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 make a Sparowhawke, being eyther Soarehawke Ramage or Mewed Hawke.

NOw I haue spoken at large of Nyasse Sparowhawkes, it were méet that I should set downe some instructions also concerning Ramage Hawkes, and such as are taken when they haue preyed for themselues. And yet in effect the same precepts that serue for a Nyasse, will serue also for ra∣mage Hawkes and mewed Hawkes. But yet they, (I meane ramage and mewed Hawkes) require not so much paine to make them know their game, nor to enter them, because they haue béene practised in preying for themselues, & the Nyasses are altogether ignorant and simple: so that the Nyasses must be taught to know their game, in a manner, euen as they are taught by the bréeder in the wood, the which (as I haue heard old Falconers tell) when her yong Hawkes goe out of the nest, and can hoppe or flecke from one bough to another, commeth in with some prey vnto them, and calling

them altogether, she fleeth aloft, and lets the bird fall amongst them, so that which soeuer of them catcheth it w^t her tallents, féedeth vppon it for that meale, and then returneth the olde Hawke for some prey, vntill shée haue fedde them all & taught them to foote their prey. And therefore when a man hath them, Nyasse which neuer were taught so by the bréeder, hee must practise as neare as he can like the olde hawke, to teach them to foot, and to kil their prey, and to know it, the which you shal not be troubled with in a Soare, ramage, or mewed Hawke. For they which beare those names, haue learnt to prey for themselues: and most of all the mewed haggart Hawkes, for they are throughly nousled and trayned therein, yea and most commonly they haue learnt such conditions, that with all the paines wée can take, few of them can bee brought to any good perfection. But he which hath a Haggart Sparowhawk, must aboue all thinges take paines in weyning her from that vile fault of carrying, & that shall he do by seruing her often with great pullets, and other great traines, the which she cannot carry, and thereby she will learne to abide vpon the quarrey. Also they which delight in Haggarts, must take great héede that they offend them not, but rather coy them asmuch as they can with all deuises of fauour & cherishing, for they will remē∣ber fauor or iniurie much better than any other kind of hawk. And of the same condition are Lentiners for the most part, the which are called with vs March Hawkes or Lentiners, be∣caus they are taken in Lent with lime or such like means. And the Italians call them Marzarolli, because they are taken in March or thereabouts: so that the Etymologie of the name procéedeth all vpon one cause, and they are called so whether they be Soar-hawkes or mewed hawkes. Neyther is there any great difference betweene them and Haggarts for euill conditions, but the Lentiners are more subiect to moist hu∣mors, and especially in the head, and therefore you must plie them with casting and scowring, as shall be more at large de∣clared in the Treatise of medicines.