Note 220 — THE WORLD TOST AT TENNIS.
Reading edition
talenter] i. e. hawk. Our early poets repeatedly use talent for talon:
“His talents red with blood of murthered foules.”
Drayton’s Owle, 1604, sig. D 2.
See, too, the quibble in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, act iv. sc. 2. “If a talent be a claw,” &c.