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 Pantas that is in the reynes and Kidneys.

IT hapneth sometimes that when a hawke hath béene reco∣uered of some great griefe by good kéeping and intendance, afterward shée waxeth euill againe, and falleth to panting, wherof bréedeth this disease of the reines and kidneis, in ma∣ner of a canker, as big as a bean, which swelleth bigger & big∣ger, in such wise that shée falleth to casting some part of her meat. This Pantas differeth much from both the other: for it will leaue her seuen or eight dayes, & then vexe her again more strongly. And somtimes it will take her but from Moneth to Moneth, so as she shall beare it out a whole yeare. It is discer∣ned by this, that when she panteth, she stirreth her reins more thā her pineons, wheras in the other she stirreth more her pi∣nions than her reines. Againe, to know it truly when it com∣meth and goeth euery seuen or eight dayes, if your Hawke chance to die, rippe her and you shall find a knubbe of the big∣nes of a small beane full vpon the reynes and the small of her backe whereof that disease procéedeth.

Master Cassian giueth this remedie for it. Yée must take the roots of Capers, of Fenel, of Smallage, and of Parsley and boyle them together in a new potte, to the consumprion

of a third part. Then take an olde Tyle, the older the bet∣ter, and make powder thereof. When you serue your hawke, féede her with flesh stéeped in the water of the saide rootes, a quarter of an howre, or therabouts afore hād. In the morning when yée giue her of that washt meat, giue her none of y^e pou∣der, and at night wash not her meat with the sayde Water, but besprinckle it with the powder, so competently as she may receiue it, and giue her not at any time aboue halfe a gorge: let this be done nine or ten dayes or more. If ye sée that your Hawke amend not, continue it still: for then was the disease very much confirmed, and the hawke had borne it out long, & it is hard to be cured. But if yée take the disease when it is new and gréene, plie her diligently with this Medicine, and it will helpe her.