How men should make their Hawkes to tyre every day.
I Say further, that the good Falconers and such as haue a care to vse their Hawkes well, and to kéepe them in health, must make them to tire towards the euenings before they let them iouke. When your hawke hath put ouer and in∣dued, afterward in giuing her casting, you may well at your discretion giue her (if you list) a little Aloes Cicotrine in her casting, or else some common pyll, & that doth greatly scowre the head, and do her much good. And that must bée done eyther once a wéeke, or twice in thrée wéekes: and the said medicine is giuen diuers times by such as like not to giue their Hawks tiring. Neuerthelesse I say that tyring in the morning after the Hawke hath cast, is very good: And if the tyring bée of plu∣mage, kéepe her from eating of feathers (as well as you may) for feare least shee take casting before the euening: for to∣wards night it is no danger, for then of common course shée is to haue casting. Let her tyre against the Sunne, snyting and sewing her beake a little at your discretion, after as you find your Hawke low and poore, vntill you intend to goe to your pastime. I haue knowne many Falconers that neuer make their hawkes to tyre, saying, that it is but a custom, and néedlesse: but I say the contrary. For inasmuch as the Hawke is exercised by reasonable tyring, shée becommeth the healthier and the lighter both of body and of head, by all mo∣derate exercises, yea, and shée is the better in state also as you may perceyue. And I belieue that the opinion of such as say so, procéedeth of nothing but of sloth and of small loue which they haue to their hawkes. Therfore forget not to make your Hawke to tyre against the Sunne in the morning: for it rid∣deth them the better of the watry humors that descend out of