THE CADGE. 
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That bate , and beat, and will not be obedient. 
She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat; 
Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not.” 
Taming of the Shrew , Act iv. Sc. 1 
The word “ stoop,” sometimes written “ stoup ” (Spenser’s 
“Faerie Queene,” Book I. Canto XI. 18), and “swoop” 
[Macbeth, “ at one fell swoop ”), signifies a rapid descent 
on the “ quarry.” It occurs again in Henry V. Act iv. 
Sc. 1 :— 
“ And though his affections are higher mounted than 
ours, yet, when they stoop , they stoop with the like wing.” 
The hawks, when carried to the field, were borne on 
“ the cadge,” as shown in the engraving; the person 
