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that side that you are yourselfe, as many times it chanceth, then you 
shall say shee killed the foule at the jutty ferry , if your hawke nyme 
the foule aloft, you shall say she tooke it at the mount. If you see 
store of mallards separate from the river and feeding in the fielde, if 
your hawke flee covertly under hedges, or close by the ground, by 
which means she nymeth one of them before they can rise, you shall 
say, that foule was killed at the querre.” 
Guillim, in his work on heraldry, gives some of the 
phrases employed by falconers. This list, as the terms 
so constantly recur in Shakspeare and elsewhere, it may 
be well to quote :— 
“ A hawk is said to bate , when she striveth to fly from the fist. 
She is said to rebate, when by the motion of the bearer’s hand she re- 
covereth the fist. 
“ You must say, c Feed your hawk,’ and not c Give her meat.’ 
A hawk is said, after she hath fed she smiteth or sweejpeth her 
beak, and not wipeth her beak or bill. 
“ By the beak of an hawk is understood the upper part which is 
hooked; the neather part of the beak is called the hawk’s dap. The 
holes in the hawk’s beak are called her nares. The yellow between 
the beak and the eyes is called the sere. Hawks of long, small beak- 
feathers like hairs about the sere, are properly called crinites. 
“ You must say your hawk jouketli, and not sleepeth. She man- 
tleth , (and not stretcheth), when she extendeth one of her wings along 
her legs, and so the other. After she hath thus mantled herself, she 
crosseth her wings together over her back, which action you shall term 
the warbling of her wings, and say, she warbleth her wings. 
“ You shall cast your hawk to the perch, and not set your hawk 
upon the perch.” (Display of Heraldry , p. 218, 6th ed., 1724.) 
Marco Polo, a traveller passionately fond of hawking, 
loses no opportunity of mentioning the falcons and hawks 
of the countries he explores. According to him the 
Tartars were most enthusiastic sportsmen, and carried on 
this amusement with true Eastern magnificence. In one 
portion of his work he describes the Khan of Tartary 
setting out on a hunting expedition, attended by— 
“ full ten thousand followers, who carry with them a vast number of 
gerfalcons, peregrine falcons, and sakers, as well as many vultures, in 
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