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THe Laners doe commonly Eyre in the Alpes that diuide Italy from Almaine: some of them are reasonable hawks, some of a middle sute, and some lesse. Their heads are white, & flat aloft, blacke and large eyed, slender nares▪, short beake & thicke, and lesser then the Haggart Falcons, or the Falcon gentle▪
They are marble or russet mailde, the brest feathers white, full of russet spots, the points and extremities of their feathers full of round white droppes. Their sayles and traynlong, they are short legged, with a foot somewhat lesse then the Falcons, marble seered: but béeing mewed, they change the seere of the foot to a yellow.
These Hawkes will brooke to ffée long on their wings after their maner, and when they espie one that goeth abroad with a Sparowhawke to the field, they presently follow & couer the spaniels, so as no sooner is the sparowhawk cast off to the par∣tridge, but if shée misse or come short of her game, the Laner stoopeth with great nimblenesse of wing, and eyther killeth the fowle, or otherwise enforceth it to stoope and fall amid the flight to the ground.
You shall neuer lightly sée a Laner lie vpon the wings, af∣ter shée hath flien to marke, but after one stouping, she maketh a point, and then doth awaite for the fowle after the maner of a Goshawke: for if she misse at the first downe-come, of kill not in the foote, she is by nature so slothfull and dull, as shée will séeke the aduantage to her greatest ease: and therefore, dooth commonly vse vpon the questing, and call of the Spaniels, to attend very diligently, and so to prey at her pleasure.
They are highly estéemed in France, & (as they say) ther made to the riuer, and there doe they vse to flée with the a caste or leash of Laners to the brooke, and sometimes with the Laners and Lanerets together, and sometimes doe flée the field with the Laner: but in Italy they doe not vse this kinde of hawke at all. With vs in England this kind of Hawke is in price, but accounted very slothfull and hard mettled, so as vnlesse you kéepe a very hard hand vpon her, shée will doe little good, cleane contrary to the nature of a Falcon gentle, who for one good v∣sage will shew a treble curtesie, and the better she is rewarded the better will shée flée: but vse the Laner wel, and shée maketh slender account therof, but becommeth slothfull, and vnapt to flée eyther field, or riuer.