elves; but let them not ramble near Puddles, or filthy Channels;
and to prevent any malady, a few Leek-blades minc'd small amongst their
Meat is good.

When they are grown so, as that their Sexes may be distinguish't, assoon
as the _Comb_ or _Wattles_ but appear, cut them away, and anoint the
Sore with sweet _Butter_, till whole. This early cutting them, is highly
necessary to prevent Flux of Blood, (which is dangerous in doing it
later) and Gouty thick Heads.

When the _Cock_, and _Hen-Chickens_, (going till now promiscuously one
with another) begin to quarrel and peck each other, part them and
separate their _Walks_: And the best for a _Fighting-Cock_, are private
and undisturbed _Walks_, as, _Wind-mills_, _Water-mills_,
_Grange-houses_, _Park-lodges_, &c. and their _Feeding-place_ on soft
Ground, or Boards; and have for his Meat, _White Corn_, or _White-bread
Tosts_, steept in _Drink_, or _Urine_, is good, both to Scowre, and Cool
them. And do not debilitate and debauch his Courage and Strength, by
having too many _Hens_ to walk with; Three _Hens_ are enough for one
_Cock_.

If before they be Six Months Old any of your _Chickens_ _Crow_ clear and
loud, and unseasonable, then to the _Pot_ or _Spit_ with them, they are
_Cowards_; the true _Cock_ is long ere he gets his Voice, and when he
has gotten it, keeps good and judicious _Time_ in Crowing.

Next observe your _Roosting-Perch_, for this makes or marrs a _Cock_;
for forming of which, consult the best _Cock-Masters_ Feeding-Pens, and
the Perches there, and accordingly proportion your own, therefore I
shall not propose any form here; Only pray take care that the ground
underneath the Perch be soft, for if the ground be rough and hard, in
leaping down he will hurt his _Feet_, and make them Gouty and Knotty.

For the _Dieting_, and _Ordering_ of your _Cock_ for _Battle_, observe
these Rules. Let your _Cock_ be full two years Old, then in the latter
end of _August_, take up and _Pen_ him, (it being now _Cocking-time_
till the end of _May_) and see that he be sound, hard-feather'd, and
full summed. As to the moving _Perch_, and _Pen_, take my foregoing
Advice.

The first four dayes after _Penning_; Feed him with the Crumb of Old
_Manchet_ cut into square bits, thrice a day, and with the Coldest, and
Sweetest Spring-water that can be had. And after you think by this time
he is throughly purged of his _Corne_, _Wormes_, _Gravel_, and other
course Feeding, take him in