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A15503	The commendation of cockes, and cock-fighting VVherein is shewed, that cocke-fighting was before the comming of Christ.	Wilson, George, fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 25768; ESTC S111808	15,587	32

nor to Hawkes for mans commoditie profit and delectable pleasure but rather lesse chargeable and ten times more comfortable Surely we haue speciall cause both to be mightily addicted to them and also to make exceeding much of them Chapter III. THe Apostle Saint Peter with a vaine ostentation boasting of his owne strength told our Sauiour Christ in the Gospel that though all men forsooke him yet he would not leaue him but rather die with him so proud was hée of his faith and so prodigall of his loue But Christ who as he saith himselfe knew what was in man and to how many infirmities fraile flesh is subiect said vnto him this night before the Cocke crow thou shalt denie me thrise and as he said it came to passe for before the cocke crew he both denied him and foresware him saying he knew not the man but so soone as the Cocke did crow it came immediatly into his mind what his master had said and then instantly as the text sayth he went out and wept betterly Thus you may sée it verified out of our Sauiours owne mouth that the crowing of Cockes was seriously noted and duely obserued in his time and also that the voice of the Cocke was by Christs institution ordained like the voice of a Preacher to call Peter to repentance and to induce him to powre forth teares out of his eyes to pacifie the wrath of God for his haynous offence .. What an vnspeakable comfort was that Cocke vnto Noah which in the time of the deluge suruiued with him in the Arke whose shril-tongued farre resounding voice when he crowed was heard by all the people in the world at one instant And what an incomparable comfort are Cockes continually vnto vs for in all Countreys they are the Farmers clocks who duely and truely declare vnto them how the night passeth and when the day light appeareth and for this cause did the Swath-rutters make great account of Cockes for when they were enticed and procured to come into England in the cōmotion time their wiues came with them and brought their Cockes at their backes which manifested an intire affection that they bare vnto them when they choose rather to bring them with them than any other thing which they enioyed if you read the Chronicles you shall finde this to be most true But what néede I to recite or alleage any circumstance of such antiquitie for approbation of my argument when we our selues by dayly experience cannot choose but see and perceiue what excéeding great comfort and consolation all men haue or may haue by them I remember that in my young time I being in bed with an Vncle of mine a learned Minister and a zealous Professor of the word of God how that after midnight the Cocke crowed whereat my Vncle awaked and told me that the voice of the Cocke did put him in mind of the passion of our Sauiour Christ and then instantly hee fell to most earnest praying Likewise a man of good worship credibly informed me that hée knew a Gentleman that had many good Cockes of the game which he loued maruailously well and wherein he tooke great felicitie and delight all his life time and at the last falling into a gréeuous sicknesse and lying vpon his death-bed he requested his kinred and friends which were about him to place his Cockes with their Coopes so néere vnto his beds head as possibly they could doe which being performed according to his request he heard them crowe whereat he sayd now haue I obtained that which I desired for these delectable voices shal be my swéete-sounding trumpets to admonish and put me in minde of my immortall and celestiall Iudge before whome all flesh must appeare to receiue recompence according to their demerits whether they be good or euill Also our late Prince of famous memorie King Henrie the Eight did take such pleasure and wonderfull delight in the Cocks of the game that he caused a most sumptuous and stately Cock-pit to be erected in West-minster wherein his Maiestie might disport himselfe with Cocke-fighting among his most noble and louing subiects who in like manner did affect that pastime so well and conceiued so good an opinion of it not onely because the King was so addicted to it but also in regard of the great valor and incomparable courage that the Cockes shewed in their battels the which did inflame their hearts that they caused Cocke-pits to be made in many Citties Boroughes and Townes throughout the whole Realme To which Cocke-pits resorted both Dukes Earles Lords Knights Gentlemen and Yeomen there to recreate and delight themselues with Cocke-fighting Now this is to be noted that in this pleasant exercise there is no collusion deceit fraude or cozening tollerated nor any vsed as in most other games and pastimes customarily there is neither is there any brawlings or quarrels suffered in those places but all men must there vse ciuile and good behauiour what degrée or calling soeuer he be of And also it is there decréed vpon and set downe as an irreuocable order that no man by cursing banning or swearing shall blaspheme God or take his name in vaine but that all of them shall speake modestly and deale according to truth and whosoeuer shall discent from it or do otherwise than is appointed must vndergoe the punishmēt prescribed by the Nobilitie aforesaid which lawes then instituted ordayned are yet to be séen extant both in Suffolke and Norffolke and I hope wil still remaine and continue to the end of the world which good obseruation hath induced many to keepe Cockes of the game and I doubt not but that in time it will incite a number more both to bréede them and bring them vp to the intent that they may haue sport with them to content and delight themselues for this is most certaine that if euer any thing in the world were delectable and pleasant to the heart of man and did beget in him any mirthfull ●●●●sance and consolation it was and is the excellent sport of Cocke fighting as Themistocles hath sufficiently declared And this propertie or hidden misterie it hath in it that whosoeuer doth affect it or as diuers good men are be much addicted to it and then afterwards either of his owne accord or by any other mans instigation or perswasion doe neglect it and refraine it let him expect and looke for no other thing but alwayes to be melancholy sad and disconsolate and desirous to wander alone euer musing on the worst things and not of the best but rather imagining euill than good And this I know by experience prooued by many men of good account to their hinderance and griefe and to my excéeding great sorrow and therefore I would admonish aduise and counsell all men that take delight and pleasure in that delicious and pleasant pastime neuer to forsake or leaue it or to alienate themselues from it so long as it shall please the almightie to blesse and prosper them