Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,
Till either gorge be stuff’d, or prey be gone.”
Venus and Adonis.
So also, in Timon of Athens (Act iii. Sc. 6), one of the lords says:—
“Upon that were my thoughts tiring when we encounter’d.”
THE EAGLE’S EYRIE.
In the following passage, two hawking terms are used in connection with the eagle:—
“Know, the gallant monarch is in arms,
And, like an eagle o’er his aiery, towers,
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.”