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As the Catte, the Icneumon the dogge, the hauke, the woulfe, the Cocodrille, and many other like.
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Also the sone of a pore man woke that hauke, and wisshed that he myghte cheve wel, and to ben happy to merchandise.
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As by the picture of an hauke swiftenes and spiede, by the shape of a crocodile
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Also the sone of a pore man woke that hauke, and wisshed that he myghte cheve wel, and to ben happy to merchandise.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For if one can flatter & bear a hauke on his fist,
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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But the boy, whose bloud could not conceale and hide the nobilitie of his birth, hauing one day sold certaine burdens and loades of woode and coale: bought with that money a faire yong hauke, which he caried vnto his father.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And quhy sae sad gang zee, O? O, I hae killed my hauke sae guid,
A Book of Old Ballads — Complete Beverley Nichols 1941
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_Florio_ (ed. 1611): 'to leape or seaze greedily upon, to souze downe as a hauke.' p. 93 _this Balatroon.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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Some hunt, some hauke, some play, while some delight
Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 1621
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As by the picture of an hauke swiftenes and spiede, by the shape of a crocodile [Transcriber's note: 'crocoiled' in original] displeasure or misfortune, by the figure of an eye, good watche or regarde, and so forthe of other.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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