Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.

Anates ferae.

Wild Ducks feed chiefly upon a green narrow-leaved grass (called therefore Ducks grass by Crescentius) which lieth upon the waters in moors, ponds, and plashes all win∣ter long: but they eat likewise the leaves, seeds, and roots of other waterplants, and also worms, spawns of fishes and frogs, young sedge, fat mud, waterspiders, and all venemous and foul things; they are no less lecherous

then Cock-Sparrows, who as by often treading, they kill themselves and live not till they be two years old, so wild Drakes by often treading kill their Hens.