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THE LURE AND ITS USE. 
however, it was often found necessary to use a live pigeon, 
secured to a string by soft leather jesses, in order to recall 
them.* 
The long-winged hawks were always brought to the 
lure, the short-winge.d ones to the hand :— 
“ As falcon to the lure, away she flies.” 
Venus and Adonis. 
The game flown at was called in hawking parlance the 
“ quarry,” and differed according to the hawk that was 
used. The gerfalcon and peregrine were flown at herons, 
ducks, pigeons, rooks, and magpies ; the goshawk was 
used for hares and partridges; while the smaller kinds, 
such as the merlin and hobby, were trained to take black¬ 
birds, larks, and snipe. The French falconers, however, do 
not appear to have been so particular:— 
“ We ’ll e’en to’t like French falconers, fly at anything 
we see.”— Hamlet , Act ii. Sc. 2. 
The word “ quarry” occurs in many of the Plays. 
“ This ‘ quarry ’ cries on havoc.”*)* 
Hamlet , Act v. Sc. 2. 
* Salvin and Brodrick, “ Falconry in the British Islands,” pp. 38, 39. 
f To “ cry on” anything was a familiar expression formerly. In Othello (Act v. 
Sc. 1), we read— 
“Whose noise is this that ‘ cries on ’ murder ?” 
And in Richard III. (Act v. Sc. 3), Richmond says :— 
“ Methought, their souls, whose bodies Richard murder’d, 
Came to my tent, and ‘ cried on’ victory.” 
To “cry havoc” appears to have been a signal for indiscriminate slaughter. 
