57. How to buy fat cattle. 53 



67. t To bye fatte cattell. . [FoI. 35-] 



If thou shalte bye fatte oxen or kye, handel them, How to bu}- 



■' •' ' fat cattle. 



and se that they be soft on the fore-croppe, behynde 

 the shulder, and vpon the hindermost rybbe, and upon 

 4 the hucbone, and the nache by the tayle. And se 

 the oxe haue a greate codde, and the cowe great 

 nauyll, for than it shulde seme that they shuld be wel 

 talowed. And take hede, where thou byeste any leane See where, 



•' •' and of 



8 cattel or fat, and of whom, and where it was bred. For ^^'^'^^ yo" 



buy. 



if thou by out of a better grou«d than thou haste thy- 

 selfe, that cattell wyll not lyke with the. And also 

 loke, that there be no maner of sycknes amonge the 

 12 cattell in that towneshyp or pasture that thou byest thy 

 catel oute of. For if there be any murren or longe 

 sought, it is great ieoperdy : for a beast maye take syck- 

 nes ten or .xii. dayes or more, ere it appere on hym. 



58. % Djruers sycnesses of cattell, and remedies 

 therfore, and fyrst of murren. 



And yf it fortune to fall murren amonge thy beastes. Murrain, 

 as god forbede, there be men ynough can helpe them. 

 And it commeth of a ranknes of bloudde, and appereth [^o'- 35*.] 



4 moste commonly fyrste in the heed ; for his heed wyll 

 swell, and his eyen waxe greate and ronne of water 

 and frothe at the mouthe, and than he is paste remedy, 

 and wyl dye shortely, and wyll neuer eate after he be 



8 sycke. Than flee him, and make a depe pytte faste bv. ^'^^ t*"^ 



-^ ^-' -" dead beast, 



there as he dyeth, and caste hym in, and couer hym with and bury it. 

 erthe, that noo dogges may come to the caryen. For as 

 many beastes as feleth the smelle of that caryen, are 



12 lykely to be enfecte; and take the skynne, and haue it 

 to the tanners to sell, and bryng it not home, for peryll 

 that may fal. And it is commonly vsed, and cometh of 

 a greate charytie, to take the bare heed of the same beaste beL't'^shead, 



16 and put vpon a longe pole, and set it in a hedge, faste thei.edge."' 



