The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

To raise a Hawk that is poor and low. [ 50]

THis is occasioned by an ill Faulconer, in not feeding and ordering her well to pre∣vent Distempers, or else by Soaring away, and being left for some time to seek her own Prey she becomes Poor and Low.

To raise her up, feed her but a little at a time and often, with good Meat of a light Dige∣stion.

If she hath lost her Stomach, either by taking [ 60] too great a Gorge in the Evening that she can't well Endew, or by being foul in the Pannel, or having taken a Cold; Take Aloessiccatrine, boiled Sugar, and Beef-Marrow, of each a like quantity, mix them and make them into Pills, which give her, holding her in the Sun, or by the Fire in Cold Weather, until she hath cast up the filth and slime within her, and feed her not until Noon; and then give her Pigeons, small Birds, or the like Meat.