Falconry. 
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“ A puttocke set on pearch, fast by a falcons side, 
Will quickly shew it selfe a kight, as time hath often tried.” 
Du Bartas, in his poem on the Creation (p. 66), trans¬ 
lated by Sylvester, mentions-— 
“ The ravening kite, whose train doth well supply 
A rudders place.” 
Drayton has the same idea :— 
“ The kite his train him guiding in the air, 
Prescribes the helm, instructing how to steer.” 
{The Owl.) 
In the time of Elizabeth no amusement was more 
universally popular than falconry. Every 
class could partake of it; and as the quarry Falconr y- -= 
pursued included almost all the wild birds, herons, wild 
duck, partridges, blackbirds, as well as hares, there was 
no difficulty in finding game. In Ben Jonson’s Every 
Man in his Humour (act i. sc. 1), Master Stephen, a young 
man coming from the country to begin his career as a 
fashionable town gentleman, inquires immediately at his 
cousin’s house in London— 
“ Uncle, afore I go in, can you tell me, an he have e’er a book of 
the sciences of hawking and hunting; I would fain borrow it. 
Knowell. Why, I hope you will not a hawking now, will you ? 
Stephen. No, wusse; but I’ll practise against next year, uncle. I 
have bought me a hawk, and a hood, and bells, and all; I lack nothing 
but a book to keep it by. 
Knowell. 0, most ridiculous ! 
Stephen. Nay, look you now, you are angry, uncle:—why, you 
know an a man have not skill in the hawking and hunting languages 
now-a-days, I’ll not give a rush for him: they are more studied than 
the Greek, or the Latin.” 
Mr. Harting, himself an enthusiastic lover of this 
sport, and an advocate for its revival in our own time, 
has so fully described the different kinds of falcons and 
hawks employed, together with the terms and appliances 
