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.

Of the Hawke that is morfounded by some mischaunce.

SOmetimes it falleth out that Hawkes are morfounded by some mischaunce, and sometimes also by giuing them to great a gorge, specially when they be wette. For then they cannot in∣dewe nor put ouer theyr gorges, and so they surfeyte, bycause their meate conuerteth into slyme, and grosse humours which o∣uerthrowe their appetite, by meanes whereof they come often∣tymes to theyr bane. Yee shall knowe the disease by this, that if yee giue your Hawke a great gorge, specially ouer night, the next morning she will haue no lyst to hir breakefast, but be∣commeth colde, and so falleth into great disease. Mallopin in his booke of the Prince, giueth this medicine for it. When yee perceyue hir to be so morfounded, and to haue lost hir appetite, giue hir no meate that day, but set water before hir, and let hir bowze or bathe at hir pleasure. When shee hath bathed and is weathered agayne, throwe hir a liue Pigeon, and let hir kill it, and take as much of the bloud of it as shee lysteth, but let hir not eate past one of the legges at that tyme. Afterwarde set hir downe on some high thing, with water by hir, and beware of gi∣uing

hir any great gorge. Then for foure or fiue dayes togy∣ther giue hir fiue or sixe cloues of Maces, lapped vp in a hennes skinne, and that will recouer hir.

Notes

• Morfound is the Frenche worde which doth signifie on English the taking of colde.