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.

  • Charles Estienne
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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    t be C ountrie Farme. r ftafee themfelues, letting their Ieggeor thigh which they fhall haue broken remaine vaude and vnbounde: for nature will healeit,and make it to growe togither agame ipeedily. The fixtith Chapter. v » • ? , ^ Zhe manner how to feme ones turne of birdes >w hen he £ wottlde take einci catch thcm^ndhewe to mai^â them fwg* - Otwithftanding that all birdes except the Spinke doe fins in rW1fiî,iiSLy name .the finche> £he linnet, the liskin and other ■ SU™ r ,e: there are lome founde notwithftanding which being ° the ^e.doe giue ouer their Tinging, becaufe of the/aid mue.Vlnere.ore from the beginning of May you (hall purge them, whicn you wouide vfe for your purpofe to catch other fards withali inifZCbf Kaner 33 foll,Tth;You l]ia!I §iuc them in £he place of the nice of beetes mingled with a little pure water,and the day following von/WI fUC lf!eni “iefe 0l?tfa,d herbe-The thirde daV following you mall keep them c ofe in the houfe/etting them vpon the ground that To they may eate their meate vpon it, forthe/pace of tenue dates, withdrawing them by little and little day after day from the light in- . to fome ob/cure and darke place. And when they haue thus palled ouer ten daies,you (hall giue them home beetes againe,and Ihut them vp in ornefquareeheft inadarkeand by-place. At the eueningyou Jhaildrefie them with a lamp,fo dealing as that the fud birds may fee the lame light for the (pace of two homes,during which time you may make cleane her waterpot, changing theirmuftard feede euery eight day, and gluing them of the leaues of beetes euery fourth day and euery twentieth day of the mice thereof, efpecjally vnto thefpinke being the molt fubiecf ofalothers to becom blind. And that you may keepe them without lice, you mult change their cage euene twentie daies,as alio for an other realon, which is becaufe of the filth Si Itench / thereof,which mighteafily kill them.Thus you mult Itil beprattiling of thele courfeSjVnto the !enth of Auguft,which terme being expired5 you /bail purge them a newe in like manner as before, fuffering them by littleand halemoie freeiy to lee the lighc, vntill the twentieth of the fame monefh,takingheede that they come not in the funne:Thus they will feme you verie well to take and catch birdes withali in Sep¬ tember and October, and finally in all the reft. F The