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.
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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.
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Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?
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At London :: Printed by Thomas Purfoot,
1611.
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Falconry -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14017.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Of a Hawke that hath no list to flee, and is become vnlusty, or slothfull.
NOw and then it hapneth, that a Hawke hath no list to flée, eyther because she is in euill kéeping, that is to wit, of such as know not how to giue her her rightes: as bow∣zing, bathing, and such other things, whereof sometime shée hath great néed: or because the hawk is too hie, & full of grease, where through she becōmeth coy: or contrariwise, because she is too low and poore: or else by reason of some mishap or disease which shée hath that is vnknown. Therefore M. Cassian saith, if a hawke be vnlusty to flée, she must be viewed and perused by some one of good skill, and haue such remedies ministred to her, as she hath néed of, as wel for bathing as for bowzing: For
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in any wise water must be set before her. And if shée bée high and not well enseamed, her meat must bée throughly washed, that it may scowre her the better. Or else if ye list, yee may giue her the foresaide medicine of Larde, Marrow, and saf∣fron. And if ye perceiue your hawke to be sicke or diseased, ye may vse the remedies set downe heretofore, according to the seuerall natures of the diseases, till your hawke bae in good plight againe as shée was before. [But truely there is no∣thing better for this euill then to giue herin a morning thrée or foure handsome pyls of Seladine well washt.* 1.1]