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.

For the disease that breedeth in the Nares of Hawkes.

ANother disease bredeth in Hawks nares, so as they swel excéedingly: and sometime vpon the horne of the beake there ryseth a crust, at the remouing whereof the flesh is found to be raw vnderneath the clappe, insomuch that diuers times they loose the one halfe of their beake. Master Amè Cassian saith, that the hawke hath small Mites in her head, which créepe downe alongst her beake, & entring in at her nares, do bréede the saide disease: and that the hawke féeling them, and being molested therwith, thrusteth her talents into her nares. Or else it hapneth sometimes that a cast of Hawkes doe bur∣cle and crab together, and thereof bréedeth the said disease. M. Amè Cassian prouideth for it this remedy following. Make lit∣tle matches of paper, of y^e bignes of the tag of a point, & let your hawke be cast handsomly, & set your matches on fire w^c a can∣dle, & seare your hawke vpon the place swollen, taking good heed y^t you do it not too roughly. Which being done, annoint it the next morning with a little Hennes grease, and so will it heale well, and her beake and nares will not be stuft but re∣mayne open. Neuerthelesse yée must be faine sometimes to touch her with an yron, which is more dangerous than the other.

Notes

• Here is lefte out the man∣ner of caute∣rizing a hawks nares because the Italian hath set it downe.