The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armourBerners, Juliana
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The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour
Berners, Juliana
Falconry -- Early works to 1800; Heraldry -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800
¶ Also and ye yeue yowre hawke fresħ butter or the marow of hogges that
is in the bone of the butte of porke. it shaƚƚ make hir to cast water
wele at the nares. and it will kepe the nares opyn. bot it wiƚƚ make hir
hawtyn and prowde
¶ A medecẏne for the Craẏ & moo folow
Take and chafe with yowre hondys the fundement of yowre hawke with luke
water a longe tyme. and after that take the powder of Saxifrage or ellis
the powder of Rewe. and a quantite of may butter. and temper hit weeƚƚ
to geder tiƚƚ thay ben euen medlide. than putte it in a littyƚƚ box and
stoppe it faste. & as oftyn as yow fede yowre hawke an hoole meele
anoynt hire meete a littyƚƚ ther with. and that shaƚƚ make hir to loue
meet the bettir for loue of the oyntement. and it shaƚƚ saaue hir fro
the Cray and from mony oder sekeneses: that gender ofte in an hawke.
¶ Also take the hoote hert of a swyne or of a pigge and feede her .ij.
days therwith. and she shaƚƚ be hoole.
¶ Also take porke and weete it in hoote mylke of a cowe. &̄ fede the
hawke therwith. and that shaƚƚ make hir mutyse att the best.
¶ Also poorke with the mary of the boon of the but of porke shaƚƚ make
hir mutise &̄ fede hir with booth to geder.
¶ Also vse hir to fresh butter and it wiƚƚ doo thessame.
¶ Also oon mele or .ij. at the most of the hoote leuer of a pig shaƚƚ
make hir to mutyse weele. be ware ye yeue hir not to grete a goorge
therof. for it is a perlous meete
¶ Also take y^e white of an egge. &̄ labur thessame ī a spoge as weele
as ye wolde make glayre for rede Inke tiƚƚ it be like wat̄. put thessame
ī a vesseƚƚ. & let the meete y^t shaƚƚ be for hir soꝑ: ly a stepe ther
in aƚƚ the day be for. &̄ at night fede hir therw^t and that the wich
shaƚƚ be for hir dyner in the mornyng let it ly aƚƚ the nyght. bot in
any wyse that ye haue alway fressħ gleyre. and if hir fedyng be poorke
it is the bettir. y^t is proued
¶ The kẏndeli termis that belong to hawkis
In the begynnyng of kyndeli spech of the termys that belong to hawkys
here ye may fynde theym ¶ The first is holde fast at aƚƚ timys. and
specially whan she batith. It is calde batyng. for she batith with hir
selfe most oftyn causeles
¶ The secunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyst. & thatt is whan
yowre hawke batith. the leest meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyst
she wiƚƚ rebate ayen vppon yowre fyst
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