for that purpose and easiest to be indued and alwaies may bee prouided warme for her to feede vpon Then you must prouide some of the distilled water of the hearbe called Mint-ryall and as often as you feed giue some of it with her meate vntill you see and perceiue she doth mend which soone will be if you obserue well this order and manner of diet for otherwise that being neglected and carelesly handled all the medicines or other appliments in the world will doe no good at all Contrariwise this water is special good for this purpose and with good ordering will strengthen the weakenes of the stomacke drie vp all superfluous humours that was cause of the same and at an instant will stay the casting of the gorge and make her keepe her meate CHAP. XXI A verie good Medicine for a Hawk that is stuffed in the head with colde TAke Rosemary leaues and drie them and make them into fine powder also take the powder of halfe a scoare cloaues and mingle them well together with clarified and preserued butter out of Rose-water and browne suger-candie and giue it vnto your Hawke in pellets in the morning and bee sure to keepe her very warme vntill she be well which will quickly be for this is a very speedy and sure medicine As I haue heretofore shewed you how necessary it is that euery Falconer do know what aileth his Hawk wheÌ„ she is amisse certainly what is her disease so likewise ought he to be as skilful to know the vertue operation of such things as he shall giue vnto her for curing of the same For otherwise he may trauel as a blind man without a guide and runne on quite contrarie doing hurt vnto that the which he intended to doe good vnto as for example I haue heard of some men that would giue worme-wood in a pellet or knot vnto his Hawke at a night with her supper but for what purpose I haue not certainly vnderstood neither will I giue any consent or aduice so to do as to giue it at that time with meate or any other time on a full gorge for the nature of it is cleane repugnant and contrary it is a thing in taste very bitter and full of iuice and it cannot chuse but be offensiue and distastefull vnto the Hawke in the time of her digestion and may cause a crasie Hawke to cast before her due time and euen to throw vp her meate and all as most certainly I haue seene it done Therefore as it is a thing very medicinable and powerfull for those things for which by nature it serueth being rightly giuen so also it is as vnmedicinable and hurtfull if it be otherwise vsed wherefore vnderstand you thus much of the vertue and operation of the same this weede here spoken of and called by the name of worme-wood it is of force to loosen scowre and purge grosse and abounding humours from the stomack and is meetest to bee giuen with stones when your Hawke hath cast in the morning and is through empty and especially after a great gorge that she hath stood long on and that you feare surfering on the same for it doth mightily refresh the stomacke and body after large feeding it killeth wormes in the same and resisteth rottennesse and this obseruation ought to be held in any thing that is giuen vnto those poore Birds the griefe should be certainely knowne in all things accordingly for remedie thereof You may perceiue this disease oft-times by croking or hatling in the gorge or throate To wash your Hawks meate in hearhowâ—d or woodbine water is also very good CHAP. XXII A very good water to giue vnto anie Hawke that is perceiued to bee subiect vnto drought and heate in the stomacke or else where inwardly TAke about an ounce and a halfe or two ounces of french barley and wash it well in faire water and put it into a pipkin or posnet with some reasonable store of faire water and let that boyle three or fowre waâ—mes and no more then cleanse away that water and put to it as much more and let that boile euen so long also then throwe that away then the third time put to it at the least a quart of faire water and let that boile halfe an hower or vntill it come vnto a pint then straine that through a linnen cloath from the barley and put into it as much suger candie as will make it indifferent sweete and let them boile a little together then after when it is colde as often as you do feed your Hawke giue some of it with your meate vnto her for three or fowre daies together and no more for it wil not last and therefore then you must prouide you of new after this manner so long as you shall haue cause to vse it which will not be long for certainely I haue seene it with one making and vsing to coole and recouer a very hot and drie Hawke that would not by any meanes be filled full of flesh or thriue in a long time before CHAP. XXIII Of the frowne AS concerning the frownce or heate or both so termed that is thought to proceed from forth the bodie of the Hawke but cannot be directly knowne vntill triall be made by the Faulconer in the cure therof when as if he do then duly obserue he may with iudgement finde out the originall cause and place from whence it doth proceed and so to vse a certaine meanes for remedie thereof As for example when you doe find your Hawkes mouth and throat to be continually froathy and furred with white then you may thinke and mistrust the same to proceed out of the inner parts and therefore must needs be said out of the body neuerthelesse as there is seuerall places that thorough distemperature therein may seeme vpward such and the like annoiance so also you must out of your iudgement and skill vse sundrie meanes for remedy as occasion shall serue And first for the stomacke which is the pannell and is neerest vnto you easiest to be searched to begin withall it is therefore most meetest and for triall of that place and to be thoroughly resolued whether that infirmity of heat shewing and appearing in the mouth doe grow from thence or no vse no other thing but stones out of faire water morning or euening as you shall find your Hawke orderly to cast them as if shee vse to sit long in the morning before shee doe cast then leaue of that time and prouide for the night to let her alwaies haue them and assure your selfe that in good time they will purge and cleanse that place of all superfluous heat or other humors that were gathered in the same and the fume and annoiance thereof will be gone the which will shew and be manifested in the mouth and throat for they will be clearely clensed of the same but if you doe not find this order and meanes to be answearable to your expectation very suddenly
would haue kept and loued as that which was contrary to her kind and therefore hated which course is very vnfitting to be held with such a Hawke as you doe finde disposed to keepe her stones very long for it will take no effect with her but onely for the present time Therefore if you will needes vse it it were fitter to be giuen to such a Hawke as doth cast orderly thereby sometimes to purge her selfe of superfluous glut on the sodaine which you suspected or may finde her stomacke to be cloied withall through your owne or others neglect or forbearance to giue stones But for the other slow casting Hawke she will not be cured on the sodaine but it must be wrought with practice and by degrees Therfore when you shall haue such a Hawke and that you shall notwithstanding the councell which I haue giuen to the contrarie resolue to deale with her from her recouerie in the morning it is your best course not to giue her many stones at one time neither let them be of the biggest but about eight or nine of the smallest that Falconers doe vse to giue their Hawkes and then if she do cast anie of them within two howres let her fast no longer but feed her on the rest Also if she cast none of them by that time yet giue her her dinner and also her supper at night yet I haue seene a Hawke that hath cast them between her dinner and her supper but howsoeuer two to one she will cast either all or the most part of them the next morning and therfore let her not fast long before you feed her at any time And by folowing this course you shall finde that in the end it will recouer her and bring her to cast in due time And thus much haue I written for their sakes that think the night too long and are wilfully humored to giue stones in the morning to such Hawkes Neuerthelesse for those that are not so much selfe-will'd or setled in their owne conceits let me withdraw them from the day and perswade them that the night is best to deale with such a Hawke and it offers me occasion of disquiet or distemper vnto her as the morning doth but quietnes and rest and therein shee hath the length of time to receiue the true operation and vertue of the stones Diuerse other reasons I could shewe and alleadge but they are needlesse because in the forepart of this book I haue written more at large vpon the same occasion CHAP. V. Aduertisement touching scowring and purgation EVery Falconer ought to bee most careful to take speciall note of the estate of that hawke the which hee doth determine and dispose himselfe to giue a scowring vnto and also that he do compose and make the same according vnto her necessity the strength and ablenes of her body and thereafter to bestowe it on her also it is as requisite that he do rightly vnderstand at what time it is best and fittest to be giuen For so far as I haue euer perceiued it hath been the opinion of most men and thought the best course vpon any occasion or vnto anie Hawke of what estate soeuer to purge and scowre her in the morning which order sometimes and in some hawks may be amended as it cannot bee chosen but those Hawkes that are brought and come from the cage or other places whereas they haue been fedde continually with base and vilde meate must needes haue all sorts of imperfections abounding in them Wherefore then for such Hawkes it will not be amisse if the Faulconer will not stay the time and benefit thereof by his best indeuour and practice with good meate cleane drest faire water casting and stones to purge and cleanse her with all then to giue her a thorough scowring and such a one as I shall appoint and set downe hereafter and at what time and in that manner as I shall declare and shewe you CHAP. VI. To prepare your strong Hawke and make her fit to be purged IT is meete you labour your strong and full Hawke with carriage with cleane feede with stones and casting at the least viij daies to stir her body and make it fit to be scoured then you must feed the same Hawke in the morning and in that manner that shee may be thorough emptie by eight of the clocke at night Also you must be sure that you giue neither bones nor feathers nor any other thing but onely good and cleane meat then before you goe to bed giue her the scowring and set her vp very warme all night for otherwise shee may take great cold by meanes of her emptines and purging medicine Then must you haue a water readily prouided and made in this sort Take a pint of faire running water put into a glasse whereunto you must put halfe a dozen brused cloues as many thin slices of licorish and a little browne sugger candy then must you rise betimes in the morning and with a spoonefull or two of this water giue her stones altogether and when shee hath cast them againe giue her her breakefast of good meat with reason in the quantity for she wil be perfectly freed from the scowring and will be ready for the same For betwixt the stones and the sweet and comfortable water shee will be purged vpward and downeward from al annoiance of the vnnaturall vnsauory medicine and her meat will agree so much the better with her This water is sufficient of it selfe without any other medicine being giuen with meat to nourish and procure health in any poore Hawke that hath not her deadly wound And so much of the ordering and scowring any Hawke that is strong and able of body to abide and indure the same CHAP. VII How to order your Hawke that shall be found to be weake and vnable to abide or indure any hard or violent dealing by medicine or scowring IT is strange that any Faulconer should haue in his hand a Hawke full of flesh any continuance of time and that then shee should be found to be both bare of her flesh weak and also fowle within it cannot be vnlesse in such a Hawke wherein no hope of life is to be expected but is plainely perceiued to be vnsound and rotten Therefore it must needs appeare that such Hawkes hath beene euelâ—y ordered and continued in vncleane and vnskilfull keeping wherefore perceiuing their pouerty to pinch them it behoues you to deale more gently with them then with the other and to prepare a gentle and easie scowring according to their poore estate and such a one as I shal shew you hereafter And appoint to be giuen vnto such a Hawke on the like occasion And whereas you disposed your selfe formerly and prepared for the night so contrariwise you must doe for the morning because your sickely Hawke will not be able to brooke and endure a cold winters night to sit empty in but it will hazzard her life therefore you must feed her
then you may be sure there is a further and a more dangerous ground and cause of the same infirmitie which you ought more carefully to looke vnto and prouide for it another remedy you may be assured it is the liuer that is diseased and as it is seldome or neuer mistrusted so also it is a thing as little or no whit at all euer feared but certainely in this case that must needs be the part that is amisse for there are no other places but those two which prouoke that noisome and fuming heat to ascend in that manner vp into the gorge the throat and mouth And for the stomacke I haue here set downe a present and sure meanes with stones and a well ordered diet how to coole and destroy it in that place then of necessity it must needs depend of the liuer and the corruption thereof which is the cause that stones take no effect in the stomacke and for the liuer to amend and stay the inflamation and superfluous heate thereof you must prouide some of the distilled water of sorrell and whensoeuer you doe giue your Hawke stones giue them out of that water and some of it with them also giue it with the meat you feed withall the which you must haue respect vnto and that it may be easie in disgestion and neuer on great gorge vntill shee be cured but easie gorges and the oftener Also if you be disposed you may put into the same water a little slice of rubarbe to infuse for it is a very speciall thing to preserue the liuer and these things with this order well obserued will both coole the liuer and the stomacke and free your Hawke cleane from this disease And so much of this griefe or infirmitie that some men doe call heat in the stomacke others call it heat in the bodie or frownce or the wet frownce CHAP. XXIIII A medicine to kill and destroy the frownce that doth cleane or eate into any part of the mouth tongue or throate where you may come to dresse it TAke a sawcerfull of the best white wine vineger that you can get or may be gotten or more or lesse as you shall thinke good for the quantitie you meane to make and into the same put three or fowre red sage leaues and boile them a prettied pace then take the powder of burnt allum a pretty quantitie and put into it and let it boile euen one walme or two and no more then take it off and put it into a glasse and there keepe it also if you do find the Frownce to be very dangerous take as much brimstone as two small nuts beaten very small and put that into a linnen cloath and tie it fast then let the same be steeped in the rest a day and a night which done take it forth and crush it or streine as much of the iuice as you can into the vineger and throw the other away and this will destroy anie frowne in the world if the Hawke be orderly drest For otherwise the best medicine that euer was is but of little worth Therefore you must vnderstand in what sort you ought to dresse her to the end to preuent the tediousnes of the same and the heating and turmoiling of the poore Hawke which amongst many men haue no end but with the losse of her life on this consideration you must remember in the cure of any such or other thing inward-inwardlie or outwardly wherein consisteth and dependeth the distemper of the whole body and hazzard of life that as the one day you doe apply your salue or other medicine to correct the raging humor or infection of the infirmity so must you the other day giue rest nourishment and good vsage withall to comfort preserue and hold strong the heart and body for otherwise your art is nothing worth and your labour is all in vaine Therefore if the frownce be neuer so rancke or neuer so little at the first dressing take of the scale to the quicke and with the tip of a feather lay on two or three drops of the water being warmed in a spoone and so the next day and after but once in three daies and so vse it being sure that you do neuer pull of anie scale or scal to make it bleed if you can choose but onelie that which will come gentlie away for if you doe it will not heale doe what you can but scab and eat in further and further the mouth is too tender and manie Hawkes are destroied that way with often dressing rubbing fretting a thing so tender as a Hawkes mouth is but otherwise with this water and this order rightly obserued there is no frownce howsoeuer it groweth or is entered but it will suddainely cure and destroy it without all doubt CHAP. XXV Of the Pantas THe Pantas is a disease that in all my life I haue not had one Hawke infected withall neither did I euer heare or know of any other mans that had it that euer could be cured of it and therefore if I should prescribe you any fained or new deuised medicine for it I should both doe my selfe wrong and deceiue many others in so doing therefore it is best for euery man to feare it and euer to be careful to preuent and preserue his Hawke by good vsage from it The griefe is very easie at the first to be decerned for after a little bating shee will begin to fetch her breath thicke with panting after as it more increaseth shee will shew it by labouring in her pannell euen as shee doth sit still Also as it further groweth her lights doe drie or wast shee will be forced to gape for breath after shee hath a little stirred and then there is no remedy for it but if at the first beginning thorough the diligence and skill of her keeper it may be discried there is no doubt but it may be preuented and her life preserued The which to effect take a quarter of a pound of the best sweet butter and put it into dammaske rose water and there preserue and keepe it very close and as you haue need to vse it which must be very often take some of it forth and with the powder of rue and the powder of saffron and a little browne suger candie mingled well together make a pellet or two and giue euery morning vnto your Hawke for a weeke together very earely in the morning and keepe her verie warme continuallie and if it haue not taken too deepe root this will cure and helpe iâ— For these things are speciall preseruatiues and remedies against the stopping drying or wasting of the longs other places from whence this disease or infirmity doe proceed you must keep your butter by itselfe continually in rose water and your powder in a paper vntill you haue need and then mix them and vse them CHAP. XXVI Of the Crocke and the Crampe THe Crocke and the Crampe are two very dangerous euâ—ls and in the nature and