Galli.
* 1.1 Cocks Flesh, the more old it is, the less it nourisheth; but if they be young, and kept from their Hens, and di∣eted with white bread and milk, or wheat steept in milk, they recover men out of Consumptions, and Hectick fevers: and then their stones, livers, and loyns, are of excel∣lent good nourishment: being sodden they are nothing worth, for their goodness is all in the broth: as for their flesh, it is good for nothing but to dry and bind the sto∣mack. Galen saith, that as the broth of a Hen bindeth * 1.2the body, and the flesh loosneth the same; so contrari∣wise the broth of a Cock loosneth, and the flesh bindeth. They of the game are esteemed most wholsom; called of the Romans, Medici galli, Cocks of Physick, because the Physicians most commended them: Amongst which, if I should prefer the Kentish kind for bigness and sweet∣ness, I suppose no injury to be done to any Shire of Eng∣land. Chuse the youngest (as I said) for nourishment: * 1.3for if once he be two years old, his flesh waxeth brack∣ish, tough, and hard of digestion, fitter to be sodden in broth for the loosning of the belly, then any way to be dressed for encrease of nourishment.