[220] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 394.
[221] Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 269.
[222] Aldis Wright’s “Notes to ‘The Tempest’,” 1875, pp. 120, 121.
[223] See Dyce’s “Shakespeare,” vol. i. p. 245.
[224] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 60-97, and “Book of Days,” 1863, vol. ii. pp. 211-213; Smith’s “Festivals, Games, and Amusements,” 1831, p. 174.
[225] “A hawk full-fed was untractable, and refused the lure—the lure being a thing stuffed to look like the game the hawk was to pursue; its lure was to tempt him back after he had flown.”
[226] In the same play (iv. 2) Hortensio describes Bianca as “this proud disdainful haggard.” See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 197; Cotgrave’s “French and English Dictionary,” sub. “Hagard;” and Latham’s “Falconry,” etc., 1658.
[227] “To whistle off,” or dismiss by a whistle; a hawk seems to have been usually sent off in this way against the wind when sent in pursuit of prey.
[228] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 77; see “Twelfth Night,” ii. 5.
[229] The use of the word is not quite the same here, because the voyage was Hamlet’s “proper game,” which he abandons. “Notes to Hamlet,” Clark and Wright, 1876, p. 205.