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The Animal-Lore of ShaJcspeare’s Time. 
Within her talents ; and you saw her pawes 
Full of the feathers : both her petty singles, 
And her long singles, grip’d her more than other; 
The terrials of her legges were stain’d with blood: 
Not of the fowle onely she did discomfite 
Some of her feathers, but she brake away. 
Come, come, your hawke is but a rifler. 
Char. How?” 
The dispute waxes warm, and ends in a fight between the 
rival sportsmen and their retainers, in which Sir Francis 
is slain. 
Any bells were thought good enough for sparrow- 
hawks, but for goshawks those made at Milan were most 
highly prized. They were made partly of silver, and 
hence were sufficiently expensive. 
Shakspeare notices these musical appendages to the 
falcon:—- 
“ Harmless Lucretia, marking what he tells, 
With trembling fear, as fowl hears falcon’s bells.” 
(.Lucrece , line 510.) 
And in a similar passage, Du Bartas writes :— 
<f Even as a duck, that nigh some crystal brook 
Hath twice or thrice by the same hawk been strook, 
Hearing aloft her gingling silver bels, 
Quivers for fear, and looks for nothing else 
But when the falcon, stooping thunder-like, 
With sudden souse her to the ground shall strike ; 
An d with the stroak, make on the senseless ground 
The gutless quar, once, twice, or thrice, rebound.” 
(Page 170.) 
To return to the extract from Heywood. xin explana¬ 
tion of some of the technical terms there used may be 
found in Gervase Markham’s edition of The Booh of St. 
Albans, 1595. The writer describes the finding of the 
quarry in a river or pit, and says :— 
“ If shee [the hawk] nyme, or take, the further side of the river or pit, 
from you, then she slaieth the foule at ferejuttie: but if she kill it on 
