Although the duck otherwise notably deceives both the dog and the master by diving under the water, and also by natural subtlty, for if any man shall approach the place where they build, breed, and sit, the hens go out of their nexts, offering themselves voluntarily to the hands, as it were, of such as draw near their nests. And a certain weakness of their wings pretended, and infirmity of their feet dissembled, they go slowly and so leisurely, that to a man's thinking it were no mastery to take them. By what deceitful trick they do, as it were, enrise and allure men to follow them, until they be drawn a long distance from their nests, which being compassed by their provident cunning, or cunning providence, they cut off all inconveniences which might grow out of their return, by using many careful and curious caveats, lest their often hunting betray the place where the young ducklings be hatched. Great therefore is their desire, and earnest is their study to take heed, not only to their brood but also to themselves. English archers were famous for accuracy with the long bow, and frequent practice was mandatory, to the point that it modified skeletal development, as we know particularly from remains in Mary Rose which sank 19 July 1545.
Waterfowl seem a tiny target for either weapon.
Caius describes ducks lying up in close cover. This is particularly true of mallards in moult. Thinking something must have been wrong with the duck, she put it in the garbage. Inevitably, this event made more complex ways of putting ducks on the table seem over-equipped. Truffles are solid, fleshy, globular, range in size from marbles to softballs, grow in bunches of from 10-20, about a foot underground.