212 ThtCompkat ForJc.Wdff, CHAP. V'l^ 



fecdeth ill a Meadow, or Pafliure, where Swans, Geefe, Ducks, 

 Turkies or other Poultry or Fowls do lye and feed : they in the" 

 Summer leafon, movvting, and mewing their Feathers, where- 

 by ihQ Horfe, grafing and feeding* in thole p-aces, may ealily I 

 and unawares eaL a Feather, which being taken into the W""*?- 

 Pifjd, will ftick m.(l there, which will fo fuifccatc him, as that 

 it will provoke him to cough fo vehemently, as if his Heart 

 Vv'ould break, for it will Itick if > fad in his J hroat or WefMicty 

 as that he can neither iwallovv it down into his Budy^ nor caft 

 it up at his Month. The cure is, 

 Kara Put the chord of your Drenching Staffinto his fffr^, and hold 



Feather, his head upon high, then takeof Verjuice or the crab one pint, 

 and two nev/ laid Egs, and beat them together, fhels and all, 

 v/ith the Verjiiice, and fo giveit him with a Horn, and fo foon 

 as he hath fwallo'wed the fame give him a few fmall branches 

 of favin, and this will carry away the feather into his pomach. 

 ^'^•^ This I have very oftentimes done, and made him well 

 again. 



SECT. 3. E. 



HippophitUs. 



Vt then what Care have you for a Hovik that hath eaten a Spi- 

 der, which I take to be much more perilous to the life of the 

 Horfe? 



HippoferHs. The figns to know this is like to that of the l^aint^ 

 but only that he will fmell much more, and this may befal 

 him rather in Winter than in Summer : for which give him 

 this drink. 



Take Urine of a man newly made one quart, of Rue, Beto- 

 •ny, Scabious, Pimpernel, Dragons, of each a like much, buj^ 

 in fucha quantity, as in the whole, all will amount but only to 

 one handful, chop thefe herbs together fmall, and let them 

 boil togethei in the Urine a little, adding thereto of Bay falt» 

 and Sallet-oyl of each one fpoonful, and fogive it him blood 

 warm. *^^ Now if it be in Winter. 



Take 



