That bate, and beat, and will not be obedient.”
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Sc. 1.
A wild hawk was sometimes tamed by watching it night and day, to prevent its sleeping. In “An approved treatyse of Hawks and Hawking,” by Edmund Bert, Gent., which was published in London in 1619, the author says:—“I have heard of some who watched and kept their hawks awake seven nights and as many days, and then they would be wild, rammish, and disorderly.” This practice is often alluded to by Shakespeare:—
“You must be watch’d ere you be made tame, must you?”
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Sc. 2.
“I’ll watch him tame.”
Othello, Act iii. Sc. 3.
“But I will watch you from such watching now.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act iv. Sc. 4.
HABITS OF THE KITE.