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 a man should vse an Eyasse Hawke.

IF you haue Eyasse Hawks, you shall féede them most with Poultrie, Beefe, or Goates flesh: and this is done to keepe them from ill toyes: and when they bée well lured and tray∣ned, then beare them vpon the fist hooded, and ordered in all points according to the rule prescribed before in the first chap∣ter, and after thirty or forty dayes past, bring them to the flight, and the first, second, and third flight, you may bée fond ouer them, abating your fauour, afterwardes by little and little, vntill they be brought in perfect tune, spowting them often∣times with Wine and Water. For (as Martine say∣eth) some Eyasse Hawkes will not much bath them. Ne∣uerthelesse you ought therein also to vse discretion, for by often bathing or spowting, you may bring your Hawke very low, in such sort, that shée should haue more néede of a good gorge, than of bathing or spowting, and especially such Hawkes as are fierce of Nature, and will not often bathe of them∣selues.