Maison rustique, or The countrey farme· Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. The whole contents are in the page following
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Maison rustique, or The countrey farme· Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. The whole contents are in the page following
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Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip for Iohn Bill,
1616.
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Agriculture -- Early works to 1800.
Hunting -- Early works to 1800.
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"Maison rustique, or The countrey farme· Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. The whole contents are in the page following." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00419.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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CHAP. XLVII.
How Nightingales taken in the moneth of August must be fed,
as also those that are taken after they be
through growne.
SO soone as you haue taken the Nightingale in August, tie her wings pre∣sently,
that so she may not bea••e her selfe in her cage, and by this means
shee will grow tame sooner, and more easily, and withall fall to eate,
whereas otherwise she will bee hard to tame: for seeing her selfe depri∣ued
of her libertie, she becommeth not tame, till of a long time after. You shall shut
her vp in a cage couered and wrapt round with paper, not hauing any ••••icke for her
to pearch vpon at all: in the meane time haue regard to feed her fiue or sixe times eue∣ry
day, and that very handsomely: sometimes lay before her flies, or little wormes,
which by their crauling will stir vp the bird to picke them, wherefore for the first
time you shall giue her them aliue, whereas afterward you may cut and mince them:
the third time you shall begin to feed her with a sheepes heart shred small, mingling
amongst the same of the wormes afore mentioned likewise minced and knodden to∣gether,
for to accustome her to the said heart. And if you perceiue that the bird doth
not feed her ••elfe, neither yet desire or seeke after any thing but wormes, you shall
leaue off to giue her them mingled and tempered with the sheepes heart by a little
and little, and so offring her such meate as is most easie, you shall woont her to eate
of the said heart without any mixture all alone: you may do the like with the paste,
if you perceiue that she doth eate it willingly, which thing is easily discerned by any
man of iudgement.
Notes
The mann••r of the k••eping of the Nightingale taken in August