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.

Of wormes that molest and trouble hawkes out of measure.

NOw doe I hold it high time, and the place very conueni∣ent to write of such kinds of wormes, as do trouble and vexe the poore hawke as her mortall enemies, which after a sort doe depend of the gorge, through whose weakenesse there are engendred grosse and viscuous humors in the bowels of a hawke, where béeing weakely wrought by default of naturall heat, the humor conuerts into small wormes a quarter of an ynch long and more.

You may perceiue these wormes to plague and trouble your hawke, when you sée her cast her gorge, when her breath stinkes, when shee trembleth and writheth her traine, when shée croakes in the night, offereth with her beake to her panel, when her mewt is not cleane, white, nor in such aboundance as it ought to be. And besides all this, when your Hawke

keepes at one stay, and is low of flesh continually.

In this case it behooues you to destroy these wormes eyther with a scowring of washt Aloes Epaticke, Mustard seede, and Agarick, of each one equall portions, vsing to giue it as I haue taught you before. Or else by ministring the pouder of the Gal of a Bore pig dryed in the smoake: or if these fayle, to giue the powder of Harts horne being dried.

White Dittander, Hiera pigra minore, (for there are sundry kinds of it) of each two drams, Aloes Epaticke well washte thrée drams, Agaricke, Saffron, of each one dram, being al in∣corporate with hony of Roses, is an excellent remedie against the wormes. You must kéepe it well, and giue Falcons, Go∣shawkes and such like, the bignes of a beane, but to Sparow∣hawkes, and the lesser sort of Hawkes, as much as a pease, in forme of a pyll, thrusting it downe your Hawkes throat, kée∣ping her after it a space on the fist, till she haue slised and mew∣ted her medicine, feeding her afterward with good meat after your wonted maner. And this shall recouer her, and kill the wormes.

For the same disease it is very good to giue a scowring of white Dittander, Aloes Epaticke well washt, Cubebes foure or fiue, a few flakes of saffron, enwrapped in a morsell of flesh, to cause the hawke the better to take it.

This receit no doubt will both make the hawke to slyse and mewt, and withall recouer her. For it is an approued remedy against the worms, and specially when the hawke doth writh and wrest her traine.

Againe, take Rheuponticum, Sugar Candy, filings of yron, of each like quantity, of these, with iuyce of Wormewood, frame pyls, & conueying them into the skinne of a chicken, giue your hawke one pyll at a time, and it shall doe her pleasure.