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 theranary-Bird. or any other }jird's-Song. 



There is your fweet Song Linnet, which 

 I.have known fold for three or four Guineas 

 a Bird ; the firft Original was taken from 

 the Sky-Lark and 1 it-Lark, and feverai 

 other Birds 



How to feed thenu 



THEY are fed with feverai Sorts of 

 Food, my Way of Feeding them is 

 with a iittlevVhite Bread foaked in Spring- 

 AVater, or any other Water •, and when you 

 have done, ftr in it out of the Water, and 

 boil it up with a little ?vlilk, to make it 

 very fliff, like unto a FJa ft y Pudding. \i 

 you have a fm.all Quantity of Birds, you 

 . inayhave'but little, becaufe it fours in two 

 Days Time, and foon erif you put Seed in. 

 I generally putSeed in, as much as v/ill F rve 

 about half a Day; take a little Rape-Seed 

 and foak it in Water about ten or twelve 

 Hours, then fcald it or boil it up •, then 

 llrain your Water from it, and take a little 

 and fqu^eze it with a Knife upon a trencher, 

 or With a Glafs- Bottle upon the Table, then 

 take 2t little and rr ix it among the Bread 

 and Pviilk; ittd. tl'em once in tv> o Hours, 

 fLcm fix in the IMorning till eight a Clock 

 atl^^' ight. When they come to feed them- 

 felves, give them a little of the fcalded 

 Rape-Seed 3 when they have led themselves 



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