Of a kind of Pippe that is in a Hawke.
THe Pip commeth chiefly of cold and moistnes of the head: and somtimes of féeding your hawke with euil and rotten flesh without washing it, and making it cleane in warme wa∣ter in the winter, and in cold water in the Summer. Wherof ingendereth slimy & grosse humors in the body, which ascēd vp to the head, and ingender the pip on the top of the tong as yée sée commonly fall out in chickens. And yée may perceiue this disease by your hawkes often sniting, and by making a noyse twice or thrice in her sniting. Master Amé Cassian saith, that to remedy this disease, you must cast your hawke gently, and looke vpon the tip of her tong: and if you find her to haue the pip, yée must scowre her with a pyll made of Agarik and Iera∣pigra, giuen two or thrée dayes together with her casting to∣wards night, and that will rid her of the Rhewm in her head, the rather if shée bée made to tire against the sunne in the mor∣nings as is said afore. M. Malopin in his booke of the Prince, sayth, that to cure the pip, yée must bind a little cotton vpon a sticks end, and dipping it in swéet rosewater, wash her tongue well with it: and afterward annoint it thrée or four daies with oyle of Almonds, and oyle oliue, wel washed as is before said: and when yée haue done so, yée shall find the pip all white and soft. Then take an awle, and with the point of it lift vp the pip softly, remouing it as women do pip their chickens. Howbeit yée must not remoue it till it bée full ripe: for if yee take it too gréene, you shall hurt your hawke. And looke that yée wet her tong and palat twice or thrice a day with the foresaid oyle, till shée be throughly cured.