To keepe Hawkes from inconveniences which they take of themselues, or which happen to them vnawares.
FVrthermore, to preserue Hawkes from mischiefes which they take lightly by cold or otherwise: when ye haue ba∣thed & weathered them, beware of setting them in cold & moist places, but choose some warme and drie place, and with some cloth roll the pearch or billet that they stand on. For diuers times when hawkes haue beaten and bruised themselues at the encounter, with great toyle in the field or at the riuer, they bée so tyred, and take cold so lightly, & do so chafe their féet, that if yée should set them downe in that plight vpon a stande of stone or wood, their legges and féete would swell by reason of the humors that would fall downe & distill from the higher parts, and by that meane bréed gowtes, as hapneth in men by like disorder. For such diseases light not to men, nor yet to Hawkes, but for want of good héed and looking to when they haue distempered themselues by any immoderate exercise. When such diseases light vpon poore birdes, they be hard to