Note E185 — 36.
Reading edition
A cage for moulting hawks was called a mewe. "For the better preservation of their health they strowed mint and sage about them; and for the speedier mewing of their feathers they gave them the slough of a snake, or a tortoise out of the shell, or a green lizard cut in pieces."—Aubrey's Wilts. MS. p. 341. Ducange (Glossary M. et I. Lat.) has "Muta, Accipitrum domuncula in qua includuntur falcones, cum plumas mutant; accipitres enim quotannis pennas mutant."