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
An hawke that hath loost her corrage: aman may knawe if he wiƚƚ take
good hede. For siche is hir maner. whan she is cast to a fowle. she
fleith a waywarde as thogh she knewe nott the fowle. Or ellis she wiƚƚ
flie a littyƚƚ way after. and a noon she yeueth it vpp. and for suche an
hawke thys is a goode medecyn.
¶ Take Oyle of spayne and tempere it with clere wyne. and with the yolke
of an egge and put therin befe. and therof yeue to yowre hawke .v.
morcellis. and then set hir in the sonne. and at euen fede hir with an
olde hote coluer. and if ye fede hir thꝰ iij tymys that hawke was neuer
so lusty nor so Ioly before. as she wiƚƚ be after and come to hir owne
corege.
¶ Othir make poudre of mecles that stynkith. and putt the poudre on the
flesħ of a pecoke and mediƚƚ the blode of the pecoke among the poudre.
and make hir to eete the flesħ.
A medecẏne that an hawke shall not lie ī mew for vnlustẏnese.
Take ferne Rotis that growith on an Oke. and oke appillis and make Iuce
of theym. and wete hir flesħ therin. &̄ feede the hawke .ij. timys or
.iij. and that shaƚƚ make hir to leue that
¶ A medicine for an hawke that hath the teẏne
An hawke that hath the teyne a man may sone knaw if he take hede. for
this is hir maner She wiƚƚ pante more for oon batyng then an other for
.iiij. & if she shulde flie a littyƚƚ wile she shuld almost lese her
breth. whether she be fatte or lene. and alway she makyth heuy chere.
and for that this is the medycyne.
Take a quantyte of the Redenesse of haseƚƚ with the poudre of Rasne and
peper and somwhat of gynger. and make thereof in fresħ grece iij.
pellettys and holde the howke to the fire and when she felith the hete
make hir to swalowe the .iij pellettys by strength. and knytte fast her
beke that she cast it not owte and do so thries. and she shaƚƚ be safe.
¶ Also take Rasne and Rubarbe. and grynde it to gedre. and make Iuce
therof and wete the flesħ therin. and yeue it hir to eete. and she shaƚƚ
be hooƚƚ.
¶ Also take alisawndre and the Roote of prima rose and the Roote of gro
gnauteles and seeth aƚƚ in the bottre of a kow and yeue hir .iij
morcellis euery day vnto the tyme that she be hoole. and looke that she
be voide when ye yeue hir the medecyne.
How a man shall take an hawke fro the Eẏrer
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