30 NATURAL HISTORY. 



they use for a restorative, is chiefly made of knuckles 

 of veal. The pulp that is within the crawfish or 

 crab, which they spice and butter, is more nourish 

 ing than the flesh of the crab or crawfish. The yolks 

 of eggs are clearly more nourishing than the whites. 

 So that it should seem, that the parts of living crea 

 tures that lie more inwards, nourish more than the 

 outward flesh ; except it be the brain : which the 

 spirits prey too much upon, to leave it any great 

 virtue of nourishing. It seemeth for the nourish 

 ing of aged men, or men in consumptions, some such 

 thing should be devised, as should be half chylus, 

 before it be put into the stomach. 



46. Take two large capons ; parboil them upon 

 a soft fire, by the space of an hour or more, till in 

 effect, all the blood is gone. Add in the decoction 

 the pill of a sweet lemon, or a good part of the pill 

 of a citron, and a little mace. Cut off the shanks, 

 and throw them away. Then with a good strong 

 chopping-knife mince the two capons, bones and all, 

 as small as ordinary minced meat ; put them into a 

 large neat boulter ; then take a kilderkin, sweet and 

 well seasoned, of four gallons of beer, of 8s. strength, 

 new as it cometh from the tunning: make in the kil 

 derkin a great bung-hole of purpose : then thrust 

 into it the boulter, in which the capons are, drawn out 

 in length ; let it steep in it three days and three nights, 

 the bung-hole open to work, then close the bung-hole, 

 and so let it continue a day and a half ; then draw it 

 into bottles, and you may drink it well after three days 

 bottling; andit will last six weeks : approved. It drink- 



