Black lamb and grey falcon.

She carried a hooded falcon upon her glove, and a greyhound followed closely after.

"He flew his falcon to attack The osprey, swan, and hern, And showed me, when he wished it back, The lure for its return.

So Sir Launcelot watched the falcon, and he beheld that she lit in a tall elm tree, where she took her perch and rested, balancing with her wings part spread.

He saw many falcons, and two of them pursuing the other birds; also kites, herons, daws, turtles, partridges, geese, and nightingales; and he affirmed, that in travelling six leagues they had crossed twenty-six rivers, several of which were very deep; but I am apt to believe, as the country was very woody and uneven, that they had often crossed the same river.

And Dom Manuel sent also a falcon, which returned to him with Queen Freydis' handkerchief.

"I have all the keys I want, and I'm quite sure papa would buy me a falcon if I asked him to.

[Illustration: Sir Launcelot climbs to catch the lady's falcon] Chapter Seventh How Sir Launcelot Fell Into the Greatest Peril that Ever He Encountered in all His Life.

Alonso and his soldiers would not have been able to make good their retreat, if the sailors who remained in charge of the boats had not fired off a falcon, or small piece of ordnance, on which the nayres gave over the pursuit.

Then the two lads went upward, while the serpent bandaged the eyes of his horse and of his hound, and hooded his falcon, and crept gingerly away to hide the egg in an unmentionable place.

And as he said it he killed his falcon.

" "They usually carry the keys in a basket," observed Marian; "and you forgot to mention the falcon on your wrist.

Though so alert and fleet in song, The strain was high, the race was long; And she before has never seen A monarch, save the fairy queen: But does the lure of thought obey As falcons their appointed way; Train'd to one end, and wild as those If aught they know not interpose.

He passed the falcon to a page, and continued, "What business have these men at my court?" "None, Your Grace, absolutely none," answered Max, standing proudly before the duke and steadfastly meeting his gaze.

The King presented his best falcons to the Archduke with a view to divert his mind and to turn his attention from the sad event, and one of the historians tells us that the bereaved husband was soon consoled: "The partridges, herons, wild ducks, and quails which he was enabled to take on his journey home by means of the King's present, materially lessening his sorrow.

David procured a beautiful falcon and rode off to hunt.

The mountains of this country produce the sacre falcon, the lanner, the goshawk, and the sparrowhawk, all excellent in their kind, and much used by the inhabitants in the chase, as they are all much addicted to hunting.

So he, at last, reached the falcon where it was, and he loosened the lunes from where they were entangled about the branch, and he freed the bird.

while the thought's commentary ran, unacknowledged, "Yes, as an eagle resembles a falcon!"

Beside him, on the arm of his great chair, roosted his favorite falcon, for the Prior was fond of the gentle craft of hawking.

"Seeing his embarrassment, the old man spoke to him in these words: "'What benefit is it for a youth of your abilities to be seeking a stray falcon?

It is said that Louis XI. gave orders that watch should be kept night and day to seize any falcons consigned to the Duke of Brittany from Turkey.

We watched the sheet unfolding grandly wave; Each flag around showed falcons on its face.

'So now to show bishop, and burgher, and priest, How the Altenahr hawk can die: If they smoke the old falcon out of his nest, He must take to his wings and fly.

The craggy steep Where the poor dizzy shepherd crawls with care, And clings to every twig, gives us no pain; But down we sweep, as stoops the falcon bold To pounce his prey.