noife, Then 

 fuffer her not too long, but call her to your fift again, and reward her with fbrae bit 

 of meat, or Leg of a Pigeon, &c. to pleafe her. Then put her up again, and by 

 your fofteft voice or whiffle draw her after you again. To ufe a loud voice would 

 be a means to make her fit and loiter behind you fo far as (he can hear you, which is 

 an ill quality : And befides, to make your Spaniels range far off, and fpring out 

 of the way far from you, which muft needs be much difpleafing both to Man and 

 Hawk. 



To make your Hawk familiar with your Dogs, firft feed her amongft them all very 

 oft upon your Fift : Then throw oftentimes from you among the thickeft of them 

 the dead Pelt of a Pullet or Hen in a fhort Cruce, that (he may fly from your Fift, 

 and eagerly chop among them, and feife upon the fame, fuffering her to plume a 

 while : then take her to your Fift with a ftump. This courfe you muft ufe every day 

 often,till you find that fhe will venture boldly among them all. She will foon perceive 

 and underftand by the Dogs giving way with fear unto her, that fhe hath even got the 

 upper hand of them, and fo will never fear them in the field or covert, or be beaten 

 off her Game by them, as other wife fhe would. 



$. VI. 



To enter a Gofljawhjo fly to the field. 



Ptvovide three or four hand-Partridges, with a companion, and one couple of 

 ftaunch Spaniels $ then go into the field, having prepared your Hawk with ap- 

 petite and courage to fly. Then one of you (hall go near hand from the other unto 

 fbme bufhesor other covert, whereas he {hall fpend his voice to the Dogs after the 

 accuftomed manner, and ufing fome blows with his Pole, he fhall fecretly let the Par- 

 tridge fpring as from forth the fame, with fuch jndgment in the delivery as that the 

 Hawk may fee it, crying with a loud voice, Howe, Howe, Howe, that (he may learn 

 to know the word of warning, when fhe fhould at any other time look about her,and 

 be watchful at an inftant to take her advantage. This done, and your Hawk flying 

 after it withfpirit, and taking it, befure with all expedition to get into her, that no 

 Dog or other thing may fright her, or deprive her of it : But fuller her to plume and 

 take her pleafure on it, and further to take bloud thereon, ftill having the Spaniels 

 in fight clofe by her. Then you muft teach her to take the head in her foot, and eat 

 it on the ground : And when fhe hath fo done, and looketh about her, having your 

 Spaniels by you , through the Partridges pelt ( as before in her firft teaching) once 

 among the Dogs, and let her take it being in her Leafh, that file may not carry it from 

 you: And whilft fhe fits there and plumes make her flipper ready 5 take her gently 

 to your Fift, and there content her. By thus ordering and ufing of her, you will 

 without doubt very fuddenly have an excellent Hawk: And by all means fly her to 

 the field all the firft year, and let her not fee the Pbeafant at all, for that will 

 draw her love from the Partridge, and make her give them over, being a fhorter 

 flight. 



When you havethus entred and bloiided her, and alfo killed three or four Par- 

 tridges more from the mark at theretrive, and perceive that fhe knows a Partridge by 

 fight, and the accuftomed terms, and will go readily from the Fift thereto} befure, 

 that ah the fore-part of the year you let her go no more one flight in ten, near to the 

 riling of her Game, for that will make her ilothful 3 the Partridge being then weak, 



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