The booke of faulconrie or hauking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen: collected out of the best aucthors, asvvell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concernyng faulconrie, the contentes whereof are to be seene in the next page folowyng. By George Turberuile Gentleman.

To make your Hawke knowe your voyce.

IF your hawke be thus in foure or fiue dayes manned, so that she beginne to feede eagerly and boldely, then you shall fyrste beginne to make hir knowe youre whistle, or the chirping of your mouth: and afterwardes your voyce, in this maner. Take a quicke Pullette, and goyng into some secrete place, where your Hawke maye well perceyue the fowle, and yet see no great open lyght, let hir plume and feede vppon it, as shee sitteth vppon your fyst: then chyrke wyth your voyce, and vse those o∣ther soundes which Falconers do to their Hawkes: and feed hir so hooding hir gently: then afterwardes you may let hir plume a little vpon some wing, beeing still hooded, as well to loose hir in the heade, and to make hir cast water, as also to teache hir the better howe to sitte on the fyste. The feeding for a Falcon shall bee Pullettes, not verie olde, Calues heartes,

wethers harts, and hogges harts, and to giue hir a conuenient gorge, to the ende she may the better disgest both the grosse sub∣stance, and the slimie matter. But if your Falcon be not eager or sharpe set, then shall you do well to washe hir meate some∣tymes in fayre water, and some other whiles in vrine, wringing it a little and then feeding hir therewith, for one, two, or three gorges, and that not continually: but respecting a day or two betweene, and that is referred to the discretion of the good Fal∣coner. For this is done somewhat to abate a Hawke and to en∣seame hir. It shall not be amisse also in the morning when she is emptie both in the gorge and pannel, to conuey into hir a little Sugercandie, to the quantitie of a small nutte, for that dissol∣uing in hir, will make hir the better to endure, and will bothe breake the grosse substaunce, and disgest the glitte in hir, and al∣so will make hir eager, as shall be further sayd hereafter.