Notes (54. 31—56. 9)- i39 



31. white snailes] white finells (not clearly printed). 

 55. 2. stryncUs] strings (badly). So also in 1. 4. 



16. lyttel quikens\ a little quicknes (absurdly). flokes\ flocks. '&\A flukes are 

 meant. 



Here I. R. inserts a chapter on goats, as follows. 



Chapter 20. 

 V Of Goates and their profit or vse. 



Thus hauing sufficiently debated touching the choosing, cherishini^ and curing 

 of sheep, I thinke it good a little to speake of Goates and. their vse : a kinde of 

 Cattell which albe heere in England we estimate not to his worth, yet in other 

 places they be of highest valuation : and the excellent poet Virgill in his 

 Countrey muse, draweth them and sheepe to march in one euen equipage. Thus 

 comparing them, the Goate (saith he) yeeldeth in milke three times the quantity a 

 sheepe doth, theyr yoimg ones are more plentifull, for they will haue two or three, 

 and sometimes more, and their beards yearely being shome and spunne, haue made 

 an excellent during stuffe, which for the continuance, hath made Marriners desirous 

 onely to weare it in their garments, so that though their beards cannot in quantity 

 and fineness be equall with the fleece of the sheepe, yet ioyning their milke and 

 their young ones to their beards, there is no wonderfull difierence. 



Their manner of keeping, both wintering and sommering, is in the Poets rules 

 the same that the Sheepe hath, onely theyr foulding and feed excepted : for the 

 foulding they are not needfull, and for their feede, Woods are the best, or the 

 toppes of Mountaines : bushie and thorny grounds vnprofitable for any other vse, 

 for the feede of Goates is most excellent. They will obserue custome much better 

 than Sheepe, for beeing but once or twice vsed there-vnto, they will duely euery 

 morning and euening come home, to pay theyr due debt or tribute to the milke- 

 paile. Theyr milk is excellent, and a great restoratiue, principally for a consump- 

 tion, of what nature soeuer. The fourth howre after the Sun rise, is the best time 

 for Goates to drinke in. For the weaning of young Kidds from their Dams, vse 

 the meanes that you doo with Ewes and Lambes. 



Of all Goates that are, Virgil most commends the Cinyphian Goates, bred by 

 the Towne Cinyps, as Cattell of wondrous great co///moditie : their disprofit is 

 onely amongst young springs or plants, for they wil crop any young thing that 

 groweth, and hinder the springing thereof, also they wil pill away the barke of 

 Trees, to the spoyle of the trees : yet no more then fallow Deare, or redde Deare 

 will, wherfore where the one is sufiered, the other may be tollerated. Cf. Virg. 

 Georg. iii. 306-317. 



56. 4. and fools] foales, and pigs. 



7. kye\ Kine. And so in 1. 2 above. 



9. After wel I. R. inserts— let thy Cowe be beetle-browed, and steme of looke, 

 her head and necke big, and from her throate hanging downe to her shanks a large 

 and long dew-lappe ; let her sides be proportionlesse and great, and euery part of 

 her, euen her very foote, so bigge as bigge may be. Let her eares be large and 

 hairie, and her taile long, euen to the grounde, and bushie : if she be spotted with 

 white, or shrewd or wicked with her home, it is an error, but no j&ult, for it 

 shewes mettle and goodnes ; in generall, the more bull-like a Cow is, the better 

 she is. Let thy Cowe be foure yeeres old ere she take the Bull, and at tenne 



