his
walks daily.

_Of nourishing and fatting Herns, Puets, Gulls, and Bitterns._

Herns are nourished for two causes, either for Noblemens sports, to
make trains for the entering their hawks, or else to furnish the
table at great feasts; the manner of bringing them up with the least
charge, is to take them out of their nests before they can flie, and
put them into a large high barn, where there is many high cross
beams for them to pearch on; then to have on the flour divers square
boards with rings in them, and between every board which should be
two yards square, to place round shallow tubs full of water, then to
the boards you shall tye great gobbits of dogs flesh, cut from the
bones, according to the number which you feed, and be sure to keep
the house sweet, and shift the water often, only the house must be
made so, that it may rain in now and then, in which the hern will
take much delight; but if you feed her for the dish, then you shall
feed them with livers, and the entrals of beasts, and such like cut
in great gobbits.

_To feed Codwits, Knots, Gray-Plovers, or Curlews._

Take fine chilter-wheat, and give them water thrice a day, morning,
noon, and night; which will be very effectual; but if you intend to
have them extraordinary crammed fowl, then you shall take the finest
drest wheat-meal, and mixing it with milk, make it into paste, and
ever as you knead it, sprinkle into the grains of small
chilter-wheat, till the paste be fully mixt therewith; then make
little small crams thereof, and dipping them in water, give to every
fowl according to his bigness, and let his gorge be well filled: do
thus as oft as you shall find their gorges empty, and in one
fortnight they will be fed beyond measure, and with these crams you
may feed any fowl of what kind or nature soever.

_Otherways._

Feed them with good wheat and water, give them thrice a day,
morning, noon, and night; if you will have them very fat & crammed
fowl, take fine wheat meal & mix it with milk, & make it into paste,
and as you knead it, put in some corns of wheat sprinkled in amongst
the paste till the paste be fully mixt therewith; then make little
small crams thereof, and dipping them in water, give to every fowl
according to his bigness, and that his gorge be well filled: do thus
as oft as you shall find their gorges empty, and in one fortnight
they will be fed very fat; with these crams you may feed any fowl of
what kind or natu