[58] Titus Andronicus, IV. iv. 83.
[59] Venus and Adonis, 55.
[60] 1 Henry IV. II. iv. 320.
[61] Taming of the Shrew, IV. i. 172.
[62] Romeo and Juliet, II. ii. 158. The tassel-gentle or tercel-gentle was the male gos-hawk, much used in falconry.
[63] 2 Henry VI. II. i. 1-46.
[64] Chaucer alludes to
The gentil faucon, that with his feet distreyneth
The Kinges hond.
Parliament, 337.