Of the Laner.
[illustration] depiction of hawk
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.
- Author
- 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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Page 47
THe Laner is a Hawke common in all Countries, specially in France, and other places elsewhere, for voluntarylie shee maketh her Eyrie, and buildeth in high trées and For∣rests and commonly in Crowes nests or in the high rockes & cliffes neare the sea, according as the country is for the pur∣pose.
The Haggart is somewhat lesse then the Falcon gentle, faire plummed when she is an entermewer, but of shorter talons 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, ye 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.]
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