Note 361 — Chapter XXIX · TRAINING THE T̤ARLĀN OR PASSAGE GOSHAWK

The Boke of St. Albans gives the following “Medecyne for an hawke that has lost here corage”:—“Take Oyle of spayne and tempere it With clere Wine. and With the yolke of an egge and put therein befe. and thereof geue to youre hawke. v. morcellis. and then set hir in the sonne. and at euen fede hir With an old hote coluer. and if ye fede hir thꝰ iii tymys that hawke Was neuer so lusty nor so Joly before. as she Will be after and come to hir owne corege” (page 26). In Bert’s Treatise of Hawks and Hawking, 1619 (page 101 of Harting’s Edition; reprinted by Quaritch) there is a somewhat similar receipt for a “Hawke that hath lost her courage and ioyeth not, or is lowe in flesh.” For “turning tayle” and “to bring stomake,” A Perfect Booke for Kepinge of Sparhawkes or Goshawkes (written about 1575 and first printed from the original MS. by J. E. Harting in 1886), says, “stepe her meate in claret wyne and the yoke of an egg and nyp it drye and so give it, and it will bring her stomake.”