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“ I chose an eagle, and did avoid a puttock.” 
And the superiority of the eagle is .again adverted to 
by Hastings, in Richard III. (Act i. Sc. i):— 
“ More pity that the eagle should be mew’d, 
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.” 
The intractable disposition of the kite is thus noticed :— 
“ Another way I have to man my haggard, 
To make her come, and know her peeper’s call ; 
That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites, 
That bate, and beat, and will not be obedient.” 
Taming of the Shrew , Act iv. Sc. I. 
A wild hawk was sometimes tamed by watching it 
night and day, to prevent its sleeping. In “ An approved 
treatyse of Hawks and Hawking,” by Edmund Bert, 
Gent., which was published in London in 1619, the author 
says:—“ I have heard of some who watched and kept 
their hawks awake seven nights and as many days, and 
then they would be wild, rammish, and disorderly.” This 
practice is often alluded to by Shakespeare :— 
“You must be watclid ere you be made tame, must you ?” 
Troilus and Cressida , Act iii. Sc. 2. 
“ I ’ll watch him tame.” 
Othello , Act iii. Sc. 3. 
