maintaine her in state during the cure It will bée good for you to vse the helpe of some Apothecary for the confection of the playster as also for your lotion or bath for the more artificially it is made the better effect it wil take Truly it doth stand with good reason that it will recure your Hawke the receit is so good All the care must be in the dainty handling of the broken member and in rolling and spletting it orderly Of the stripes and bruises in a Hawke HAwks are wont diuerse times to receiue stripes blows by other fowles as the Falcon by encounter w t a heron and sometimes by some other accident as by carrying her in a hawkes bag vpon occasion or by rashing into bushes thorns or such like hurtfull places These stripes and hurts either are simple hurts as they are termed that is to say in the skinne and flesh of a hawke only or else compounds as when a nerue and sinow is prickt or cut in sunder The simple wounds and hurts are of slender or no danger at all and will bee cecured lightly againe eyther with the iuyce of Orgium or a bath and lotion made of Masticke Aloes and Myrrhe two drammes Pympernell Comfrey and Sage of eyther a handfull and a halfe of Agresta cleare and good sixe pounds putting all these thinges aforesaide into a stone vessell made very cleane or else into an earthen potte there suffering it to boyle so long with a close couer vppon it vntill two third parts of the Agresta be wasted and consumed Then strayning it very well adding vnto it one Ounce of powder of Myrtils This may you reserue to vse as a blessed and soueraigne medicine There is yet one other notable medicine deuised by Master Fredericke Zorz and oftentimes approued by mée with very good successe Take good Aloes Myrrhe Olibanum Sarguis Draconis of eyther one dramme of fine Grains one scruple beat al these into powder and infuse them in two ounces of Aqua vitae for the space of twelue howres then after straine it very wel of this vse to the hurts of your hawkes head and also to her shoulders if they receiue any bruise or stripe But in any condition I cannot allow the vse of Oyle of Roses in hurts of the head as it sames that the said Authour would haue it If your hawkes skinne of her thigh or hinder parts be broken fretted away or hurt by bearing her in a close Canuas bagge or such like you may easily recouer her with this deuise The leaues of dried Sage beaten to powder or the powder of Olibanum or Masticke bathing the hurt with white wine whē you meane to apply the powder and in two or thrée dayes you shall sée it recouered But if the stripe bée ioyned and matched with the offence of any nerue or sinew then will it be a harder matter to cure for that the hurt is of greater importance and danger for then is it wont to be full of paine and to cause inflammation Wherfore in this case the best remedy that can be deuised is excel-cellent good oyle powred reasonable hote into the hurt taking away the feathers first that are about the wound and vsing this bath about the member where the hurt is Take Roch Alome one dramme dried Roses rinds of Pomegranates and Myrrhe of each a quantity boyling all these in good odoriferous White Wine to the consumption of halfe No question this will greatly comfort the wound and hinder the fluxe of humors that otherwise would flow downe to the place and bréede an Apostume Much more might be said of stripes and bruises of hawkes but I doe leaue you ouer to the learned Phisitions skilfull Surgeons because I will not ouerweary you with tedious circumstances accounting it sufficient for mée to haue laide downe the cures for most ordinary hurts which do rifest happen to hawks and of such as haue times past by fortune come to my handes If you couet to haue greater store of Medicines for the cure of any member or hurt part of your hawke I aduise you that haue skill in the Italian tongue to slée ouerto Mess er Frederigo Giorgi his practise plainely and excellently set downe in his Booke of Falconrie from whence I haue collected sundry things But as touching these hurtes and stripes of hawkes I haue not borrowed much of him but haue in this part of my collection more vsed the briefe cure of Francesco Sforzino Vicentine that excellent Italian Gentleman Falconer Of Hawkes Lyse Hauing hetherto spoken of such diseases and gréefes as for the most part hawkes are troubled withall within their bodies now remayneth that in few spéeches I shew you a remedy for vermine and Lise a particular passion and affection that lighteth on the skin of a hawke and specially about her head the plye of her wings and her traine for indéede these lise and mytes doe chiefly raigne and lodge in those thrée parts of the hawkes more than in any other Falconers doe vse to ridde these vile wormes and lise in the winter time by takfng of pepper beatē to powder two drams of warme water one pound or as much as will suffice mingling the pepper and water well together and thē to pepper as we terme it or wash all her feathers with the saide lotion or bath and specially those parts of the hawke whereof I spake before where the mites and lise doe most haunt which done they set the hawke on a perch with her traine and backe to the Sunneward holding in their hands a small stick one handful long on the toppe whereof they fasten a péece of waxe either red or gréene with that while the Hawk doth weather her they take away the lise and mytes crawling vpon the fethers so as before the hawk be throughly dried and weathered what with the waxe and their own dropping away there wil not be a vermine leff about the hawke For the pepper and water doth so much disease them as they are enforced to leaue their accustomed lodgings then the heat of the Sun or fire helps to make them shew themselues and the waxe by cleauing to thē vtterly and clearely rids the hawke of them I haue séene some Falconers adde vnto the pepper water a quantity of Stauesager as an enemy to the lise and mites by meane of strength and force that is in it and I take it to be very necessary to be added in this medicine to the Pepper for the better dispatch of those vile vermines which doe so much vexe and annoy the hawke as shée can by no means kéepe her selfe in good state whilest shée is incumbred with them You must remember to pepper you hawke in this maner as I haue shewed you in a very warm sunny day when there is no wind at all blowing in the skie But if by fortune you be enforced to doe it in another time when the weather is cold and the Sunne not
and leaue sondry things which I leaue vnspoken of for that there is no man that is desirous of skill but may with ease and will with dilygence I doubt not flée ouer to those very Authors in French and Italian from whence I haue made this briefe collection where he shall be assured to find things more at large set out but the effect vnlesse I be deceyued comprised in these few pages of paper aswell concerning the kinds of Hawkes as also their manning luring flights mewing diseases and cures in euery condition as I trust to the pleasure and profit of the gentle and willing reader Wherefore I will now procéede to the Haggart Falcon a most excellent bird if her nature and property be obserued in due maner Of the Haggart Falcon and why shee is called the Peregrine or Haggart I Haue many times studied with my selfe for what cause the Haggart Falcons the most excellent birds of all other Falcons haue béen tearmed Haggart or Peregrine Hawks And at first was of opinion that men so called thē for that they are brought vnto vs from farre and forraine Countries and are in déede méere strangers in Italie and as a man may call them trauailers And this I know for truth they are not disclosed or eyred in Italie and besides that there are few in Italie that do take them at any time but the greatest store of them are brought and conueied thither from forrane Regions but if they should be tearmed peregrine or Haggart Falcōs for this only cause onely in respect hereof nothing else then might we as well bestow that name also vpon all other Falcons y t are not bred in Italy as vpon the Tunitian other Hawkes that are passengers Wherefore I am of opinion that for thrée causes principally and in cheife they are called Haggart or peregrine Falcons 1 First because a man connot find nor euer yet did any man Christian or Heathen find their eyrie in any Region so as it may well be thought that for that occasion they haue atchiued and gotten that name and terme of Peregrine or Haggart falcons as if a man would call them Pilgrims or Forrainers 2 The second cause is because these Falcons do rangle and wander more than any other sort of Falcons are wont to doe séeking out more strange and vncouth countries which indeede may giue them that title of Haggart peregrine hawks for theyr excellency because they do séeke somany strange forraine coasts and do rangle so farr abroad 3 The Third and last cause I doe thinke may be their beauty and excellency because this word Peregrino or Peregrine doth many times import an honourable choice matter had in great regard but it skilleth not much which of these thrée alleadged is the true cause wée will not stand vpon that nice point for that a good Falconer ought much more to regard the scearching out of the true nature and property of Hawkes then to haue so great and speciall respect vnto their names and tearmes Wherefore I conclude that these Haggart Falcons are not of Italie but transported and brought thither from forraine places as namely from Alexandria Ciprus and Candy And yet this is for certaine that in Italie there are taken of these Haggart Falcons as in the dominion of the renowned Duke of Ferrara in the countrie neare Rauenna being brought thither by force of weather and wind And by that meanes there are none of those Haggarts found Eyesses but they are al either soare Hawkes or mewed Haggarts Of shape and proportion they are like the other Falcons are of thrée sorts as touching their making and mould that is to say large little or Falcons of a middle size Some of them are long shapt some short trussed Falcons some larger some lesse They are ordinarily of foure mayles eyther blancke russet browne or turtle mayld and some pure white maylde without any iote or sport of any other colour but those a man shall very seldome sée And for that cause I meane not to say much of that kind of mayled Falcons but will deale with such as are more ordinarie in vse Of the good shape of a Haggart Falcon. A Good and right Haggart Falcon ought to haue her head of darke or blanck plume flat on the toppe with a white wreath or garland enuironing her head a large blew bending beake widenares a great ful blacke eye hie stately necke large breast broad shouldred a great feather in colour like the feather of a Turtle long vaines and sayles but slender shapte long traine high thighes and white on the inside I meane her pendant feathers short and great armed large wide foot with slender stretchers and falons and the same to bée eyther pale white maylde or pale blewish tending somewhat to azure These are generally the most assured tokens of an excellent Haggart Falcon. How to know a Haggart by her fleeing A Good skilfull Falconer will quickly discern a good Haggart Falcon from a sleight Falcon though he be far off by the stirring of her wings For that a Haggart Falcon vseth not a thick stroke but stirreth her wing by leasure and seldom getteth vp to her mountée without any great making out And although perhaps she be not so large as the fleight or soare Falcon yet to séeming and shew she is more large which happeneth by meane of her sayles which in very déed are of greater scope and compasse than the fleight Falcons are Contrariwise the fleight Falcon shee vseth a more short and quicker stroke with her wing then the Haggart doth doth not deale so leasurely There are besids this one difference sondry other betwixt these two kinds of Falcons which in this place I will deliuer you for that you shall the better iudge the ods betwixt them béeing both very good Falcons and the best of all other both for field and riuer The difference and ods betwixt the Haggart and the Falcon Gentle FOr that diuers haue delight to know the difference betwixt the Falcon Gentle and the Haggart I will here shew you certaine speciall points concerning the difference of them both First the Haggart is a larger hawke then the Falcon gentle and a longer armed Hawke with a reasonable large foot and her talons more long then the Falcon Gentles are a hie necke and a long a fayre seasoned head and a more long beake then the other hath 1 The beam feathers of the Haggart as shée is in her slight are longer then the Falcon gentles her traine somewhat larger the Haggart hath a flatte thigh but the Falcon gentle a round thigh 2 The Haggart will lie longer on her wings thē the Falcon Gentle and hath a more deliberate and leasurely stroke then the other Falcon hath as I sayd before 3 From the fist it is reported by some that the Falcon Gentle doth flie more spéedily then the Haggart but at a long flight the Haggart is farre the better of
then any other kind of Falcon. And some hold opinion that those Laners that haue the largest and best seasoned heads the seare of the foot azure or blewish be the Eyesses or soare Hawkes they are the best and choyest Laners With this Hawke may you flye the riuers a well with the Laner as the Laneret for they are both good likewise may you vse them to other kinds of flights and specially to the field to kill the Partridge the Fesant the Hare the Choffe y e Dawe and all such sort of lesser fowle The Laner is not ouer dainty of her féeding but can better brooke grosse and course victailes then any Falcon else can do Mewed Laners and Sacres are hardly knowne from the soare Hawkes because they do not change their plume By these thrée signes you shall best knowe the Laner They are more blancke Hawkes then any other they haue lesse beakes then the rest and are lesse armed and pounced thē other Falcons be The Laners of all Hawkes are the fittest for young Falconers because they will hardly take surfaits seldome be ouerflowne or melt their grease Of the Italian Author THe Laners doe commonly Eyre in the Alpes that diuide Italy from Almaine some of them are reasonable hawks some of a middle sute and some lesse Their heads are white flat aloft blacke and large eyed slender nares short beake thicke and lesser then the Haggart Falcons or the Falcon gentle They are marble or russet mailde the brest feathers white full of russet spots the points and extremities of their feathers full of round white droppes Their sayles and traynlong they are short legged with a foot somewhat lesse then the Falcons marble seered but béeing mewed they change the seere of the foot to a yellow These Hawkes will brooke to ffée long on their wings after their maner and when they espie one that goeth abroad with a Sparowhawke to the field they presently follow couer the spaniels so as no sooner is the sparowhawk cast off to the partridge but if shée misse or come short of her game the Laner stoopeth with great nimblenesse of wing and eyther killeth the fowle or otherwise enforceth it to stoope and fall amid the flight to the ground You shall neuer lightly sée a Laner lie vpon the wings after shée hath flien to marke but after one stouping she maketh a point and then doth awaite for the fowle after the maner of a Goshawke for if she misse at the first downe-come of kill not in the foote she is by nature so slothfull and dull as shée will séeke the aduantage to her greatest ease and therefore dooth commonly vse vpon the questing and call of the Spaniels to attend very diligently and so to prey at her pleasure They are highly estéemed in France as they say ther made to the riuer and there doe they vse to flée with the a caste or leash of Laners to the brooke and sometimes with the Laners and Lanerets together and sometimes doe flée the field with the Laner but in Italy they doe not vse this kinde of hawke at all With vs in England this kind of Hawke is in price but accounted very slothfull and hard mettled so as vnlesse you kéepe a very hard hand vpon her shée will doe little good cleane contrary to the nature of a Falcon gentle who for one good vsage will shew a treble curtesie and the better she is rewarded the better will shée flée but vse the Laner wel and shée maketh slender account therof but becommeth slothfull and vnapt to flée eyther field or riuer Of the Tunicion Falcon. THe Tunicion is a Falcon euen much of the nature of a laner yet somwhat lesse than the Laner but very like her in plume and foote alwaies more sluggish heauie in her slight and yet more créese then the Laner and shée hath a large round head The cause why shee is called a Tunycian THis Falcon is tearmed a Tunician for that ordinarily most vsually shée is found to eyre in Barbarie euen as I haue reported to you that the Laner doth in France and otherwhere And because Tunyce is the head and chiefe Cittie in all Barbarie and the Prince and state there commorant and most abiding holding the Court there and do most chifely vse to flée with these kinde of Falcons of all others they are most chiefly tearmed Tunycians The Tunycian may also be called a Punycian Falcon for that which we reade of the warres Punicke against the Carthaginenses being maintayned against the inhabitants of that pace where now is situated Tunyce The Tunycian is large approaching néere the nature of a Laner and very like in plume and male and not vnlike for the seare of her foot but somewhat lesse and of a longer slight her head is large and round They are excellent good for the riuer and will lye well vpon their wings and flye the field well as I haue sayd before of the Laner They doe naturally take pleasure to strike and seaze vpon the Hare and all other kind of prey whatsoeuer This kind of Falcons is not so ordinarie or common in all parts and regions as other hawkes are saue onely in Barbarie and Tunyce Of the Merlyn THere is a kind of Falcon that is called a Merlyn These Merlyns are very much like the haggart falcon in plume in seare of the foot in beake and tallons So as there sameth to be no ods or difference at all betwixt them saue only in the bignesse for she hath like demeanure like plume very like conditions to the Falcon and in her kind is of like courage therefore must be kept as choicely and as daintily as the Falcon. Assuredly diuers of these Merlyns become passing good Hawkes and very skilfull their property by nature is to kill Thruthes Larkes Partridges They flee with greater fircenes more hotely then any other hawke of prey They are of greater pleasure and full of courage but a man must make greater care and take good héed to them for they are such busie vnruely things with their beakes as diuers times they eate off their own feet and talons very vnnaturally so as they die of it And this is the reason and true cause that seldom or neuer shall you see a mewed or entermewed Merlin For that in the mew they doe spoyle themselues as I haue before declared My Italian Authour hath these words both of the shape and in commendation of the Merlin The Merline is saith he of the shape of a Falcon lesse than the Sparowhawke more nimble and wight of wing than any other Hawke she doth kill all such game and prey as the Sparowhawk doth vse to slay specially smal birds namely Larks Sparowes and such like all which shée doth pursue with excéeding cruelty and courage She is reported to be a Hawke of the fist and not of the lure albeit a man may if he will make her to the
as the flesh of Pullets Chickens Pigeons and such like for otherwise her wings will not grow to any perfection and her legs and other parts would quicklie be broken waxe crooked and her traine feathers and for the most part all her long feathers and flags be full of taints The good shape of a Falcon. THat you may the better make choyce of your Falcon and know a good Falcon from a refuse I will discribe you the perfect shape of a right good Falcon such a one as is very like to bée good though many times wée sée that in proofe the most likely things to shew and to the eye becom in proofe the worst and of least regard The shape of a good Falcon therefore is first to haue wide nares high and large eye-liddes a great blacke eye a round head some what full on the toppe a short thicke beake blew as azure a reasonable high necke barbe feathers vnder the clappe of the beake a good large breast round fleshly strong hard and stiffe bonded And that is the true cause why the Falcon doth greatly affie in her breast and striketh with it and gageth it most at her encounter And by meane shée is very strong armed shée vseth the more fréely also to strike a foule with her pounces and talons Moreouer shée must be broade shouldred shée must haue slender sayles full sides long and great thighes shée must be strong and short armed large footed with the seare of the foot soft and all one for hew with the seare of the beake and nares blacke pownces long wings and crossing the traine which traine ought to be short and apt to bend and bow to euery side For in the traine of a Hawke doth consist a great helpe when shée flyeth And therefore as well as for beautie if a traine feather or couert feather be broken or bruised we doe couet to ympe them againe or set them to right because it may be the lesse hinderance to the hawke in her flight You must note that those very Falcons that are of one kinde and sort haue very great difference and odds betwixt them and are called by diuers names according to the time that a man beginneth to deale with them and doth vndertake them according to the places where they haunt and according to the Countries whence they come They are diuided into mewed Hakes Rammage hawkes Sore-hawkes and Eyesses into large Hawkes meane hawkes and slender hawes all which are of diuers and seuerall plumes and mayles according to the diuersitie of the regions Also they are of diuers prices according to the goodnesse and estimation of them Againe some are blacke Falcons some russet Falcons some other blanck Falcons some of which are riuer Hawkes to slay the fowle at the brooke and other some field hawkes to flye the land and there to kill the Fesant Partridge and such like fowles Thus you sée how diuers and many they be according to their outwarde accidents and yet in nature all Falcons Therefore because I am to treate of euery kind seuerall I will not longer holde you in this place with description of the Falcon Gentle but hereafter when I write in another place of the diseases cures and the manning of these hawkes I will as neare as I may let passe nothing that shall belong in any respect vnto the Falcon but that in one place or other you shall finde it Of the names of a Falcon according to her age and taking THe first name and tearme that they bestow on a Falcon is an Eyesse and this name doth last as long as shée is in the Eyrie and for that shée is taken from the Eyrie Those Falcons are tedious and doe vse to crie very much in their féeding they are troublesone and painefull to bée entred but being once well entred and quarred they leaue a great part of that vice and doe proue very good to the Hearon and to the riuer and all other kinds of fowle they are hardy and naturally full of good mettle 2 The second name is a ramage Falcon and so shée is called when shee hath departed and left the Eyrie that name doth last and shée is called a ramage Hawke May Iune Iuly and August These Falcons are hard to bée manned by reason of the heat and for that they can ill brooke hunger or to stand emptie panneld but who so can vse them with patience and iudgement shall find them passing good for that they are without fault 3 Thirdly they are called sore Hawkes from the end of August to the last of September October and Nouember Those Hawks are of good disposition they will doe verie well and are in their prime and full pride for beautie and goodnesse Neuerthelesse those first plumes that they haue when they forsake the Eyrie those doe they keepe one whole yeare before they cast or mew them and that kind of feather is called the Sore-feather According to the diuersitie of these tearmes and times these Hawkes doe become better and better to be manned and kept 4 The fourth spéech and tearme that is bestowed on them as my Italian Author doth call them is that they are tearmed Marzaroly and so are they called from Ianuary February March Aprill vntill the middest of May. I haue no proper English phrase for them but they are very tedious and painefull and the reason is for that they must bée kept on the fist all that space Diuers of them are great baters and therefore not very gréedy of meate or hungrie they are but badde Hawkes much subiect to Filanders and the wormes who lookes to winne credit or good by kéeping them must be of good experience and no lesse patience 5 Fiftly they are called Entermewers or Hawkes of the first coate that is from the middle of May till Iune Iuly August September October Nouember December Those Hawkes are called Entermewers for that they cast the old and haue new feathers and they prooue very good and hardy Hawkes but no great trust is to be giuen thē for that they are giddy headed and fickle wherefore he that lookes to haue good or credit by kéeping of them must be very circumspect and regard their natures very well and must kéepe a good hard hand on them and must make his fist their pearch neuer in a maner let them be from the fist And thus vsed they are in that yeare the highest flyers most apt for the riuer Besides in those seuen kindes of Falcons which I spake of in the first diuision there are included sondry sortes tearmed according to the Countries and places where they are eyried and whence they come the speciall names and properties of all which I hold it not so néedfull to discourse vpon speaking fully sufficiently of those seuen kinds of Falcons in their times and places as they shall offer themselues in order vnto mée to bée decyphered vnto the Reader to whose good iudgement and industrie I meane to referre
man should vse an Eyasse Hawke IF you haue Eyasse Hawks you shall féede them most with Poultrie Beefe or Goates flesh and this is done to keepe them from ill toyes and when they bée well lured and trayned then beare them vpon the fist hooded and ordered in all points according to the rule prescribed before in the first chapter and after thirty or forty dayes past bring them to the flight and the first second and third flight you may bée fond ouer them abating your fauour afterwardes by little and little vntill they be brought in perfect tune spowting them oftentimes with Wine and Water For as Martine sayeth some Eyasse Hawkes will not much bath them Neuerthelesse you ought therein also to vse discretion for by often bathing or spowting you may bring your Hawke very low in such sort that shée should haue more néede of a good gorge than of bathing or spowting and especially such Hawkes as are fierce of Nature and will not often bathe of themselues A consideration of the Diversitie of Hawkes Natures acccording to Martine THere are some sortes of Falcons which haue this diuersity of nature that some of them will flye well being hie and full of flesh and some other flée best when they are kept low Wherefore a Falconer should haue especyall consideration thereunto for Falcons are fitte for all flightes as is before saide but the blanke Falcons are of one nature and the blew Falcons of another and the Falcon of the reddish plume hath also her properties diuers from the rest Neuerthelesse to speake as I haue found of all other Hawkes the blancke Falcon is best And both by reason and experience I finde that she would be kept higher and in better plight then other Hawkes for you shall sée the blanke Falcon kéeping a like hand vpon her and other Falcons prooue higher and in better plight when shée is fléeing then any other Hawke And the reason is because shée is very gentle and with more ease manned then any other kind of Falcon and loueth her kéeper better so that thereby shée kéepeth her selfe higher in better plight then such Hawkes as bate much and are froward of condition How to seele a Sparrowhawke and to make her fleeing according to Guillam Tardiffe A Sparowhawke newly taken should be thus vsed take a needle threeded with vntwisted thread and casting your Hawke take her by the beake put the needle through her eye lidde not right against the sight of the eye but somewhat nearer to the beake because she may see backwards And you must take good heed that you hurt not the webbe which is vnder the eye-lidde or on the inside thereof Then put your needle also through that other eye-lidde drawing the endes of the threed together tye them ouer the beake not with a straight knotte but cut off the threedes endes neare to the knotte and twist them together in such sorte that the eye-liddes may be raysed so vpwards that the Hawke may not see at all and when the threede shall waxe loose or vntyed then the Hawke may see somewhat backewardes which is the cause that the threede is put nearer to the beake For a Sparowhawke should see somewhat backewardes and a Falcon forwards The reasō is that if the Sparowhawke should see forwards shée would beate off her feathers or breake them when shée bateth vpon the fist and séeing the companie of men or such like she would bate to much But to trimme your Sparowhawke in her rights shée must haue Iesses of leather the which must haue knottes at the end and they should be halfe a foote long or thereabout at the least a shaft-méete betweene the hoose of the Iesse and the knotte at the end whereby you tye the hawke She should also haue twoo good belles whereby she may be the better heard For commonly when a Sparowhawke taketh any prey shée will carrie it into some thicke bush to féede thereon in such sort that shée cannot lightly be eyther heard or séene and whiles shée plumeth it the plumage doth oftentimes couer both her eyes or one of them then to take away the sayd plumage shée straineth with one of her feet thereby her belles discouer her Therefore if shee had but one bel she might happen to scratte with that foot which lacketh the bell and so should not be heard The Sparowhawks which are wonted to be hooded and which will gently brooke it are much better than they which wil not be hooded For they bate lesse and are with more ease borne in the raine or any euill weather For béeing hooded the Falconer may hide and couor them with his cloke which he cannot do to the other Furthermore they shall bée able to flée better and more strongly that are good weather Hawkes for they shall be lesse bruised than a Hawke which is not hooded which will weary her selfe with bating withall a man may the better flée with them at aduantage because they bate not but onely when you would haue them to flée whereby they haue the greater courage and also a man may beare them in all places without bating or beating themselues out of breath How a man should manne a Sparowhawke and make her fleeing FOr as much as Sparowhawkes are of sundry sortes of plumes and sundry shapes and proportions there are also sundry manners of manning them and making them and there is much lesse paines to bée taken with some one than with some other For the more eager and sharper set that a Sparowhawke is the fooner shall you winne her and man her First to winne her to féede rubbe her féete with warme flesh chirping and wistling to her and sometimes present the flesh vnto her beake and if shée will not yet féed rub her féet with a quick birde and the birde will crye and if the Sparowhawke doe seaze it with her féet it is a token that shée will féede Then teare off the skinne and feathers of the birdes breast and offer it to the Hawkes beake and shée will taste thereof For a Sparowhawke which féedeth immediatly after shée bée taken doth shew that shée is eager and hath good appetite And you may giue her as much more at euening yea and sometimes in the day time so that shée be not gorged first but that shée haue put ouer her meat When shée is thus well entred will féed when you chirpe or wistle to her then may you hood her with an hood that is large déep inough so that it neyther hurt nor touch her eyes when she will indure to be hooded and vnhooded without bating that thée will feede hooded then must you abate her meals giuing her lesse meate and féede her betimes in the morning when she hath endewed that is to say when shée shall haue put ouer her meate so as there remayneth nothing in her gorge then may you giue her a beaching in the day time taking off and putting on againe her hoode to
for that will make her come the better but take héede that you hurt her not in so doing You shall also sometimes call her on horseback And when you haue vsed her thus a month or vntil she come well and roundly and that shée be familiar with the man without any strangenesse or coynesse then myy you stop the lure vpon her and make her flée vpon you But before you do so it shall be méet to bath her least when shée is at libertye she rangle to séeke water and so you might léese your Hawke euery seuen or eight dayes your Hawke should be set to the water for the nature of them so requireth When you haue thus manned reclaimed and lured your Falcon go out with her into the fields and wistle her off your fiste standing still to sée what she will do whether she will rake out or not But if shée flee round vpon you as a good Hawke should flée then let her flée a turne or two which done throw her out the lure and let her foot a hen or a pullet and kill it and féede her well thereupon Vnhoode her often as you beare her and cease so to doe vntill shée haue endewed and mewted sufficiently When your Falcon is thus made and manned go abroad with her euery morning when the weather is fayre and calm and chuse a place for her to flee in where there is some narrow brooke or plash of water And when you cast her off goe into the wind so far that the fowle may not discrie you And when she is cast off and beginneth to recouer her gate make you then towards the brooke where the fowle lie alwayes wysing making your hawke to leane in vpon you And when you perceyue that she is at a reasonable pitch then her head being in lay out the fowle and land it if you can and if you cannot take downe your hawke and let her kill some train as thus Take with you a ducke and slip one of her wing feathers and hauing thrust it through her nares throw it out vnto your hawk cast it as hie as you can right vnderneath your hawke that she may the better know your hand and you And remēber that you neuer flee a young hawke without some quicke thing carried into the field with you that if shee faile at first to kill the wild fowle you may yet make her kill that traine which you bring with you And this you shall do for a certaine time vntill your hawke be wel entred and quarried and that she know a quarrior sufficiently Some other Falcons there be of a contrarie nature which will require great skill to finde their properties And the same being known you may kéepe them high or poore according to their conditions So shall you doe more good with them than if you haue no respect to the diuersity of their nature for then you should commit great errors and seldome make good hawkes You may train hawkes in this wise First you shall feede your Hawke well vpon a fowle of the same kind that you would traine her withall or haue her flée to And you shall do so vntill you haue acquainted your Hawke with that kind of fowle the which you may doe in this sort Take that fowle that you will make the traine of and set it on foote with meat tyed vpon the backe of it and goe so neare it that the Hawke may sée it and when shée séeth it let her seaze therevpon and foote the fowle and kill it Or you may thus doe better Take a Cryance and tye the fowle which hath the meate tyed on her backe by the beake and cause one to stand close which may hold the same Cryance Then vnhood your Hawke and stand a far off and let him draw the fowle and stirre it with his Cryance vntill your Hawke may sée it stirre And if shée foote it then may you afterwards make her this other kind of traine Take a quicke fowle which can flée and when you haue halfe séeled it and cast it out let your Hawke flée to it and if she kill it reward and féede her vp well vpon it ∵ To keepe and make Sarowhawkes IF you would know how to féede and man Sparowhawkes that be taken tender penned out of theyr eyrie it is méet y e you kéepe them in a fresh and swéet place and giue them as much as they will eate of small birdes as Sparrowes Martlets and such like And also you may giue them other flesh but sée that it be swéet cleane good shred into small pellets vpon a cleane trencher When they begin to waxe fullsomed giue them Sparowes and other small birds whole that they may learne to plume foote and tyre and set them a bason of cleane water in a heape of sand that they may bath therein proine and picke their feathers They that be thus dealt withall doe not know how to prey therefore you must enter thē bytrains in this maner Take a yong chicken which is of color plume like a Feasant or Partrich cast it out before your sparhawk But if she flée not vnto it nor do foot it then strip the skin vpō the head of the chicken vntill it bléed she will lightly seaze it thinking that it is flesh to féed vpon Thē féed her vpon it well and thus you shall vse her vntill she will seaze a chicken of her selfe When she will take a chicken of her selfe goe into some fayre close or meadow where nothing may bee to interrupt you and take a yong chicken and throwe it vp vnto your hawke vntill she flée to it and foot it then féed her vp therevppon and coye her as much as you can deuise For Nyasse Sparowhawkes are much more daungerous and coy than others be When your Sparowhawke will foot a chicken well as before sayd then you may traine her thus Cause some of your seruants or others to stand close in some ditch or other priuy corner with a liue chicken in his hand and stand your selfe with your Sparowhawke vpon your fist a little distance from him then cry and speake as you would speake and cry to your spaniels when they range the field And when you thinke that your sparowhawk looketh that way as he y t hath the train standeth let him cast vp the chicken as high as he can and let your Sparhawke flée thereat and seaze it That done reward her and féed her therevpon making much of her chéering her euermore among Thus shall you do twice a day When you haue thus trained her moūt on your horseback giue her like trains in the field as before said Then set her sharpe against an euening and go out to séeke some game if you find séeke to make her one flight at aduantage and let her flée but once and sup her vp vpon the prey Thus in foure or fiue dayes at y e beginning I would haue
but seldome to kill and not to stoope beyond twice or thrice at the most and euen when shée is at the highest let him take her down with the lure where when shée hath plumed and broken the fowle a little let him féed her vp and by that means hée shall maintaine his Falcon high fléeing and inward and very fond of the lure Here I will not deny but that if shée kill euery day although shée stoope from a very high gate yet if shée be not rebuked or hurt therewith she will doubtlesse become euery day higher fléeing than other mary therewithall shée will so much forget the lure as the more you shew it her the more she will bend from it and flée out on head from her Kéeper and oftentimes wil teach you hot poasting iourneys Wherefore aboue all thinges the high fléeing hawke should be made inwards and as we tearme it fond of the lure because it is no lesse prayse worthy in a high fléeing Falcon to make in and turne head at the second or third tosse of the lure and when shée powreth downe like a stone vpon it than if she had killed nay rather such are more estéemed than the other And so is the Falconer more prayse worthy which doth winne his Hawke thereunto For to come vnto the lure is a thing taught by art and industry but to kill a fowle is the naturall property of a Hawke To make a high fleeing hawke vpwards IT hapneth oftentimes that a Hawke although shee bée naturally high fléeing will yet belong before she be made vpwards but will fish and play the slugge for when she shoulde get vp to couer the fowle shee will stoope before the fowle bee put out the which may procéede through two causes First it may bee that shée is too sharpe sette and the second cause may be that shee is flowen withall out of time eyther too soone or too late So that when you see a Falcon vse those euill tatches without apparant cause you shall do well to cast her out a dead fowl or a dead pullet for a dead quarrey as Falconers tearme it and to hoode her vp without any reward to the end she may take no encouragement to vse those vile trickes for there is no greater spoyle to an high fléeing Hawke than when shée killeth a fowle from a base and low pitch and so much the greater is the losse of her by how much the more shee doth vse those vile buzardly parts Therefore by my best experience I prayse that order to throw her out a dead quarrey and hood her vp then afterwards within halfe an howre call her to the lure and féede her and doe this as often as shee vseth to fish or to play the base flugge on that fashion and to find whether it procéed of beeing too sharpe set or of fléeing out of time the Falconer shall doe well with all diligence to note the naturall disposition of his Hawkes as which will flée beeing hie and in good plight and which best when she is kept low which will flee best when shee is set most sharpe and eager and which contrary and which in a meane betweene both which earely at Sunne rising and which when the Sunne is two howres high or more which sooner and which later in an euening For the natures of Falcons are very diuers and sondrie in such sort as to flee with a hawke at her best howre and time and to flee with her out of that time is a thing which will shew as great difference as between an excellent good Hawke and a Kite Therefore let the Falconer haue especiall regard thereunto setting his Hawkes to flee according to their natures and dispositions and keeping them alwayes in good order And heere it is to be noted that al hawkes aswell soarhawks as mewed hawkes and haggartes should be fet out in the euening two or three houres some more and some lesse hauing conuenient regard to their nature as it is stronger or weaker and in the morning also accordingly as they cast hooding them first then setting them abroad a weathering vntill you get vp on Horsebacke to goe to field and so your hawkes will alwayes be wel weathered and in good order These be the best meanes and obseruations which I can set downe for Riuer Hawkes which if it succeede well to you then shall you stand assured of your sport and I of my desire To make a Falcon to the Hearon NOw to teach you to make a flight at the hearon although it be the most noblest and stately flight that is and pleasant to behold yet there is no such art or industry therein as in the other flights For the Hawke fléeth the Hearon moued by nature as against her proper foe but to the riuer shée fléeth as taught by the industry diligence of the Falconer Then must it néedes follow that such Falconers as haue flowen at the riuer when the end of the moneth of February or the beginning of March is come a time when Hearons beginne to make their passage if you will make those Falcons to that flight you must cease fléeing at the riuer with them any longer but you must pull them downe and make them light the which you shall doe by féeding them with no wilde meats but the hearts and flesh of Lambs Calues and chickens and calling of them to the lure with other make Falcons that is to say a cast at once to the end they may accustome and acquaint themselues one with another and so may the better flée the Hearon by helping one another and by succouring each other Herein you must take good héed so to acquaint them that they crabbe not together for so would they doe when they come to the flight whereby they might be in perill to bee spoyled or killed When your Falcons be skowred and cleane so as béeing sharpe set they may be called hungry hawkes or as Falconers tearm them eager hawkes you must get a liue Hearon vpon the vpper part of whose bill or truncke you must conuey the ioynt of a réede or Cane so as shee may not hurt the hawke therewith that being done tie the Hearon in a Criance then setting her vpon the ground vnhood your hawke to the end that when she espieth the Hearon she may flée her and if she doe so make in apace to succour her let her plume take blood of it allowing her the braines the marrow of the bones with the heart all together the Italians call it Soppa Hauing thus laid it vpon your Hawking gloue giue it your Hawke and afterwards rippe the breast of the Hearne let your Hawke feed thereon vntill she bée well gorged This béeing done hoode her vp vpon the Hearon suffering her plume thereon with all the fauour that may be then take her vpon your fist and let her tyre a little vpon the foote or pynion of the wing But if a Falconer haue not store of Hearons to
must be gently borne on the fist Besides when the feauer hath left her for that time you should let her flée a little it will doe her great good Looke that her meat wherwith you féeâ—er be hote flesh as Sparrowes which in this cold feuer are very well to be allowed though in the hoat ague I told you they were hurtful pullets pigeons such like hote fowles the flesh of whome you must wash in wine wherein haue béen boyled these hote things following as Sage Mints Pelamountaine Cloues Cynamon such other swéet comfortable deuises Besides you may giue your hawke the foresaid flesh if it please you with hony and a little powder of Oil Fenell Commin medled together But spetially you must obserue this rule and remember it wel not to giue your hawk gorge vpon gorge and again if your hawke bee high in flesh when this disease taketh her shée must bée fed with little and seldome although in déede it be very good at all times howsoeuer shée bée affected to keepe a reasonable hand vpon her as touching her dyet whether thée bee diseased or in perfect state For of ouer great gorges and too full and liberall a hand doe procéed a thousand mischiefes and diseases to a Hawke as experience doth dayly instruct vs both to the great paines of those silly birdes and the great griefe and cost of the vnskilful Kéeper whose purpose and meaning perhaps is by giuing his hawke liberally to haue her flée lustily and to continue in perfect health and state whereas in troth nothing doth so much offend a hawke as too great a gorge As in all other things so in this likewise The meane is best Some Falconers do prescribe this methode for cure of the feuerin a hawke which I doe not greatly commend or allow They will you to take Reubarbe Muske Sugar Candie the iuyce of Motherwoort and making a pill of those thinges aforesaid to giue it your Hawke feeding her afterwardes with Sparrowes or young Rattes which are very hotte meate Othersome appoint a paste or mixture to be made as bigge as a nut of these things following which being stéeped a space in Vineger must be giuen her not dealing with her in sixe howres after at the least They take to the composition of this paste Aloes Muske and the sat of a hen equall portions giuing it the hawke in manner aforesaid The Signes that they giue to know the feuer are the wrything of the hawkes traine the coldnes of her foot and oftentimes the casting of her gorge But the first rules and remedies do satisfie me sufficientlie without these because I find in them some more reason yet doe not thinke it amisse to set downe diuers mens opinions because euery man may make his choice for what likethone perhappes contents not another Of diseases of the head and first of the Apoplexie or falling evill HAuing in purpose to treate of the diseases wherewith hawkes those silly birdes are vexed in their heades I must do you to know that vnder the name and tearme of the head I doe not onely comprise that part that containeth the braine but also the eares eyes beake or chap nares mouth of the hawke al which parts are subiect to sundry diseases and euils But first of all I meane to speake of the chiefest and most principall part of all the rest of such maladies as light vpon the braine and after that of such as happen to the externall and outward parts of the hawkes head Among all which infirmities and griefs I account the Apoplexie whom the Italians call Gozza the greatest and most perillous as the which doth ordinarily cause and bring sodaine death This mischiefe doth commonly befall hawkes by meane of too much grease and store of blood for that at that time ther doth happily breake some one vaine or other in the braine which doth fill some concauity or hollow cell of the braine w t blood in which Cels as the learned do imagine and affirme the animal spirites are engendered and haue their beginning Without which animall spirits no liuing creature can eyther haue sense or mouing Whereupon it doth follow of very necessity and by a méere consequent that the passage of those spirites being shut vp and intercluded the creature whatsoeuer it be must die Againe it may happen for that the Hawke hath béene sette too long in the heat of the Sunne for by that occasion there may bee so much humidity and moist humor drawne vp into the braine as may engender this euill and procure this mischiefe in the hawke Moreouer it may chance by making a long flight at a Feasant or Partridge in the heat of the day by meane of which the hawke hath surcharged her selfe with ouermuch trauaile Wherefore it shall bee behouefull and necessary so to vse the matter with care and diligence as it may be foreséene that hawkes incurre not this aduenture and euill Whereuppon for that hawkes in the mew are accustomed to gather much grease it shall bée good for the space of fifteene or twenty daies before the drawing of them out of the mew to feed them with lyquide and slipper flesh such as may lightly bee put ouer and passe through them As namely with the hearts of Calues Lambes or Goates washed in luke warme water and afterwards dried in a linnen cloth before you giue it your Hawke Likewise may you boldly féede your hawkes before they are drawne out of the mewe with small Pullets and young Sparowes When you haue thus done and obserued this order of féeding them when the time is come to drawe them out of the mewe you must remember to draw them verie orderly and after that to continue the same kind of féeding and to kéepe the same hand vpon them for other twenty daies space at the least to scowre and disburden your Hawkes of that slime and glitte which doth surcharge them hauing them alwayes for the most part on the fist and especially at night Neyther shall it bée euill to scowre them or as our Ostregers and Falconers do terme it to enseame them by giuing them a quantity of washt Aloes allowing a Falcon as much as the biggenesse of a Beane beaten in the powder wrapped in Cotton so to make her a scowring thereof and besides to giue her Sugar Candie two or thrée mornings But in any condition you must beware not to vse Aloes vnwasht because thereof are bred sundry ill accidents in hawkes And for that occasion is it prescribed you to vse Aloes washt to auoide that vndoubted euill which would otherwise happen Moreouer I haue happily and with good successe approued this remedy I haue giuen so much larde or butter as I could well conuey into my hawkes throat when shée hath béene emptie aboue hauing first prepared the lard or butter by washing it seuen eight or more times in clear water and afterwardes letting it soake in Rose-water a space and lastly by putting vnto it
still or steady but is euer mouing it to one side or other holding her eyes close shut withall This disease is called Soda which in english we may tearm the Megrim or a kind of palsie by mean the head is in continuall mouing This euill may procéed eyther by the fowlenesse of the panell or of a corrupt and naughty liuer The remedie for it is this which I haue found very good and wherewith I haue cured my hawke in times past You must giu your sick hawk a casting of cotton in which you shall enwrappe of Aloes Epaticke one scruple of Cloues two graines making these into powder before you giue it then two howres after the taking of this scowring féed your hawke with a yong Pygeon or a hote Pullets legge vsing this selfe same order thrée or foure mornings one after another One other remedy for it is this Take as much vnwasht Larde as the toppe of your little finger with a quantitie of Pepper and a little Aloes Epaticke beate these two last into powder and conuey them into the Larde which done thrust them into your hawkes throat holding her on your fist a space after it then tie her on the pearch in the Sunne there let her stay till shée cast both the scowring the slimy matter which is in her gorge And this medicine you may vse euery rhird day once féeding your hawke with hote meats as Pigeons and yong Sparowes and euerytime you giue her this scowring conuey into her a little Aloes which is an excellent thing to scowre her and quit her of of this disease If these receits and scowrings yéeld no remedy then must you to the actuall cauterie shearing away the plumes about that part of the head where you will apply your fire euer respecting the bone and burning nothing but the very skinne to let the mischiefe breath remouing the escarre and doing the cure after the escarre remoued as is before said Let this suffice for this monstrous mischiefe which kils many hawkes yet haue I cured my hawks twice by these remedies in my time Of the Cataract in the eyes of a Hawke BEsides those other euils there is a Cataract which dooth light vpon the eyes of a Hawke whome we may tearm a suffusion a mischiefe not easily remoued and diuers times impossible to be recured as namely when it is grown too thick and ouerlong hath béen suffered in the eye without séeking remedy for it but if it be not confirmed then may it well bee remedied and I my selfe haue cured sundry hawkes affected with this euill This euill accident doth happen by meane of grosse humors in the head which are wont to dimme and darken the sight and sometimes cleane to put out the hawkes eye without redemption It may bee that the hoode is the cause and ground of this disease for I neuer in my life remember that I saw any other birde or fowle troubled with it but onely the Falcon and perhappes it lights on her in chiefe for that of all other shée is most vsed to the hoode and to be almost at no time vnhooded You must therefore haue an eye and especiall regard to this inconuenience at the first by giuing one or two morninges a scowring of Aloes or of Agaricke to scowre your Hawke withall because if you should aduenture vpon any sharpe or hard painefull medicine applying it to the eye of your hawke it would perhaps cause a great repaire of euil humors and accidents to the place diseasaid When you haue giuen this scowring of Aloes or Agaricke to remoue the matter from the eye you must vse a powder made of washt Aloes finely beaten one scruple and of Sugar Candie two scruples blowing out this powder into your Hawkes eyes thrée or foure times in a day with the Pipe or quill aforesaid This is the gentlest and most Soueraine medicine that you can apply to the eye in this case and whilest you do minister this receit it shall bee good sometimes to bath the eye with the vrine of a little boy If by these medicines aforesaid the webbe of the eye will not bee remoued we must be driuen to vse a stronger receipt which is this Take a new said egge and rost it so long vntill the white of it become like milke When you haue so done put it into a fine white linnen cloth and straine it so much and so long vntill you sée issue through your strainer a cleare gréene water whereof you shall now and then infuse a droppe or two into the hurt eye vsing it so thrée or foure times in the day at the least vntll you sée your Hawke amend of her mischiefe and waxe sound Last of all if these thinges auayle not to the cure I do commend and allow aboue all the rest that you take the iuyce of Celendine rootes making them cleane from the earth that doth vse to hang to the moores then scrape away the outmost rynde and pill of the roote and vse the iuyce to your Hawke Truely I haue found this to bee of singular force and vertue in the like accident It shall not bée amisse in this and such like affections and ill passions of the eye of a Hawke to bath her eyes often with rose-water wherein haue béen boyled the séeds of Fenygreke But you must remember that this water or coliâ—ie be somewhat warme when you vse it because the eye is so noble and so sensible a member as it can ill brooke thinges eyther ouerhote or ouer cold but must haue them moderately hot or cold This deuise may you vse to bath your Hawkes eye withall vntill such time she be recouered féeding her mean while with good meats and such as are light of disgestion Hawkes are of so noble and excellent a nature as the most part of medicines that you doe apply to the hurtes and cures of men you may boldly bestow on hawkes as thinges verie holesome for them as by their working will be most euidently séene and perceyued yet must there bee a discretion vsed in the administration of these said receites hauing alwayes a regard vnto the weake and delicate nature of Hawkes in respect of men and therefore the quantities of euery thing must be allowed and giuen accordingly For when all the medicines recited shal faile to worke if then you take but a leafe of ground Iuie and champing it in your mouth spit the iuyce thereof into the hawkes eye it will not onely take away this euill but any other griefe in the eye whatsoeuer It hapneth diuers times that through the catarre and paine of the head and eyes there lights vpon the eares of a Hawke so mortall and deadly an apostume as seldom when though there be great care vsed about the cure shée may bée brought to perfect state or recouered And this procéedeth because the mischiefe lies so neare a neighbour to the braine as before it can breake or be cleansed outwardly it
of it as she lifteth but let her not eate past one of the legs at that time Afterward set her down on some hie thing with water by her and beware of giuing her any great gorge Then for foure or fiue dayes together giue her fiue or sixe cloues of maces lapped vp in a hens skin and that will recouer her Of the disease that is called the privie and hidden evill in a Hawke for which we haue no speciall tearme SOmetimes hawkes perish for want of knowledge of some secret disease that hapneth to them and therfore I will tell you how you shall know it The hawk that hath that disease is alwayes gréedy to féed insomuch that when yée haue giuen her a great gorge in the morning she will haue indewed it out of hand and if ye giue her another at noone she will put it ouer by by and if yée giue her the third at night she will dispatch that quickly also and the more shée féedeth the more gréedy nippie she is This disease commeth of this that when your Hawke is very poore low in state and you desirous to set her vppe quickly thinking to bring her in good plight with great gorges you féed her with Pigeons and other flesh which shée cannot indew by reason of her pouerty weaknes for want of heat in the liuer the heat whereof is the cause of all kindly digestion indewing Also you may know this disease by hir often muting which is watrish thin and besides she doth slise further thā she is wont to doe by reason of spéedy induing her meat M. Mallopin in his booke of the Prince sayth that for remedy of this disease ye must stéepe a shéepes heart cutte in small péeces all one night in Asses milke or Goats milke and the next day giue your hawk a quarter of it in y e morning for her beaching as much at noon the rest at night forcing her to receiue as much of the milke as ye can and continue it fiue or six daies together til ye sée her mute kindly Then féed her reasonably with good meat stéeped in oyle of swéet Almonds continuing it for thrée or foure dayes space twice a day And as ye find your hawke to mend so increase her meals by litle and litle till shee be in as good plight as she was before alwayes continuing the said Milke for some are of opinion that milke is good for all diseases of a Hawke Master Amè Cassian saith that to remedy this disease yée must take a tortois of the land and not a water Tortois and stéepe the flesh of it in womans milke Asses milke or Goats milke and giue your Hawke a quantity of it for a beaching thrée or foure times and a little more at her féeding times sixe or seuen dayes together Afterward féede her with shéepes hearts stéeped in womans milke by little and little at once till shée bée recouered and let her not stand in a dampish or moist place but in warme places in the winter and in coole places in Summer and alwayes hooded Of the disease and weakenesse in there ynes WHen your Hawk cannot iump the length of her lines and cryance to your fist or from your fist vp to the perch nor bate with her wings Ye may well thinke that shée hath the disease of the reines Therfore M. Cassian willeth you to chop a hares skin haire and all in very small and fine peeces and to mingle it with cats flesh and to féede your hawke with it seuen or eight dayes together and if shée indew it shée shall recouer of her disease Of Hawkes that haue the ague or Fever TO know whether your hawke haue the Ague Marke whether her féet bée more swollen than they were wont to bée or no if they be then hath she the ague To remedy this mischiefe Michelin sayeth you must mingle Arsenicke and Capons greace together well sprinckled with Vineger wherof you must make a little ball which you must cause your Hawke to take by casting her and vse it in such wise as shee may kéepe it and it will rid the Ague Of the Hawke that voydeth wormes IF a Hawke voyde worms by master Martins aduise yée must make this medicine following Take of the fine fylings of yron and strew it vpon your hawkes meat which if you doe well must be Porke and féed her so thrée or foure dayes with that kind of flesh so seasoned and it will cure her Of the Teynt in a hawkes feather and how many kinds of it there be HItherto yée haue read of the inward diseases of hawks Now I will tell you of the outward accidents and first will speake of the Teynt which the French Falconers call Taigne the Italians Zignuole and Tarmae whereof there are thrée sorts The first is when their principals or long Feathers begin to droppe off by meanes whereof many hawkes are marred and cast away without knowledge how to helpe it Master Amè Cassian sayeth that this commeth sometimes of the Liuer and of the excessiue heate of the body by meanes whereof small pimples rise vpon their winges or on their traines which afterward cause their Feathers to droppe-off and when they are gone the holes where they stood doe close againe where through the hawke doth perish if she bée not remedied This disease is contagious and one of them will take it of another and therefore yée must not let the Hawke that is affected with it stand neare a Hawke that is sound neyther must you touch or féed a sound Hawke on the Gloue whereon a sicke Hawke hath béene fédde And yée shall know that she hath that disease by her often picking with her beake vpon her principall feathers of her winges and traine and by their dropping away Therefore cast your Hawke and let her be well perused and yée shall finde the saide disease For remedy wherof Master Martin and M. Cassian say you must cast your Hawke and when you haue found the smal pimple whence the feather dropt first you must get a little sticke of Firre which is by nature gummy and fatte make a little pegge of it not sharpe at the forend nor thrust it in with violence but softly as you may And if ye can get none of that wood then take a graine of Barley and cutte off the forepoint of it and annoint it with a little Triacle or Oyle oliue and conuey it into the hole so as it may sticke a little out and the hole not close together and stoppe againe Then with a small Launce or Penknife you must slitte the pimple and let out the redde water which you shall find there After this take Aloes Cicotrine in powder and put it into the gall of an oxe coyled in a dish and with those two mingled together annoint the slit round about and beware that there come nothing in the hole where the feather grew for it might doe the hawke great harme This done take