CHAP. XLVIII.
To bring vp Nightingales that are taken in March.
IT is true, that the Nightingales which are taken after the first of March vnto the middest of Aprill are very fit to keepe and bring vp.* 1.1 When therefore you haue a Nightingale of this season, you shall put her in a cage well wrapt about with paper, for feare that vpon the ••ight of any man, she should beate her selfe and crie, as also to the end that she may learne to eate alone. For to do this, you shall haue a vessell of glasse like a cuppe without a foote, wherein you shall put seuen or eight small wormes, and set them neere the bird, who seeing them craule within the glasse, will by and by for enuie at them fall of p••••king them, wherefore you shall giue her them quicke for the first time. The second time mince and cut them small: and when you see that she eateth well of such meate, you shall take of a sheepes heart well beat and cut, and mingle it with the said wormes, and making thereof as it were a paste, giue it her to ea••e. But if you perceiue, that in feeding, she chuse to eat of nothing but the wormes, leauing the heart, you shall inde∣uour your selfe to mixe it with all possible care and cunning, that so in eating she may not chuse but eate of both together, that is, both of the wormes and of the heart.