The compleat gamester, or, Instructions how to play at billiards, trucks, bowls, and chess together with all manner of usual and most gentile games either on cards or dice : to which is added the arts and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting.

How to order Cocks after battel, and how to cure wounds.

THe battel being ended, immedi∣ately search your Cocks wounds, as many as you can find, suck the blood out of them, then wash them well with warm urine, and that will keep them from ranckling; after this give him a roll or two of your best scowring, and so stove him up as hot as you can for that night; in the morning, if you find his head swell'd, you must suck his wounds again, and bathe them again with warm urine, then take the pow∣der of herb Robert, and put it into a fine bag, and pounce his wounds there∣with; after this give him a good hand∣ful of bread to eat out of warm urine, and so put him into the stove again, and let him not feel the air till the swel∣ling be fallen.

If he hath received any hurt in his eye, then take a leaf or two of right ground Ivy, that which grows in little tufts in the bottom of Hedges, and hath a little rough leaf; I say, take this Ivy and chew it in your mouth, and spit the juice into the eye of the Cock, and

this will not only cure the present Ma∣lady, but prevent the growth of Films, Haws, Warts, or the like, destructive to the eye-sight.

If after you have put out your woun∣ded Cocks to their Walks, and visiting them a month or two after, if you find about their head any swollen bunches hard and blackish at one end, you may then conclude in such bunches there are unsound cores, which must be opened and crusht out with your thumbs; and after this, you must suck out the corruption, and filling the holes full of fresh Butter, you need not doubt a Cure.