The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

Of the Cray.

THe Cray with the Cure is almost the same [ 20] with the Pantas, and proceeds from cold, but it is through ill Dyet and long feeding with cold stale Meat. The Symptoms are these: Her Mewtings will not be plentiful, nor will they come freely and with ease from her, she will drop some part thereof short and dispersed, and her body will be bound, and as it were dried up and clung. It is soon discovered, and as soon recovered, if timely taken. You must first remove the cause, [ 30] her Dyet must be high, easie of digestion, and cooling Meat, such as young Rabets, Chickens, Sheeps hearts, and the like: Also use her to your Confection of fresh sweet Butter made up with Rue, Cloves and Mace, and anoint her Meat there∣with. These things will cure the Distemper; for it openeth her Body, and cleanseth her of those indigestions and burning heats which afflict her, and which in a little time will kill her.

It were not amiss to give her with her Meat [ 40] sometimes of the distilled Water of Sorel, Wood∣bine, Horehound, and the like cooling, cleansing, and opening things.