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"By Edward Piers.

"Hey trola! trola! hey trola! trola!

there, there boyes, there!

hoicka! hoick! hoicka! whoope!

Crye, there they goe!

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With yeeble, yable; gible, gabble;

Hey with yeeble, yable, gible, gabble!

The hounds doe knock it lustily,

With open mouth, and lusty crye!"

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"A Hawkes-up for a Hunts-vp. By Thomas Ravenscroft,

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"Hawking for the Partridge. By Thomas Ravenscroft.

"Sith sickles and the sheering sythe,

Hath shorne the fields of late,

Now shall our hawkes and we be blythe:
Dame partridge ware your pate!
Our murdring kites,

In all their flights,

Will sild or neuer misse;

Seld or neuer

To truss you euer.

And make your bale our blisse.

Whur ret Duty; whur ret Beauty; whur ret Love; whur ret, hey

dogs, hey!

[hey dogs, hey!

Whurret Cater; whur ret Trea; whur ret Quando: whurret Nimble; ret,
Whur ret Trauell; ret, whur ret Trover; ret, hey, dogs, hey!
Whur ret Jew; whur ret Damsell; ret, whur ret, hey dogs, hey!

"Trussing is when a hawke raseth a fowle aloft, and so descendeth downe

with it to the ground.” 'Latham.

Ware

Ware haunt! hey Sempster!

Ret Faver, ret Minx, ret Dido, ret Ciuill, ret Lemmon, ret:
Whur, Whur, let flie! let flie!

O well flowne, eager Kite!

Marke! marke! O marke below the Ley;

This was a fayre and kingly flight.

We falkners thus make sullen kites,
Yeeld pleasure fit for kings;

And sport with them in those delights,
And oft in other things."

"For the Hearne and Ducke. By John Bennett.

"Lver falkners, lver; giue warning to the field;
Let flye, make mounting hearnes to yield.

Dye fearefull duckes, and climbe no more so high,

The Nyase hauke† will kisse the azure skye.

But when our soare baukes ‡ flye, and stiffe windes blow,
Then long to late we faulkners crye, hey lo! hey lo! hey lo."

J. H

P. 166.

The similarity to Lear, O well-flown bird, is noticed by Mr. Douce, Vol. II.

"Eyes or nias is a term borrowed from the French niais, which means any young bird in the nest, avis in nido. It is the first of five several names by which a falcon is called during its first year." Ib. Vol. I. p. 74.

‡ "Thirdlie (says Turbervile) they are called sore bawkes, from the ende of August to the laste of September, October, and Nouember." Latham has a more enlarged description. "The passenger soare faulcon is a more choice and tender hawke, by reason of her youth and tendernesse of age, and therefore she must be more carefullie kept and better fed then the other mewed hawkes, because they are more hard of ward; yet she will be as soone reclaimd and made a certaine hawke, and rather soo then the other, if she be well vsed, and respectiuely handled. And in those places where flying may be had, shee may bee found longer by a moneth than anie of the other."

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ART.

ART. II. The Secrets of Angling: teaching the choicest Tooles, Baits, and Seasons, for the taking of any Fish, in Pond or River: practised and familiarly opened in three Bookes. By J. D. Esquire. Augmented with many approved experiments. By W. Lauson. London: Printed by T. H. for John Harison, and are to be sold by Francis Coles, at his shop in the Old Bayly. 1652. 12mo.

The first edition of this work, a copy of which may be found in the Bodleian Library, appeared, of the same size, in 1613.

J. D. is usually considered as John Davors: and indeed is mentioned at length in the fifth edition of Walton's "Complete Angler," 1676. Though in the two first editions, 1653 and 1655, Jo. Da. only occurs.

The following verses, however, at the back of the title "In due praise of, his praise of his praiseworthy skill and worke," seem to leave a doubt whether Jo. Da. may not mean the very person by whose signature they are followed.

"In skils that all do seek, but few do find

Both gain and game; (like sun and moon do shine)
Then th' art of fishing thus is of that kind;

The angler taketh both with hook and line,

And as with lines, both these he takes, this takes
With many a line, well made, both ears & hearts,
And by this skill, the skil-lesse skil-full makes:
The corpes wherof dissected so he parts,
Upon an humble subject never lay,

More proud, yet plainer lines, the plain to lead.
This plainer art with pleasure to survay.

To purchase it with profit by that DEED:

Whe

Who think this skill's too low than for the high,
This Angler read, and they 'le be taine thereby.

Jo. DAVES."

The Dedication, signed R. I. which is in prose, is "To the worthy, and my respected friend, Mr. John Harbone of Tackley, in the county of Oxford, Esquire." After which is Lauson's address to the reader upon the short comment by which many of the stanzas are accompanied.

The following is the opening of

"The First Booke.

"Of Angling, and the art thereof I sing,

What kind of tooles it doth behove to have;
And with what pleasing bait a man may bring
The fish to bite within the wat`ry wave:
A work of thanks to such as in a thing

Of harmlesse pleasure have regard to save
Their dearest soules from sin, and may intend
Of pretious time some part thereon to spend.

You nimphs that, in the springs and waters sweet,
Your dwelling have, of every hill and dale,
And oft amidst the meadows green do meet
To sport and play, and hear the nightingale,
And in the rivers fresh do wash your feet,

While Progne's sister tels her wofull tale':
Such ayd and power unto my verses lend,
As may suffice this little worke to end.

And thou, sweet Boyd, that with thy wat'ry sway
Dost wash the Cliffes of Deington and of Week,
And through their rocks with crooked winding way,
Thy mother Avon runnest soft to seek;

• The name of a brook.

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