.' (iv. 1):

"'All plumed like estridges, that with the wind
Bated, like eagles having lately bathed.'"

--Nares's "Glossary," vol. i. p. 60.

[236] "Unmann'd" was applied to a hawk not tamed.

The "jesses" were two short straps of leather or silk, which were
fastened to each leg of a hawk, to which was attached a swivel, from
which depended the leash or strap which the falconer[237] twisted round
his hand. Othello (iii. 3) says:

"Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings."

[237] See Singer's "Notes to Shakespeare," 1875, vol. x. p. 86;
Nares's "Glossary," vol. i. p. 448.

We find several allusions to the training of hawks.[238] They were
usually trained by being kept from sleep, it having been customary for
the falconers to sit up by turns and "watch" the hawk, and keep it from
sleeping, sometimes for three successive nights. Desdemona, in "Othello"
(iii. 3), says:

"my lord shall never rest;
I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;
I'll intermingle everything he does
With Cassio's suit."

[238] See passage in "Taming of the Shrew," iv. 1, already
referred to, p. 122.

So, in Cartwright's "Lady Errant" (ii. 2):

"We'll keep you as they do hawks,
Watching until you leave your wildness."

In "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (v. 5), where Page says,

"Nay, do not fly: I think we have watch'd you now,"

the allusion is, says Staunton, to this method employed to tame or
"reclaim" hawks.

Again, in "Othello" (iii. 3),[239] Iago exclaims:

"She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,
To seel her father's eyes up close as oak;"

in allusion to the practice of seeling a hawk, or sewing up her eyelids,
by running a fine thread through them, in order to make her tractable
and endure the hood of which we have already spoken.[240] King Henry ("2
Henry IV." iii. 1), in his soliloquy on sleep, says:

"Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains
In cradle of the rude imperious surge."

[239] Also in same play, i. 3.

[240] 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.

In Spenser's "Fairy Queen" (I. vii. 23), we read:

"Mine ey