246- The Animal-Lore of Shakspeare’s Time . 
gosehawk: the musket and the sparhawke : the jack and the hobbie: 
and finally some (though very few) marlions. And these are all the 
hawkes that I do heare (as yet) to be bred within this iland. ,r 
(Holinshed, vol. i. p. 381.) 
Derricke, in the Image of Ireland , published 1581 
gives the varieties of hawks found in that island — 
“ The goshauke, first of all the crewe 
Deserves to have the name; 
The faucon next for high attemptes. 
In glorie, and in fame. 
The tarsell then ensueth on, 
Good reason ’tis that he, 
For flying haukes in Ireland next 
• The faucon plaste should bee. 
The tarsell gentle’s course is nexte, 
The fourthe peer of the lande, 
Combined to the faucon with 
A lovers friendly bande. 
The pretie marlion is the fifth, 
To her the sparhauke nexte, 
And then the jacke and musket laste,. 
By whom the birds are vexte. 
These are the haukes which cheefly breed 
In fertile Irish grounde; 
Whose marche for flight and speedie wyng, 
Elsewhere be hardly founde.” 
The peregrine was the largest of the true falcons, or 
g falcon ^ on g _w i n g ec ^ hawks, found in Britain. The 
Ger-falcon of Iceland and Scandinavia was 
occasionally imported, but, owing to its great strength 
and fierceness, the time required for training this species- 
rendered it so expensive that it was usually reserved for 
royalty. Hakluyt mentions that among the presents- 
sent by the Czar Ivan Basiliewitz, by his ambassador^ 
to Queen Mary, 1556, was “ a large and fair white jer- 
fawcon, for the wild swan, crane, goose, and other great 
fowls.” 
