Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations. : Contayning the wholesome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business. As namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock. / By G.M.

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
1654
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Credit: Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations. : Contayning the wholesome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business. As namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock. / By G.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (hilll give him to the qaamity oi a good iuadtuii at a time, and you (hall feed him three times in a day^that is to fay^ac Sun rile, at high noone, and at Sun fet. You lhall ever let him have bc- fore^im the folded, and fwectcft Spring-water that you ‘ Alter he hath been thus fed four dayes,and his Corn, Worm?, Gravel],and other courfe feeding gone from bins, in the Mora- of Sparring ing take him out of the Pen, and aiiother Cock alio, and put- ®f Cocks, ting a paire of Hots upon each of their hecics, which Hots arc {bftbumbafiedroules of Leather, covering their Spurres , fo that they cannot hurt or bruife one another, and fo fetting them down on the green grade, lit them fight and buffet one another a good rpace,as long as in their teaching they !doe not wound, or draw blood one upon anotherj ^^tl this is called the marring of Cocksdtheatethand chafeth their bodies, and it breaketh the fat and glut, which is within them, and maketh it apt to / ’cleanfc and ceme away. ^ After your Cocks have fparred fufficicntly, and that you Lee them pant and grow weary, you (hall take them up, aud ^king off their Hots you muft have deep draw baskets made for the purpofe, with fweet foft draw to the middle, and then put in your C ock, cover him with fwcet draw up to the top,and then lay on the lid clofe, and there let your Cock dove and fweat till the Evening. ^ it i « ||,;; But yet before you put him into the dove, you (hall take But- ter and R-ofemary finely chopt',' and white Sugar candy, all nfixt together, and give him a lump thereof, much as your thumbe, and then let him iwcat, for the nature ofthisdeowring ^ ^ is to bring away bis greafe, and, to bread breath and drength. You may in time of necclfity, for want of thefe draw baskets flow your Cock in a Cock-bagge, by hying draw both under and above him ,,.but it is not fo good, becaufe the Ayr® b^th ,more power tp pafTe thorow it, .Afcer'four of the clock in the Evening ,' you may take your .Cockoutofthedove, and licking his head and eyes all over with ycur tongue, put him into his Fenne, and then taking a good handfulofbread, fmall cut, put it intohis trough , and •then pilfing into the trough, aUo give it him tpearD fo as he may M2 tske