ioned by Firmicus, _lib. 5. cap. 8._ The Greek
emperors began it, and now nothing so frequent: he is nobody that in the
season hath not a hawk on his fist. A great art, and many [3232]books
written of it. It is a wonder to hear [3233]what is related of the Turks'
officers in this behalf, how many thousand men are employed about it, how
many hawks of all sorts, how much revenues consumed on that only disport,
how much time is spent at Adrianople alone every year to that purpose. The
[3234]Persian kings hawk after butterflies with sparrows made to that use,
and stares: lesser hawks for lesser games they have, and bigger for the
rest, that they may produce their sport to all seasons. The Muscovian
emperors reclaim eagles to fly at hinds, foxes, &c., and such a one was
sent for a present to [3235]Queen Elizabeth: some reclaim ravens, castrils,
pies, &c., and man them for their pleasures.

Fowling is more troublesome, but all out as delightsome to some sorts of
men, be it with guns, lime, nets, glades, gins, strings, baits, pitfalls,
pipes, calls, stalking-horses, setting-dogs, decoy-ducks, &c., or
otherwise. Some much delight to take larks with day-nets, small birds with
chaff-nets, plovers, partridge, herons, snipe, &c. Henry the Third, king of
Castile (as Mariana the Jesuit reports of him, _lib. 3. cap. 7._) was much
affected [3236]"with catching of quails," and many gentlemen take a
singular pleasure at morning and evening to go abroad with their
quail-pipes, and will take any pains to satisfy their delight in that kind.
The [3237]Italians have gardens fitted to such use, with nets, bushes,
glades, sparing no cost or industry, and are very much affected with the
sport. Tycho Brahe, that great astronomer, in the chorography of his Isle
of Huena, and Castle of Uraniburge, puts down his nets, and manner of
catching small birds, as an ornament and a recreation, wherein he himself
was sometimes employed.

Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weels, baits,
angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as
dogs or hawks; [3238]"When they draw their fish upon the bank," saith Nic.
Henselius _Silesiographiae, cap. 3._ speaking of that extraordinary delight
his countrymen took in fishing, and in making of pools. James Dubravius,
that Moravian, in his book _de pisc._ telleth, how travelling by the
highway side in Silesia, he found a nobleman, [3239]"booted up to the
groins," wading himself