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 May 21, 2024.
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Of the time to mewe a Falcon.
LEtte vs now speake of the order how to mewe hawkes, and of the Mewes. First, to speake of Falcons, they may bée flowen withall vntill Saint Georges day, that is a∣bout the middest of Aprill. Then set them downe. And you must diligently marke, whether they haue any lyse or not. And if they haue, pepper them to kill the sayde lyse, and skowre them before you cast them into the mewe. That being done, you may put them into the mewe. There