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.