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 helpe a Hawke that turneth tayle to tayle, and giveth over her game.

IT hapneth oftentimes, that when you haue let your Gos∣hawk flée at a Partridge, she wil neyther kill it, nor flée it to mark, but turneth tayle to tayle, as Falconers term it: that is when she hath flown it a bowshot or more, shée giueth it ouer and takes a trée. Then shall you call in your Spaniels to the retryfe, that way that your hawke flew the Partridge. And the Falconer drawing himselfe that way, may cast her out a quicke Partridge which he shall carry for such purposes in his Hawking bagge, in such sort as the Hawke may sée it, and thinke that it is the same which she flew. And so crying when

you cast it out, ware Hawke ware, make her seaze it, & feede her vpon it, that she may be encouraged thereby to flée out with a Partridge. The day following you shal not flée with her, as is before said, but prepare her against the third day, and set her sharpe: and if then also your Goshawke giu••••••er, serue her with a quicke Partridge againe. But if shée 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it the thirde time, I would not wish you to trouble your selfe any longer with such a vile Buzard, but ridde your handes of her, for sure it is great oddes that shée will neuer proue good. And yet if any man will trie his Hawke to the vttermost, than let him make her flée a Partridge which is flowne to the marke with some other well entered Hawke, at the first or second flight. And if she kill that, let him feed and reward her well, vsing her to such flights thrée or fouretimes, and so per∣aduenture shée may learne to holde out, and maintaine her flight the better.