The gentlemans academie. Or, The booke of S. Albans containing three most exact and excellent bookes: the first of hawking, the second of all the proper termes of hunting, and the last of armorie: all compiled by Iuliana Barnes, in the yere from the incarnation of Christ 1486. And now reduced into a better method, by G.M.

How the Cray commeth, and the cure therefore.

The Cray commeth by giuing your hawke meat washed in hote water when you want hote meate: it commeth by means of threeds in the flesh that the hawke is fed withall, for though you picke the flesh neuer so cleane, yet you shall finde threedes therein: the cure is, take and chafe with your hands the fun∣dament of your Hawke with luke warme water a long time, & after that take the poulder of saxifrage or else the poulder of rew, and a quantitie of Maie butter, and temper it well together till they be well mingled, then put it in a little boxe and close it fast, and as often as you feed your hawke a whole meale annoint her meate a little therewith, and that shall make her loue the meate the better, because of the ointment, and it will keepe her from the Cray, and from diuerse other sickenesses which ingender in a hawke. If you take the hote heart of a swine or of a pigge and feede your Hawke therewith two dayes together it will cure her.

Also, if you take porke and dippe it in the hote milke of a cowe and feede your hawke therewith, it will helpe the cray, and make her mute cleane.

Againe, porke with the marrow of the bone of the buttocke of a swine, being giuen both together shall make her mute well and cleane.

Also, if you vse her now and then vnto fresh but∣ter, you shall finde it passing good for the cray.

Also, one meale, or two at the most, of the hote liuer of a pigge will make her mute wel, but beware you giue her not too great a gorge thereof, for it is a perillous meate.

Also, take the white of an egge, and beate it well with a spoone till it be like water, then let the meat which shall be for your hawkes supper lie in steepe therein all the day before, and at night feede her therewith, and that which shall be for her dinner in the morning, let it lie all night and if the meate that is so steeped be porke, it is much better, for so it hath beene approoued.