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Cranes breed (as old Dr. Turner writ unto Gesner) not only in the Northern Countrys amongst the Nation of Dwarfs, but also in our English Fens. Pliny saith, that in Italy they feed much upon Grapes; but with us they feed chiefly upon corn, and fenny seeds, or bents, Theo∣dosius esteemeth them of a cold temperature; but all the Arabians judge them to be hot and dry: Certain it is that they are of themselves hard, tough, gross, sinewy, and engendring melancholique bloud, unfit for sound
mens tables (usually to be eaten of) and much more un∣meet for them that be sick; yet being young, killed with a goshawk, and hanged two or three daies by the heels, eaten with hot galentine, and drowned in Sack, it is permitted unto indifferent stomacks. In Plutarch's time Cranes were counted a dainty and good meat, fat∣ted after this manner: First, they stitched up their eyes, and fed them in the dark with wholsom mixtures of corn, milk, and seeds to make them white, tender, and plea∣sant of taste: A day before they were killed, they tem∣pered their meat with the juice of that herb, or with a good quantity of that seed whereof they would have their flesh especially to relish; were it Mints, Basil, Time, Rosemary, Commin, Coriander, Fennel-seed, or Annis-seed: Which course if we likewise observed in the cramming of Capons, and fatning of our houshold birds, without question they would taste far more deli∣cately.
Gesn. 3. de avib.
Plut. lib. de es. carn.