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Excerpt from The Works of Philip Massinger, Vol. 4: Containing, the Guardian, a Very Woman, the Old Law, the City Madam, and Poems on Several Occasions
Dur. It {hall be, And you give thanks for't. In the Afternoon (for we will have Variety of Delights) We'll to the Field again, no Game {hall rife But we'll be ready for't; if a Hare, my Greyhounds Shall make a Courfe for the Pyé, or Jay, a Sparhawk Flies from the Fil'r; the Crow fo near purfu'd, Shall be compell'd to feek Protection under Our Horfes Bellies a Hearn put from her Siege, And a Filiol lhot off in her Breech, ¿iall mount So high, that to your View {he'll feem to foat Above the Middle Region of the Air. A Calt of Haggard Falcons, by me man'd, Eying the Prey at firft, appear as if They did turn Tail, but with their labouring Wings Getting above her, with a Thought their Pinions Cleaving the purer Element, make in.
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