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A11257 A ievvell for gentrie Being an exact dictionary, or true method, to make any man vnderstand all the art, secrets, and worthy knowledges belonging to hawking, hunting, fouling and fishing. Together with all the true measures for winding of the horne. Now newly published, and beautified with all the rarest experiments that are knowne or practised at this day. T. S., fl. 1614.; Berners, Juliana, b. 1388? Boke of Saint Albans. 1614 (1614) STC 21520; ESTC S110758 61,935 100

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second one short and one long The third one long and fiue short The death of the Foxe at thy Lords gate TWo notes and then the reliefe thrée times The death of the Bucke eyther with Bow or Hounds or Grey-hounds ONe long Note The knowledge vpon the same TWo-short and one long The death of the Bucke with Hounds TWo long notes and the rechate The price of an Hart ryall NIne Notes with thrée restes The Rechate with thrée winds The first one long and fiue short The second one long and one short The third one long and sixe short To blow the call of the keepers of any Parke or Forrest ONe short one long and a longer If the kéeper answere you blow two short with one winde and draw towards him And after that blow one short When the game breaketh couered FOure with thrée winds and the Rechate vpon the same The stent when the hounds can hunt no further With thrée winds the first one long and sixe short The second one long and one short The third one long Where the Foxe is earthed blow for the Terriers after this manner ONe long and two short The second winde one long and two short Note this for it is the chiefest and principallest point to be noted Euery long containeth in blowing seauen quauers one Minome and one quauer One Minome contayneth foure quauers One short contayneth thrée quauers The end of the measures of blowing A Briefe Treatise of Fowling Wherein is contained diuers proper Deuises both of Baytes and others with the making of Bird-lime the manner and order in vsing of it on your Lime-rods with many other speciall points appertaining to that Exercise LONDON Printed for Iohn H●lme and are to be sould at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet 1614. A Treatise of Fowling Wherein is contayned diuers proper Deuises both of Baytes and others with the making of Birdlime the manner and order in vsing of it on your Lime-rods with many other speciall points appertaining to that Exercise AS to the ornament of the Ayre belongeth Birds and Fowles as Beda saith which I meane in this Treatise to set forth Birds be called Aues as it were deuide without way as Plinie saith for their waies in the ayre are not distinguished in certaine and birds with mouing of their wings diuide and depart the ayre but anone after the flight the ayre closeth it selfe leauing no signe or token of their passage and flight And Fowles be called Volucres and haue that name of Volary to flie for Birds flie with wings as Isidore saith and therefore they be called Alites as it were Alates that is mouing and rearing vp themselues with wings for they flie not without wings nor areare themselues from the earth vp into the ayre without the benefit of their wings or else a Bird is called Ales and hath that name of Alendo féeding for he is fed of himselfe that féedeth birds and fowles of heauen giueth meat to all flesh as Isidore saith The condition and properties of Birds be knowne by diuers things by their substance and complexion for the substance of birds and fowles be made of two middle Elements that be betwéene the two Elements that be most heauy and most light for in their compositions and making Ayre and Water hath most mastrie and therefore they haue lesse of earthly heauinesse and more of lightnes of the Ayre then Beasts that goe on land and swim in water By lightnesse of the substance they be boren into the Ayre as Isidore saith and the Ayre that is closed in the hollownes of pens and feathers maketh a Bird light and disposeth and maketh him able and helpeth him to mount vpward Also the condition of Birds is knowne by generation for they haue a feminal vertue of kinde plight in them by vertue therof they be kindly moued to increase their kinde by déede of generation and to kéepe their kind in order As it is said of Aristotle all Birds saith he and Fowles when they bring forth Birds lay Egs though it cannot be séene in all for scarcity and the beginning of a generation of a Bird as it is said it commeth of the white and his meate is the yolke and after ten daies of the generation a Bird is full shapen in all parts and the parts be openly distinguished and knowne but then his head is greater then all his bodie and if the Egge-shell were then broken the head should be found bowed vpon the right thigh and his wings spread vpon the head When the generation of all the members is perfectly made and liniation and shape of the members the shel breaketh sometime the eightéenth day or the twentieth day as it fareth in Hens and then the Chickins come out of the shell aliue being full shapt and sometime twaine out of one shell Among all Beasts that be in order of generation Birds and Fowles be most honest of kinde for by order of kind Males seeke Females with businesse and loue them when they be found and fight and put themselues in perill for them be ioyned to them onely as it were by couenant and wedding loue and nourish and féed only the Birds that they get so kindly they déeme and know betwéene sexe sexe male and female except few whose kind goeth out of kinde as Aristotle sheweth an example of the Partrich that forgetteth his sexe that is to vnderstand the dissolution of male and female and so he saith that the male leapeth vpon the male the female vpon the female But of the Egges that come of such treading come no Birds but they be as winde-Egges and take an euill sauor of such treading and an euill stinch And Birds and Fowles ingendering kéepe couenable time for in spring time when the generation commeth in Birds cry sing males draw to company of females and desire each other of loue and woe with beakes and voyce build Nests and lay Egges and bring forth Birds and when the Birds be gendered they féede and nourish them and bring them vp but when the office off generation is full ended then they cease off song and depart from each other come not together till the time of generation commeth againe Also Birds and Fowles be knowne by the places that they dwell in for some Birds and Fowles as me séemeth loue company and dwelleth nigh men as Hens Géese Sparrowes Storkes and Swallowes and some dread and flye and be afraide of conuersation with men as Fowles of woods of mountaines and marries for by their diuers complections they séeke and challenge diuers manners of places to inhabite in As we may sée in our owne country of England some Fowles vse some sheires more then other some and in some sheires there come none of some Fowles at all as they doe in other sheires For those that be cold and moist of kind vse marshes and Riuers for gathering of meate and making of Nests for sitting abroode