the Morning out of the _Pen_, and let him
_Sparr_ with another _Cock_ some time to heat and chafe their Bodies,
break Fat and Glut, and fit them for Purgation; first having covered
their Spurs with Hots of Leather, to hinder their Wounding and drawing
Blood of one another.
After they have sufficiently _Sparred_, that they pant again, take them
up, and remove their Hots, and prepare them for a Diaphoretick or
Sweating Bout thus: Take _Butter_, and _Rosemary_ finely chopt, and
_White-Sugar-candy_, mixt together; and give them the quantity of a
_Wallnut_; which will scower, strengthen, and prolong Breath: Then
having (purposely) deep _Straw Baskets_, fill them half way with
_Straw_, put in your _Cock_, and cover him with _Straw_ to the top; lay
the lid close, and let him stove till the Evening. At Five a Clock take
him out, and lick his Head and Eyes with your Tongue, then Pen him, and
fill his _Trough_ with _Manchet_ (as above) and hot _Urine_.
After this, let his _Diet_ be of _Bread_ thus made: Take a _Gallon_ of
_Wheat_, and _Oat-meal-flower_, and with _Ale_, half a score _Whites_ of
_Eggs_, and _Butter_, work it into a stiff _Paste_; bake it into broad
_Cakes_, and when four dayes Old, cut it into square Bits, as abovesaid.
The second day after _Sparring_, bring your _Cock_ into a _Green Close_,
and shew him in your Arms a _Dung-hill-Cock_, then run from him, and
allure him thus to follow, suffering him now and then to strike the
_Dunghill-Cock_, and so Chase him up and down for half an Hour, till he
pants again; and thus heated, carry him home, and scower him with half a
Pound of _Fresh-Butter_, beaten with the _Leaves_ of the _Herb_ of
_Grace_, _Hysop_, and _Rosemary_, to the consistence of a _Salve_, and
give him the quantity of a _VVallnut_, then _Stove_, and _Feed_ him as
above. And thus for the first _Fortnight_, _Spar_ or _Chase_ him every
other day.
The second _Fortnight_, twice a Week will be enough to _Chase_ or _Spar_
your _Cock_: Observing, that you _Stove_ and _Scower_ him,
proportionable to his Heating.
The Third and Last _Fortnight_ (for Six Weeks is long enough) _Feed_
him as before, but do not _Spar_ him, but Chase him moderately twice,
or thrice, as before; then roll his aforesaid scowring in
_Brown-Sugar-candy_, to prevent his being Sick; rest him four dayes,
and then to the Pit.
Now, Gentlemen, _Match_ your Cock Carefully, or what you have hitherto
done, is nothing. And here Observe th
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