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 Hawke that layes an Egge in the mew, or out of the Mew.

SOmetimes Hawkes are with egge in the mew, and efte withour the mew, whereby they fall sicke, and are in great daunger if there be not remedy had for it: which thing you shall easily perceyue by them in May & Aprill, at which times they are wont to be with egge. To remedy this inconueniēce, let the Hawkes meate bee washed in the vrine of a man-child of sixe or seuen yeares old, eight or nine dayes together, and that will kéepe her from laying. But if the egges bée al∣ready full fashioned within her, then to breake and dispatch them, yée must (as Master Martin sayeth) giue her the yolks

of a couple of egges réere rosted with butter, twice or thrice a wéeke: and that must bée done during the moneths of May and Aprill. For besides that, it will breake and wast away the egs within a hawke, it is good also to set them vp when they be low in state, howbeit you must remember that when∣soeuer yée minister this medicine, yee must giue them flesh withall, for it is of great nourishment.

Againe, Mallopin sayth, that to breake egges in a Hawke, yée must take of the liquor that bléedeth or oozeth out of vynes in March when they be cut, and with that liquor wash your Hawkes meat nine or ten dayes, and the egges will consume and waste away by that means, how great soeuer they be.