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See me, or see me not! The partridge sprung, 
He makes his stoop ; hut wanting breath is forced 
To cancelier; then with such speed as if 
He carried lightning in his wings, he strikes 
The trembling bird, who even in death appears 
Proud to be made his quarry.” 
( The Guardian , i. 1.) 
To bind with is to seize. A hawk was said to cancelier 
when she circled once or twice in the air before she 
swooped down on her prey. 
In the play by Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed 
with Kindness , 1607, a quarrel during a hawking expe¬ 
dition forms the groundwork of the plot. In the follow¬ 
ing extract we have evidence of the care that was 
bestowed on details so minute as the tone of the bells 
attached to the falcon’s legs 
“ Charles. So, well cast off; aloft, aloft, well fiowne: 
0 now she takes her at the sowse, and strikes her 
Downe to the earth, like a swift thunder-clap. 
Wendoll. She hath stroke ten angels out of my way. 
Francis. A hundred pound from me. 
Charles. What, faulc’ner ? 
Paul. At hand, sir. 
Charles. Now she hath seis’d the fowle, and gins to plume her, 
Rebecke her not; rather stand still and checke her. 
So: seise her gets, her jesses, and her bels: 
Away. 
Francis. My hawke kill’d too. 
Char. I, but ’twas at the querre, 
Not at the mount, like mine. 
Fran. Judgement, my masters. 
Cran. Yours mist her at the ferre. 
Wend. I, but our merlin first had plum’d the fowle, 
And twice renew’d her from the river too ; 
Her bels, Sir Francis, had not both one waight, 
Nor was one semi-tune above the other: 
Mee thinkes these millaine bels do sound too full. 
And spoile the mounting of your hawke. 
Char. ’Tis lost. 
Fran. I grant it not. Mine likewise seised a fowle 
