Capons, Hennes and Chickens.
The Capon is aboue all other fowles praised: for as much as it is easily digested, and maketh little ordure, and much good nourishment. It is commodious to the breast and stomack. Hennes in winter are almost equal vnto the Capon, but they do not make so strōg nourish∣ment. Auicen sayth, if they be rosted in the belly of a Kid or Lambe, they will be the better. Chickens in summer, specially if they bee cockrels, are very conuenient for a weake stomacke, and nourisheth a little. The flesh of a Cocke is hard of digestion, but the broth wherein it is boyled, looseth the belly: & hauing soddē in it Coleworts, Polipodium, or Cartamus, it purgeth ill humours, and is medicinable against gowtes, ioynt-ach, and feuers, which come by courses.