It is best I fede my hawke now.”
v. 980. vol. i. 257.
Compare Brathwait’s Merlin;
“But stow, bird, stow,
See now the game’s afoote,
And white-mail’d Nisus,
He is flying to’t.”
Odes, p. 250, appended to Natures Embassie, 1621.
“Make them come from it to your fist, eyther much or little, with calling and chirping to them, saying: Towe, Towe, or Stowe, Stowe, as Falconers vse.” Turbervile’s Booke of Falconrie, &c. p. 182. ed. 1611.