How to continue and keep a Hawk in her high-flying.
If your Hawk be a stately high-flying Hawk, you ought not to engage her in more flights than one in a morning: for often flying brings her off from her stately pitch. If she be well made for the River, fly her not above twice in a morning; yet feed her up though she kill not.
When a high-flying Hawk being whistled to, gathers upwards to a great gate, you must continue her there∣in, never flying her but upon broad Waters and open Rivers; and when she is at the highest, take her down with your Lure; where when she hath plumed and broken the Fowl a little, then feed her up, and by that means you shall maintain your Faulcon high-flying, in∣wards, and very fond of the Lure.
Some will have this high-flying Faulcon seldom to kill, and not to stoop: yet if she kill every day, al∣though she stoop from a high Gate, yet if she be not rebuked or hurt therewith, she will, I can assure you, become a higher flier every day than other; but she will grow less fond of the Lure. Wherefore your