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Believe me, cousin Gloster,
Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,
We had had more sport.”
HAWKING TERMS.
“Flying at the brook” is synonymous with “hawking by the river,” and shows us that the party were in pursuit of water-fowl. Chaucer speaks of
“Ryding on, hawking by the river,
With grey goshawk in hand.”
“Point.”—The fluttering or hovering over the spot where the “quarry” has been “put in.”
“Pitch.”—The height to which a hawk rises before swooping.