Chap. 19. Of Foules in generall.
* 1.1AL Foules generally, as Isaac reporteth, are lighter and fi∣ner then the beasts that go on the earth, but they nourish lesse. And the wilde Foules are better then the tame foules, their fleash is more tender, & ••asier of digestion. The cause wherof is the lightnes and rarenes or their fleash procéeding of their often flying, and the drinesse of the ayre. But the tame Foules nourish more, and make commendable blood, and are more temperate by reason of the good temperature of their moysture and exercise. But aboue all foules these are the finest the Stare, younge Pertredges, and house chic∣kens, and next vnto them the elder Pertredge, the Feasant, the house Hen, and the Capon. Chickens are lighter of di∣gestion then other Foules, and ingender good blood. They comfort the appetite, and vnto all natures and complexions they are most agreeable, especiall the Cockrel chickens nie∣their to fat nor to leane.* 1.2 And Auerrois in the fift of his Col∣lections writeth thus: amonge Foules the Hen is principall insomutch that the broth thereof is good Medicine for those that haue the Leprosie, and some say, that a Hens Braine augmenteth the substance of a mans braine, and sharpneth the wyt.