Cap. x. [illustration]
THe Goose is a birde as great as an egle & the wilde gese flee lyke as the cranes dothe all in ordre / and li¦ke as the wynde bloweth so they flee eastwaerde. and they rest very selden excepte it be whan they do eat / & they reioyce so sore in their fleynge yt they slepe but seldē. And cōtrary that natu¦re be the tame gese for thei be heuy in fleinge gredi at their mete & diligent to theyr rest / & they crye the houres of yt night & therwith they fere ye theues In the hillis of alpis be gese as great nere hāde as an ostriche they be so he¦uy of body that they can nat flee & so¦me take them with theyr hande
The Operacion
Auicēna The gose flessh is very grose of nature in disiestion. Gose gre••e he∣leth the cleses ī the face & in the lippis that cometh of cold / also it soupleth ve¦ry well all maner of harde swellīges thorough the swetenes of it