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.

Of the Hawe in the eye which commeth of moysture and cold, and how it hapneth.

MOreouer somtimes there grows a great disease in their eyes which is named the Hawe and commeth after the same manner that it commeth in horses: namely, sometime by a blow or a stripe, sometime by a disease in the head, and most commonly by hurting of the eye with the streightnesse of the hoode, or by some other misfortune which cannot some∣times bée eschewed. And you shall discerne the cōming of this disease, by seeing a little filme growing vp from the bending of her beake, and couering her eye by little and little. And this filme is somewhat blacke afore, and is called the hawe, which putteth out the eye if it once ouergrow the ball of it. To re∣medy the same, take a little néedle that is very sharp pointed, and fine thréeded with a silke thréed, and therewith take vppe the hawe handsomely, and cut it with a little slicer, as horse∣leaches doe to horses, but beware that you cut it not too much for hurting of the eye, which you must wash with Rose wa∣ter three dayes together. In these cures of diseases that grow in the eyes, there must bée great eare vsed for feare of a greater mischiefe, because of the daintinesse of the place.