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To make a Goshawke flee to the Partridge.
[illustration] depiction of hawk
WHen your Go shawk is thus manned and cunning, then may you goe into the field with her, carrying
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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- 1611.
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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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with you a traine Partridge if need be: and vnhooding your Hawk, bear her as quietly as you can: you may let her plume or tyre a litle to make her eager. And if the Partridge spring, let her flée: if she marke one, or two, or more on the ground, then goe to her fayre and softly, and manacing her with your hand, or with a wand, cause her to take Pearch on some trée thereby. Then if you can retriue the Partridge with your spa∣niels, as soone as it springeth, you must cry Howit, Howit: and if she flee it to the marke againe, you must put her to a trée, and retriue it the second time, crying when it springeth as before said. And if she kill it, féed her vp with it: but if so chance that the Spaniels should take it, as oftentimes hote Spaniels light vpon the Partridge, being eyther flown out of breath, or o∣therwise surcharged with feare: then alight from your horse quickly, & taking it from the Spaniel, cast it out to your hawk crying, (ware hawke ware) and let her féed her fil on it. The next day you shal not flee with her, because hauing fed & rewarded her with bloody meat, she wil not so soon be in good case to flée againe. For such meat is not so easily endewed by a hawke, as the leg of a chicken or such like. Vsing her thus thrée or four times, she will be well in blood, and become well fléeing at this pleasant field-flight.