The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour — John Shaqi
The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armourBerners, Juliana
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The boke of Saint Albans : $b containing treatises on hawking, hunting, and cote armour
Berners, Juliana
Falconry -- Early works to 1800; Heraldry -- Early works to 1800; Hunting -- Early works to 1800
¶ Ther be in woddys or in hedgis wormys calde edders that ben Redde of
nature. and he is calde veꝑa. and also ther be snakys of thessame kynde.
and they be verri bitter. Take .ij. or .iij of theym and smyte of ther
hedes and thendys of theyr taylis. Then take a new erthen pot: that was
neuer vsed. and cut hem ī to smaƚƚ gobettys. and put thossame therin.
and let hem sethe stronglich. a grete while. at good layser. and let the
pot be couered. that no ayre com owte of it ner no breth and let it
sethe so long that the saame colpons seth to grece. then cast it out and
doo a way the bonis. and geder the grece. and put it in a clene vessiƚƚ.
and as oft as ye fede yowre hawke: anoȳt her meete therin. and let hir
ete as moch as she wiƚƚ. and that meete shal mewe her at yowre awne
wiƚƚ.
¶ A nother medecẏne.
Take whete: and put it in the brothe that thedderis were sothen in. and
when ye se the whete begynnyth to cleue: take it owt and fede hennys or
chykynnes therwith. and fede yowre hawke with thessame polayn.
Who so will that an hawke mewe not nor fall noon of hir federis.
therfore here is a medecẏne
Take powder of Caneƚƚ. and the Iuce of franke cost and the Iuce of
paranye. and take morcellis of flesħ .iij. or .iiij. if ye lust and
weete them therin. and make the hawke to swalow hem and serue hir so
mony tymys.
¶ Also take the skynne of a snake or of an Edder. and cut it in to smale
peces. and temper it with hoote blode: and cause yowre hawke oftyn tyme
to fede therof and she shaƚƚ not mewe.
¶ For the gowte in the throte.
When ye se yowre hawke blaw oftyn tymes: and that it commys of no
batyng. ye may be sure she hath the gowte in the throte And for that
Take the blode of a pekoc. and Encense myrabolanana. and clawis of
gelofre. and caneƚƚ and gynger. and take of aƚƚ thes euynlich and medyƚƚ
hem with pecokkys blode and seth it tyƚƚ it be thycke. and therof make
morcellis. and yeue the hawke therof eueri day. at mydmorne and att
Noone.
For the gowte in the hede and ī the Raẏnes.
When ye se yowre hawke may not endew her meete nor remoūte her astate.
she hath the gowte in the hede and in the Raynes.
¶ Take Momyan̄ oderwise called momyn̄. among Poticaries ye may haue it.
and the skynne of an haare and yeue it to yowre hawke to eete .ix. tymes
with the flesħ of a catt. and iff she may holde that meette she shaƚƚ be
saafe.
¶ A medecẏne for a sekenes called the fallera
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