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ttlofe pigs which ate forbwcd ten daies under ot ten dales ovet the iliorteft day of the yccr.when G 

 thefiin eacreth into Capricornihave teeth immediatlyiThey ftand hghtly to the fitft brimiTiing, 

 but by reafon that they arc fubjed to caft their pigges, they had rieed to bee brimmed a fecond 

 time.Hovtfbcit the beft way to prevent that they do not flip their young, is to keep the bore from 

 them at their firft grunting and feeking after him,nor to let them be brimmed before their ears 

 hang downe3orcs are not good to brim (wine after they be three yecrs old.Sowes when they be 

 wcarie for age that they cannot ftand,take the bore lying along.That a fow fliould eat her owne 

 pigs.it is no prodigious wonder. A pig is pure & good for facrifice^five daies after it is farrowed j 

 a lambe5wheri it hath been yeaned 8 daics 5 and a calfe, being 30 daies o\<i3utCvrf}acaKm faiih, 

 That all beafts for facrifice which chew cud, arc not pure and right forthatpur^ofe, until] they 

 have teeth . Swine having loft one eyCjarenot thought to live longafter^otherwiiethey may H 

 continue untill they be fifteen yeers oldjyea and Tome to twentieiBut they grow to be wood and 

 raging otherwhiles: and befides are fubjed to many maladiesmore.and moftof all to the fqui- 

 nancie,and wen or fwelling of the kernels in the necke.Will ye know t&t a fwinc is fickc or un- 

 Ibund^pluck a briftle from the back and it will be bloodie at theroot : alio he will carrie his neck 

 atone fide as he goeth. A fow, if fheebe over- fat, fbonewantethmilke; and at her firft farrow 

 bringethfeweftpigs.AIl the kind ofthemloveth to wallow in dirtandmirc. They wrinkle their 

 tailc; wherein this alfoisobfetvedjThat they be more likely to appcale the gods in facrifice^thac 

 rather writh 6c turn their tailes to the right handjthan the left. Swine will be fat and well larded in 

 fixtie daies; and the rather, if before you begin to franke them up, they bekept alrogithcr from 

 meat three daies. Ot all other beafts, they are raoftbrutifh; inlbmuch as there gocth a pleafant I 

 byword of them, and fittcth them wellj T^^^ thir Ife is given them in flead of faUJIhis is known 

 for a truth, that when certaine theeves had ftolne and driven away a companieof them, the 

 fwineheard having followed them to the water fide (for by that time were the theeves embarged 

 with them) cried aloud unto the fwincj as his manner was .'whereupon they knowing his vojce, 

 leaned all to one fide of the veffell, turned it over, and funke it, tooke the water, and fo fwam a- 

 gaine to land unto their keepcr.Moreover,the hogges that ule to lead and goe before the heardj 

 arc Co well ttained,that they will of thcmfelves go to the fwine- market place within the citie,and 

 from thence home againe to their mafters^ without any guide to condu(51: them. The wild bores 

 in this kind, have the wit to cover their tracks with mire, and for the nones to runne over marilli 

 ground where the prints of their footing will not be leene 3 yea and to be more light in running, E 

 to void their urine firft . Sowes alfo are fplaied as well as camels^ but two daies before, they be 

 kept from meat:then hang they themby the forelegs for to make incifion into their matrice,and 

 to take forth their ftones : and by this means they will fooner grow to be fat* There is an Art alfo 

 incookerie,tomaketheliverof afow, asalfoof agoofe,moredaintie(and it was thedevife of 

 Uii.Apicms) namely ^to feed them with drie figgcs , and when they have eaten till they bee full, 

 prefently to give them mead or honyed wine to drinke, untill they die with beeingoverchargedi 

 There is not the flelli of any other living creature, that yeeldeth more ftxjre of diflies to the 

 maintenance of gluttonie,than this 5 for fiftie fundrie forts of taftcs it atfourdeth, whereas other 

 have but oneapeece. From hence came fo many edicts and proclamations publifhedby the ^ 

 Cenforsj forbidding and prohibiting CO ferveupatany feaftorfuppcr^ the belly and paps of a ^ 

 fow, the kernels about the neckejthe brizen,the ftones^the wombe,and the fore-part of the bores 

 head : and yet for all that, Publim the Poet and maker of wanton fongs, after that he was come 

 to his frecdomc,never (by report) had fuppel: without an hogges belly with the paps : who alfo 

 to that difh gave the name^and called it Summam. Moreover, the flefh of wild bores came to 

 be in greatrequeft andwasmuchfetbyjinfuchfort,asC4/<?the Cenforin his inveftive orati- 

 ons, challenged men for brawne. And yet when they made three kinds of meat of the wildborcj 

 theloinewasalwaiesfervedupinthe mids. The firft Romane thai brought to the table a whole 

 bore at once,was P,Seyviltm Rullm^ father of that Rullm^ who in the time that Octro was Con- 

 fullj publilTied the law Agraria,as touching the divifion of lands. See how little while agoe it is 

 fincc theferuperfluitiesbegan,which now are taken up fo ordinarily everieday. And yet the M 

 thing was noted and recorded in the Annales, as ftrangeand rare ^ no doubt for this intent. To 

 reprefle thcfe inordinate enormities. Oncfupper then or feaft was taxed and reprooved thereiil 

 at the beginning: but now, two and three bores ata lime arc ferved up whole and eaten toge- 



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