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Of the Falcon, and how many sorts of Falcons there are.
[illustration] depiction of hawk
THere are seauen kinds of Falcons, & among them all for her noblenesse and hardy courage, & withal ye francknes
The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.
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- The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman.
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- Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
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- At London :: Printed by Thomas Purfoot,
- 1611.
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- Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The booke of falconrie or havvking for the onely delight and pleasure of all noblemen and gentlemen : collected out of the best authors, aswell Italians as Frenchmen, and some English practises withall concerning falconrie / heretofore published by George Turbervile, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14017.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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of her mettell, I may, and do meane to place the Falcon gen∣tle in chiefe.
1 This Falcon is called the Falcon Gentle, for her gentle and courteous condition and fashions. In heart and courage she is valiant, ventrous, strong, and good to brooke both heate and cold, as to whome there commeth no weather amisse at any time, whereas the most part of other Hawkes, eyther are lightly offended with the one or the other, and must haue a hand kept vpon them accordingly, or otherwise there is no great pleasure to be taken in them.