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Still further would your surprise at such a consequence have diminished if you had gone on to the falconry, and seen on the perches the goshawk and her tercel, the sparrowhawk and her musket, under the care of the ostringer; and further on the falcon-gentle, the gerfalcon, the lanner, the merlin, and the hobby, all of which were attended to by the head falconer.
"Most rustical youth," he said, "thy fortune hath prevailed over knightly skill and Audacity hath overcome Condescension, even as the kite hath sometimes hawked at and struck down the falcon-gentle. Fly and save thyself! Take my purse it is in the nether pocket of my carnation-coloured hose and is worth a clown's acceptance.
I am skilled in the uses of falcon-gentle, gerfalcon, saker, lanner, merlin, hobby, goshawk, sparrow-hawk, and musket " Brilliana interrupted him with an impetuous gesture of command, and Evander made an end of his display. "Enough, enough!" she cried. "I feel like Balkis when she came to sip wisdom from Solomon's goblet.
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