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.

How to flee with the Lanner from the fish.

[illustration] depiction of hawk

LAnners are much estéemed in France, for they flée with them (a cast or more at once) to the Riuer also. And be∣cause they are hawkes (which maintaine long slightes,) they tyre a fowle in such sorte, that with dogges and hawking poles they kill many, and by that meanes they spoyle more with a Laner, than with a better hawke. Thus much I haue heard by credible reports. These Laners are flowen withall at Partridge also & Feazant, and some say that many of them proue very good therefore. But in Italie they vse no such flée∣ing, pereduenture because there is no great skill in it. If you would flée with a Laner, you must kéep her maruailous short and sharpe set. For they are of the same nature that a Sa∣cre, and that one (in manner) is made euen as that other is: and because they kéepe their castings long, by reason they are hard metteld hawkes, you shall not giue them casting of cot∣ton, but of towe, or knottes of Hempe, or the shauing of a Ha∣sell wand. And if you giue them any cotton casting, yet put the towe or knottes of Hempe on the outside of it, and so be∣cause they take small pleasure therein, they wil cast the sooner. Let this suffice to be said of these kinds of hawks, because they are ordinary, & their natures too well known of all men.