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.

Advertisement given by Master Martine, to make a Hawke bold and hardy, and to love her prey.

IF you would haue your Hawke hardy, kéepe her often∣times all day long vpon your fist, and féede her with Pul∣lets flesh early in the morning, as much as shall be sufficent for a beaching, that doone, set her abroade in the Sunne, with water before her, to the end shée may bath when shée will, and bowze, as naturally they are enclyned to doe, and it doth them singular great pleasure, for bowzing may oftentimes preserue them from sicknesse, and yet sometimes a Hawke bowzeth after some disease, whereof shée hath long languished, and dy∣eth, or else shée is thereby recured: for after such a disease, bow∣zing doth either cure her, or quite dispatch her. Now when you haue doone as is before sayd (whether shée bath or not) you shall take your Hawke vppon your fist, and so kéepe her on the fist vntill you goe to bedde, and when you goe to bedde set a candle before her, which may last all the night, and in the morning (if she did bath) you shall set her in the Sunne for one howre vntill shée be well weathered, and then after∣wards (if shee did not bath) take wine and water, and therwith bespout her well with your mouth thrée howres after, setting her in the Sunne againe, and (for lacke of Sunne-shine)

before the fire, vntyll shée bée very well dryed, and if you bée well assured that shee is throughly enseamed cleane, and hath béen well manned by the space of thirty or fortye dayes, then may you flée the fielde with her, and if you perceyue that shée hath good desire to flée, let her flée, and if shée kill any thing giue her a good gorge therevpon, but if shée kill nothing, then feede her with the legge or the wing of an Henne or a Pullet washed in cleane running water, keeping her still vpon the fiste as is before sayd: and the next day flee with her agayne, and if she kill any thing, giue her her reward, and keepe her in this order vntill she be perfectly entred and quarred: but then you must haue discretion, for sometimes by this order, you may bring her low, in such sort that she should not easily be recouered to make her flight strongly. Yet Martine sayth the contrarye, but if an Hawke be very hard and stubborne to her Keeper in her flight, then let her be well spowted againe with luke-warme water, and so set abroade all night in the o∣pen ayre. In the morning let her bee set eyther in the Sunne or before the fire, where when shee hath well proyned her, you may goe flee with her, and if shee kill and flee well, then keepe her in this order and tune, for else she may take sundry euill toyes. And this precept serueth as well for them that desire to haue good Hawkes for the fielde, as otherwise: and if you would haue your Hawkes loue their prey, take Cynamon and Sugarcandye, of each a like quantitie, and make thereof a powder, and when your Hawke hath killed any thing, & that you come to rewarde her, sprinckle some of that powder vpon the part wherewith you reward her, and it shall make her loue that kind of prey the better euer afterwardes.