t/idt are not worthy of it, yet appear as fuch itt 

 . v he Eye of thole, who have not Judgment to 

 ^liftinguiih rightly betwixt a true Game-Cock 

 #nd the many different Sorts that in Reality are 

 not fo ; my Defign therefore fliall be, to de- 

 fcribe fuch as are worthy, which confift of 

 three different Sorts, the firft of which I 

 call, the AElive and Ready Fighting Cock, the 

 fecond I term, the Bull-dog Kind, and the third 

 the Artful Fighting Cock; when Fowl are equal- 

 ly fed and of equal Goodnefs, what is it that 

 muft give Succefs but fuperior Activity and 

 Truth of Fighting ; and I have often obferv'd, 

 when Men of Judgment come into a Pit where 

 they are entire Strangers to Fowl, they bet their 

 Money according to the Behaviour of them in 

 Fighting, and when fome think it Odds on one 

 Side, 'tis Six to Four in their Opinion, on the 

 contrary. 



This Firft Sort, which I call the ready 

 fighting Cock, if they are in pcrfed: Con- 

 dition, have the Ad vantage of any other, for by 

 breaking in upon a Cock in that furious Man- 

 ner, it fruftrates the Defign of the Adverfary 

 tho' ever Ib well intended, which if purfu'd, as 

 any Cock of Mettle will do, muft beat the beft 

 flow Cock that can be bred, becauie we daily 

 fee, that a Blow is a Battle given at the Begin- 

 ning ; but if this Sort are not: in good Condition, 

 they are much the worft of the three, their faft 

 Fighting then will be of no Service to them, 

 but rather occafion them to tire, and let a flow 

 Cock knock them down at the laft. I have 



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