The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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Title: The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.
Author: Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721.
Publication: London :: Printed, and are to be sold by Jos. Phillips ... and Hen. Rodes ...,; 1686.
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Subject terms: Hunting -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Fishing -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Fowling -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Falconry -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Game laws -- England.
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Cite this Item: "The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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Of the Cataract.

The Cataract in the Eyes of a Hawk, is a malady not easily removed, and sometimes incurable, when it is too thick and of a long continuance.

It proceedeth from gross Humours in the Head, which frequently do not onely dim, but extinguish the sight: and sometimes the Hood is the cause of this mis∣chief.

The cure must be effected by Scowring her two or three days with Aloes or Agarick: then take the pow∣der of washt Aloes finely beaten one scruple, and two scruples of Sugar-candy; mingle these together, and with a Quill blow it into your Hawk's Eye afflicted as aforesaid three or four times a day. This is the gentlest and most Soveraign Medicine of any yet I have tried. But if this will not do, you must use stronger Medicines, as the juice of Celandine-roots, bathing their eyes often with warm Rose-water wherein hath been boil'd the seeds of Fenugreek.