fting _Dame Juliana_ from her horse!
Happy deception! dear fiction! says Florizel--while he throws his eyes
in an opposite direction, and views every printed book upon the
subject, from _Barnes_ to _Thornton_.

[Footnote 460: Some superficial notes, accompanied by an
interesting wood-cut of a man carrying hawks for sale, in my
edition of Robinson's translation of _More's Utopia_,
kindled, in the breast of Mr. Joseph Haslewood, a prodigious
ardour to pursue the subjects above-mentioned to their
farthest possible limits. Not Eolus himself excited greater
commotion in the Mediterranean waves than did my
bibliomaniacal friend in agitating the black-letter
ocean--'a sedibus imis'--for the discovering of every volume
which had been published upon these delectable pursuits.
Accordingly there appeared in due time--'[post] magni
procedere menses'--some very ingenious and elaborate
disquisitions upon Hunting and Hawking and Fishing, in the
ninth and tenth volumes of _The Censura Literaria_; which,
with such additions as his enlarged experience has
subsequently obtained, might be thought an interesting work
if reprinted in a duodecimo volume. But Mr. Haslewood's
mind, as was to be expected, could not rest satisfied with
what he considered as mere _nuclei_ productions:
accordingly, it became clothed with larger wings, and
meditated a bolder flight; and after soaring in a
_hawk_-like manner, to mark the object of its prey, it
pounced upon the book of _Hawking, Hunting, Fishing, &c._,
which had been reprinted by W. de Worde, from the original
edition published in the abbey of St. Albans. Prefixed to
the republication of this curious volume, the reader will
discover a great deal of laborious and successful research
connected with the book and its author. And yet I question
whether, in the midst of all the wood-cuts with which it
abounds, there be found any thing more suitable to the 'high
and mounting spirit' (see Braithwait's amusing discourse
upon Hawking, in his _English Gentleman_, p. 200-1.) of the
editor's taste, than the ensuing representation of a pilgrim
Hawker?!--taken from one of the frontispieces of _L'Acadamia
Peregrina del Doni_; 1552, 4to., fol. 73.

[Illustration]

We will conclude this _Hawking_ note with the following
excer