Note 320 — SCENE V.
Reading edition
"Stooping," says Latham, "is when a hawke, being upon her wings at the height of her pitch, bendeth violently down to strike the fowle, or any other prey." So in "The Alchymist," act v. sc. 5—
Here stands my dove: stoop at her if you dare."
Again, Milton, in "Paradise Lost," bk. xi. 1. 185.
"The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove."