Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie.

  • Estienne, Charles, 1504-approximately 1564.
Date:
1606
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Maison rustique, or the covntrey farme / compiled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens and John Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Svrflet ... Also a short collection of the hunting of the hart, wilde bore, hare, fox, gray, cony; of birds and faulconrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n O » f ther : but and ifyou fee them reft themfelues vpon the ground, be ye aflured that it will be raine. - If your farmebe neere vnto rnari flies and places where fnakes, Iyzardes, adders, and other fuch like beaftes abound : you may fet vpfome final! fpireetf turret about your houfe, or plant vpon fome piece of high mounted ground,fome Wei Ipred tree of a great height, for the alluring offtorkes to the (âme, that they mayhelpe to free your houfe of thofè (aide venemous beaites , for they will kill them to feede their yoong ones therewith. Bu tyet perfwade not your felfe that you can eafily draw and allure them , nor yet retaine and keepe them fummer being once palled , for vpon win¬ ters returnc they will bee packing into another, countrie. -Not- withftanding there are fome, which not hauing beene difturbed in the time of their airing and bringing vp of their yoong ones, doe euery yeere repaire to their wonted aires , and that by a long flight out of a farrecountrie, and do aire and neft themfelues willing- lie alio in the tops of high towers not frequented, asiudging the place to be fuch as will not fîiiïerany man to do them annoyance. And in the meane time you neede not take any care of their neft, lay- ing,fitting,or feeding,for they be birds careful mongh of themfelues, and not needing the helpeofany other ; and which do come and go in fuch fort as one cannot pcrceiue them : 1ft fuch fort as that we may rather fee them when they be comen, then forelee their comming, for afinuch as their comming and going is in the night.Some do.think that they hane no toong : make no account ofthem for to eate them, feeing they are of a very euilliuice, and venemous feeding : and yet this good is in them, that he which fhall haue eaten of a ftorke, fhall not haue his eies bleared or running all that yeere. It is obferued in this birde,that the yoong do feed the old that breed them,when they cannot flieany more nor get their pray. The eighteenth Chapter. . r. OfFeafants. :m IT is a point ofgreat curiofitie to keepe feafants, which Columella calleth hens of Numidia : but he that can do it, hath both pleafure and profit ; and hemuftbefuch a one as almoft doth nothing elle: ior this birde is chargeable to maintaine $ fhe will haue her houle by her felfe3 railed high and leading to theinclofure or wall of the court] and ongaIlb3 that her troughes may be in the aire., and where thefuri giüeth.And eueryleuerail birde mull haue her ownerocmc, and yet it ere mult be but one docrevnto their hen-houfefor fcheclenfing thereof.and giuing ofthem meare. The reft of their houlelhallbean open vpon the forepart,and yet in fuch fbrt as that it fhall be fare and fall,