208
Josephus, “De Bello Judico,” iii. 5.
209
Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 33.
210
Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 378.
211
“Execration against Vulcan,” 1640, p. 37.
212
Singer’s “Notes,” 1875, vol. i. p. 283.
213
See “Archæologia,” vol. iii. p. 33.
214
Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 693. Some think that the bullfinch is meant.
215
Singer’s “Notes,” 1875, vol. v. p. 82; see Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 433.
216
Some doubt exists as to the derivation of
217
See D’Israeli’s “Curiosities of Literature,” vol. iii. p. 84.
218
See Thornbury’s “Shakespeare’s England,” vol. i. pp. 311-322.
219
Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 394.
220
Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 269.
221
Aldis Wright’s “Notes to ‘The Tempest’,” 1875, pp. 120, 121.
222
See Dyce’s “Shakespeare,” vol. i. p. 245.
223
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.
224
“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.”
225
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.
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“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.
227
Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 77; see “Twelfth Night,” ii. 5.
228
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.
229
See Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 456; Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 39; Tuberville’s “Booke of Falconrie,” 1611, p. 53.
230
Also in i. 2 we read:
“And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show’d like a rebel’s whore.”
Some read “quarry;” see “Notes to Macbeth.” Clark and Wright, p. 77. It denotes the square-headed bolt of a cross-bow; see Douce’s “Illustrations,” 1839, p. 227; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 206.
231
See Spenser’s “Fairy Queen,” book i. canto xi. l. 18:
“Low stooping with unwieldy sway.”
232
Ed. Dyce, 1857, p. 5.
233
See “3 Henry VI.” i. 1.
234
A quibble is perhaps intended between bate, the term of falconry, and abate,
“‘All plumed like estridges, that with the wind Bated, like eagles having lately bathed.’”
– Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 60.
235
“Unmann’d” was applied to a hawk not tamed.
236
See Singer’s “Notes to Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. x. p. 86; Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 448.
237
See passage in “Taming of the Shrew,” iv. 1, already referred to, p. 122.
238
Also in same play, i. 3.
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Turbervile, in his “Booke of Falconrie,” 1575, gives some curious directions as “how to seele a hawke;” we may compare similar expressions in “Antony and Cleopatra,” iii. 13; v. 2.
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Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. pp. 777, 778; cf. Beaumont and Fletcher, “Philaster,” v. 1.
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Imp, from Anglo-Saxon,
242
Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakspeare,” p. 72.
243
The reading of the folios here is stallion; but the word wing, and the falconer’s term
244
See kestrel and sparrow-hawk.
245
“Notes to Hamlet,” Clark and Wright, 1876, p. 159.
246
Ray’s “Proverbs,” 1768, p. 196.
247
Quoted in “Notes to Hamlet,” by Clark and Wright, p. 159; see Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 416.
248
That is, made by art: the creature not of nature, but of painting; cf. “Taming of the Shrew,” iv. 3; “The Tempest,” ii. 2.
249
Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 482.
250
Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 74.
251
“Notes,” vol. iii. pp. 357, 358.
252
“Description of England,” vol. i. p. 162.
253
“Glossary to Shakespeare,” p. 88.
254
Sir Thomas Browne’s “Vulgar Errors,” bk. iii. chap. 10.
255
Also to the buzzard, which see, p. 100.
256
Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. iv. p. 67.
257
“Glossary,” p. 243.
258
“Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 495; see Yarrell’s “History of British Birds,” 2d edition, vol. ii. p. 482.
259
Ray’s “Proverbs,” 1768, p. 199.
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Cf. “Midsummer-Night’s Dream” (iv. 1). “the morning lark;” “Romeo and Juliet” (iii. 5), “the lark, the herald of the morn.”
261
Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 886; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 217.
262
Chambers’s “Popular Rhymes of Scotland,” 1870, p. 192.
263
See “English Folk-Lore,” p. 81.
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Henderson’s “Folk-Lore o