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I. : 
Inke, whether it be of partridge, fowl, 
doves, or any other prey, is the neck 
from the head to the body. 
Intermewed, is from the first exchange 
of a hawk’s coat, or from her first mewing, 
till she come to be a white hawk. 
Jesses, are those short straps of leather 
which are fastened to the hawk’s legges, 
and so to the lease by varvels, anlets, or 
such like. 
Li 
_ Lure, is that whereto faulconers call 
their young hawks, by_casting it up in 
the aire, being made of feathers and lea- 
ther, in such wise, that in the motion it 
_Jooks not unlike a fowl.. 
Leuse, or Leashe, is a small long thong 
ef leather, by which the faulconer hold- 
eth his hawk fast, folding it many times 
about their fingers. 
; Eve, are a small kinde of white ver- 
nin, running amongst the feathers of the 
hawk. 
M. 
Muting, is the excrements, or ordure, 
which comes from hawks, and containeth 
both dung and urine. 
A make- Hawk, is an old stanch flying 
hawk, which being inur’d to her flight, 
will easily instruct a younger hawk to be 
waining in her prey. 
_ Managing, is to handle any thing 
with cunning, according to the true 
nature thereot. 
Mew, is that place, whether it be 
abroad or in the house, where you set 
down your hawk, during the time that she 
raseth her feathers. 
Mites, are a kind of vermine apalice 
than lice, and most about the heads and 
hares of hawks, o 
Pluming, is when a hawk seizeth a 
fowl, and pulleth the feathers from the 
body. 
Plumage, are small downy feathers 
which the hawk takes, or are given her 
for casting. 
Pelt, is the dead, body of any fowl, 
howsoever dismembered. 
Pill, aid Fel, of a fowl, is that refuse 
and broken remains w hich are left after 
the hawk hath been retieved. 
Plume, is the generall colour, or 
mixtures of feathersin a hawk, which 
shewetlh her constitation. 
Pearch, is any thing whereon you set 
your hawk, when she. is from yor fist. 
Prey, is any thing that a hawk killeth, 
end. feedeth herself thereupon. 
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Scarce Tracts, Ke. 
fAug. 3; 
Pannell, is that part of the hawk next 
to the fundament, whether the hawk 
digesteth her meat from her body. 
Quarrie, is taken for the fowl whick 
is flowf at, and’slain at any time, espe- 
cially when young. hawks are flown 
thereunto. 
i. 
Rufter hood, is the first hood wisi a 
hawk weareih, being large, wide, and 
open behinde. 
Reclaming, is to tame, make gentle, 
or to bring a hawk to familiarity with the 
man, 
Raised in flesh, is when a hawk grows 
fat, or prospereth in flesh, 
Ramuge, is when a hawke is wilde, 
coy, or disdainfull to the man, and con- 
trary to be reclamed. i 
Ss. 
Seizing, is when a hawk taketh any 
thing into = foot, and gripeth or hold- 
eth it fast, 
Sliming, is when a hawk muteth from 
her long-wayes, in one entire substance, 
and doth not drop any part thereof. 
Stooping, is when a hawk, being upon 
her wings at the hight of her pitch, ben- 
deth violently down to strike the fowl or 
any other prey. 
Summ’d, is when a hawk hath all her 
feathers, and is fit either to be taken from 
the crie or mew. 
Setting-down, is when 4 hawk is put 
into the mew, 
Sore-hawk, is from the first taking of 
her from the eiry, till she have mewed 
her feathers. 
a 
Trussing, is when a hawk raseth a fowl 
aloft, ae so descendeth down with it to 
the ground. 
U. 
Unsumm’d, is when a hawk’s feathers 
are not come furth, or else not com’d 
home to their full length. 
W. 
Weathering, is when you set your 
hawk abroad. to take the aire, either by 
day or night, in the frost, or in the sunne, 
or at any Other season.” 
‘¢ Four Letters, and Certaine Sonnets. 
Lond. imprinted by R. Wolfe, 1492.” 
410. 
The chief curiosity in this pamphlet is 
a sonnet from Spenser to his friend 
Gabriel Harvey, here extracted : 
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