HAWKING TERMS. 
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Card. I thought as much ; he’d be above the clouds. 
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Believe me, cousin Gloster, 
Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly, 
We had had more sport.” 
“ Flying at the brook ” is synonymous with “ hawking 
by the river,” and shows us that the party were in pursuit 
of water-fowl. Chaucer speaks of 
“ Ryding on, hawking by the river, 
With grey goshawk in hand.” 
“Point'd —The fluttering or hovering over the spot 
where the “ quarry ” has been “ put in.” 
“ Pitch'd —The height to which a hawk rises before 
swooping. 
“ How high a pitch his resolution soars !” 
Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 
“ Towerd —A common expression in falconry, signifying 
to rise spirally to a height. Compare the French “tourd 
The word occurs again in Macbeth , Act ii. Sc. 4, with 
reference to a fact which we might well be excused for 
doubting, did we not know that it was related as an 
unusual circumstance:— 
“ On Tuesday last, 
A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.” 
