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I Like it well that men flée with a cast of Merlines at once at the Larke or the Lenet. For ouer and besides that they of themselues loue company and to flée together, they doe also giue greater pleasure or delight to the lookers on. For now
that one (at the stooping) strikes the birde, and then that other at her downe come: and when that one climeth to the mown∣tie aboue the Larke, then that other lyeth low for her best ad∣uantage, which is most delectable to behold. Yea and some∣times the poore birds become so fearefull, that they shrowde themselues in the houses and chambers of such as dwell neare the fieldes. So that both the birde and the Hawke are often∣times taken both together by the countryman. And therfore it shall not be amisse to tye vnto their Iesses or Bewets some veruile bearing the armes of their owner & master, (as if they were falcons) to the end they may be restored vnto them. But to returne to my purpose, I say that when the Merlynes are throughly manned, and made gentle, you may carry them in∣to the field, where hauing found a Larke or a Lenet, (making loose her hoode) you must goe as neare as you can into the wind to the bird. And as soon as the bird riseth from the ground, vn∣hoode your cast of Merlyns, and cast them to flée vntill they haue beaten downe the Larke or Lenet, and let them féede on her for their labour indifferently. But herewithall note that there is a kind of Larks, (called cutte Larkes) which doe not mount as the long spurd field Larke doeth, but flée foreheade before the Merlyn. In any case let them not flée such Larkes, for neyther will they make you like pastime, nor yet can you flée them without danger of léesing your Merlynes.