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Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation / Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet.

  • Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
Date:
1655
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Credit: Healths improvement: or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation / Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett ... Corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and fat, and then they fcarce exceed the firft degree. Ga¬ len and Rhafis write, that as their broth loofeneth, fo their flefh bindeth the belly. Lin^ria, Linnets feed chiefly upon flax feed: but for a need they eat alfo the feed of hemp and thiftles. Apodes, CMartinets ars either ftnoothor hairy legg d: for nei¬ ther of them have perfed feet,but flumps inflead of feet. Baptifta Fiera in his treatifeof Birds exclaimeth againfl them, and calleth them beggers meat: engendring mofl hot and feverous blood, fitter to be eaten as a medicin to quicken eyefight and memory, then as a wholefome or nouriftiihg meat •, but being taken when they are new fledg’d, experience warranteth them a dainty and good meat, except they be over roafled. Lttjcima, Nightingales as Martialnothing worth when their breath is departed •, for as they feed filthily in the fields upon fpiders and ants, fo their flefti is unwhole- fome at the table. Farima]0re$» Oxeys or great Titmife, feed (as ordinary Titmife do) upon caterpulers, bloflbms of Trees, bark worms and flies 5 but their flefti is unwholefome. BtthecuU. Rob'in-red’brefis feed upon bees, flies,gnats, walnuts, nuts, and crams of bread •, and are efteemed a light and good meat. Paferes. Sparrows of the houfe, feed commonly on the befl Corn. They are hot and dry almofl in the third degree? engendring hot and aguifli blood. The befl are the youngeft, fatteft^ and wildeft. Trallianus commends lean