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A63788	The country-man's companion, or, A new method of ordering horses & sheep so as to preserve them both from diseases and causalties [sic], or, to recover them if fallen ill and also to render them much more serviceable and useful to their owners, than has yet been discovered, known or practised : and particularly to preserve sheep from that monsterous, mortifying distemper, the rot / by Philotheos Physiologus, the author of The way to health, long life and happiness, &c.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3176; ESTC R23567	76,055	190

their Food there ought to be some Salt now and then mixed amongst the Granes which will dry up the moist Humours and prevent Windy and Watery Diseases or the Rot Salt being of a warming drying Quality Remember also that Stables are more than ordinary pernicious to Mares with Foal as likewise that their Colts when foaled ought to run in the Fields with their Dams until they wean themselves which will be near a Year If the before-mentioned Rules be observed your Horses will seldom want Bleeding or any kind of Drenching but if you find your Horse proves too fast on the change of Pastures or Food be the Season of the year what it will or be the occasion height of Keeping or little Work then the safest and surest Course to preserve them from Diseases and also to cool and lessen their Blood is to give them moderate Labour and with-draw or alter the quality of their Food which will digest all 〈◊〉 Matter and out off the causes of Diseases in the very bud whereas both Blood-letting Purging and most such unnatural means are for the most part done at a venture without the true or certain knowledge either of the Disease or Physical Vertue and Operation of the Medicine so that thereby many times the Malady or Disease is increased for though the common Practi●… of Physick as to men be very dangero●… and uncertain yet there is still greater uncertainty in Medicines as to cure whe●… administred to any sorts of Cattel for men are capable to judge in some degree of the Nature and Operation of Medicin●… and to express what they find in themselves of their Virtues or Vices but the dumb Beasts cannot do any of this Besides most Purging Compositions and Dr●… used for Cattel come from other Countries which are of a contrary or differe●… Nature and Operation from those of o●… own growth And since all our Cattel d●… constantly live on the Grass Herbs Seed●… Grains and Fruits that our own Country produces therefore those forreign Ingredients are more strange and disagreeing 〈◊〉 them than they are to men because Ma●… through Vanity and Custom hath enur'd himself to them by the constant or frequent eating of Outlandish Productions either entire or at least by mixing them with their other common Food Of Horses Food ONe of the best Meats or Foods for Horses is good Rick-Hay that is about half a year or three quarters old which has heat in the Mow and so cut in fresh every day out of the Rick for that is to be preferred before Hay out of the Barn or Houses and will make all Cattel thrive and prove better First because the pleasant spirituous thin vapours of the Air have their free Circulation and Influences in and about it which does powerfully penetrate all parts even to the Center of such Ricks or Stacks and keeps the pure spirituous Quality and Balsamick Virtu●… of such Hay living and causeth the said Hay to settle closer and harder together than it will in Houses therefore Rick Hay has a finer smell or scent than the other which all Horses much delight in and this proceeds from the briskness of the spirituous and balsamick Virtues for this cause if Rick-Hay be well ●…ured or made all sorts of Cattel will chuse it before others especially Sheep who have the nicest and best Pallates to distinguish All that can be alledged against this son of Hay is That there is some waste which is inconsiderable if the Season be dry and care taken as ought to be For the contrary Causes or Reasons House or Barn-Hay is not so good viz. because there the sweet influence of the Air has not so free ingre●…●…nd egress nor can the more spirituo●… parts thereof penetrate such Hay which does in a degree suffocate the Spirit thereof and therefore it will not settle so close●… for when the spirituous and balsamick Virtues of Hay are wounded or hur●… either by Suffocation or Evaporation th●… the same becomes of a light hollow substance and is of a dry Nature of litt●… heart or vertue the Spirit being the tr●… Life and moving Power of every thing and the Air is the blower up thereof which does keep the Spirit living I d●… not mean the gross Element but you a●… to understand that in this gross Elemen●… of external sensible Air there is contain●… a pleasant living spiri●…us Power which is the true Life of all things and its Ray●… do more or less penetrate all Bodies b●… if by any accident or on purpose its Influence be hindered or prevented then such things or places do presently contract great store of Humidity and such Air becomes hot thick and sulpherous whence are generated several sorts of Vermine and Insects more especially when the season is hot for Heat and Moisture are the occasion of the Generation of all such things but where the Elements have their free Influences the generation of all such Vermine is prevented as M●…ths never breed in Wollen Clothes that are daily wo●… nor Buggs in open Houses but only in close places as in Beds and when packt up in Chests where the Sun and Air are hindered from having free Influences and so there is Humidity contracted and when hot Weather comes there are generated such Creatures according to the Matter and that Quality which does predominate which if it proceed from the Animal Life then the Creature so producted is of a stinking Nature more offensive than any of those Insects or Vermin that are generated from the Vegitative Kingdom But the chief and great Food for Horses is Corn viz. Corn in the Straw which is to be preferred before Corn that is either only Thresht or both Thresht and cleansed from its Chass For all sorts of Corn when cleansed from both Straw and Chaff are too hot and gluttenating and over-heat the body and blood and obstruct the Passages whence Short-windedness and many Inconveniences proceed But on the contrary Barley Pease Fetches Beans or Oats given in the Straw are not only a firm dry strong hearty Food but the Straw of each sort of Grain eaten there-with does open and cleanse the Stomach from all Supersluities drying up the moist Vapours and keeps all the Passages and the Bowels clean and free from hard tough or sharp Humours and slimy Juices which often obstruct Nature and cause griping Pains or Plague in the Guts Also this sort of Food does resine the Blood and generate pure Spirits whence proceeds Strength Courage and Vivacity and lively sparkling bold Spirits and Dispositions and makes them drink freely which much helps to the equal distribution of the Food for this cause Oats of all sor●… of Corn are accounted the best and healthiest Food for Horses because two third parts of them are Chaff for should the Chaffie parts be separated from them a●… is done in Oat-meal and so given to Horses it would prove as hurtful as any viz. 〈◊〉 the common green Wheat and more i●… would so

stop and heat the Blood for the Flower of all sorts of Grains is gluttenating and obstructive for in the Flowerie parts does consi●…t the hot Nurtritative Quality and in the Straw Chaff and Bran is contain'd the opening cleansing and digestive Property so that there seems to be a necessity that both should be eaten together being most natural and helpful to each other The Chaffie Brannie parts of Corn and the Flowerie parts thereof may not unfitly be compared unto the Whey and Curd of Milk when separated In the Whey is contain'd the opening cleansing parts in the Curd the Nurtritative Quality the Whey being eaten is too hungry and opening to be taken as Food and the Curd alone is too hard heavy and apt to obstruct Nature and will afford but a bad Nourishment therefore both Butter and Cheese must be eaten with Bread or something that is like it or else it will prove of evil Consequence But it is to be noted that Threshed Corn of any sort is an excellent strong hearty food for Working-Horses that go at Grass especially all the Winter let them lie out a Nights and give them Corn in the Mornings before they go to work and again at Night It is very convenient that all Stable-Horses should be put to Grass from the middle of May till the latter end of Iune or until Iuly for all Cattel delight much in Grass after a long Winter besides Grass in the Spring is full of Life and Vigour of an opening cleausing Quality therefore good to purge and carry off those thick Juices and Humors which the Winter and other Inconveniences have left behind likewise the open Air and lying abroad all night does wonderfully clear and purisie the Blood dis-lodging many Impurities which the Winter and those Stables have contracted and cures the Feet and Legs of those Diseases and Maladies which hot Stables have caused for Horses naturally abounding in heat and standing in those hot steams and Vapours the same are apt to over-heat and sret the Blood especially in the Feet and Legs which occasions Putrifaction which is the principal cause of the Diseases in those parts wherewith Multitudes of Horses are more or less insested What Water is best for Horses to drink RIver-Water deservedly challenges the first place of all others and is much to be preferred before Spring or Pump-Water it being made more friendly and fat by its running through various sorts of Earth for the surface of the Earth does contain a fat saline Quality which the Water sucks into it self whereby this sort of Water becomes of a soft slippery Nature opening and cleansing far wholsomer for all Creatures to drink and performing all uses in Housewifery better and to more advantage than any other Water except Rain-Water Moreover River-Water has the benefit of the Air and sweet Influences of the Elements and Coel●…stial Bodies which do as it were purisie and open its gross earthy Body so as it becomes more spirituous and airy than either Spring or Pump-Water not so harsh and blinding The next Water in Goodness to this is Spring-Water especially such as runs near the surface of the Earth and proceeds from a good Mold as Sandy Chalky Grounds which for the most part are of a warming soft Nature Pump-Water follows which where better is to be had I cannot commend by reason of its ●…ld Saturnine Nature whereby it binds the Body and the constant use of it obstructs Nature nor is it so good for any uses in Housewifery as the former There want not some who do much applaud Pond-Water for Cattel counting it a strong warm feeding Water and indeed it is so in some sence but much inferiour to Running or Rain-Water for its constant standing without Motion does thicken and condense it and renders it of a gross fulsome Quality the thin spirituous cleansing Property thereof being as it were suffocated for want of fre●…h Supplies Motion and where these two things are wanting no water can be good For Motion cleanseth and destroys the gross thick parts thereof which advantage Pond-Water has not therefore does commonly send forth gross offensive Smells and Vapours and to Taste is dull and earthly unpleasing to the Pallate and senses which proceeds from a muddy Quality and Excrements which do happen to such Waters not having vent or motion to purge it self which all Running-Waters have And this want of motion and supplies do not only cause them to smell strong and become of a thick slimy sub●…ance but also causeth putrifaction whence are generated various sorts of V●…rmin which Running-streams are not subject to It is also to be noted that that Water that hath any manifest smell or taste more than an Aiery taste and smell is not good For good Water has no strong or manifest smell or taste or if it have 't is only a fresh pleasant Aiery Sweetness and therefore if you find any other seent or ●…usto you may be sure that such Water is defiled by Accident or else is not good in its own kind all such Waters are unhealthy either for Man or Beast to drink being of a heavy dull Nature and Operation for that pure thin spirituous Quality before mentioned which all good Water does contain is here destroy'd or suffocated and then presently the dark gross earthy Phlegmatick Nature is awakened even as it is in all other things viz. When the pure Oyl and Spirituous parts are by any Accidents wounded or destroyed the strong fulsom Natures of Saturn and Mars appear sorthwith in their malevolent Forms But so long as the Spirituous Qualities and Balsamick Vertues in any thing remain intire not violated the strong fulsom Nature lies as it were hid or unmanifested being incorporated in the Embraces of those good Vertues for the Friendly Quality does mix it self with every thing according to its Nature which is called and really is the Essential Virtue of each thing but if the good Vertue be any way destroyed or impaired by external Violence or by improper Preparations be it either in Meats or Drinks or the like then that thing becomes of little use or vertue but rather a loathing to Nature and if such things are frequently eaten or drank they prove prejudicial to Health loading Nature with Obstructions and cause dull Indispositions as daily Experience shews For these Reasons Pond-Water is not so good as that of the River and the continual drinking of such stagnated Waters will generate thick Humours and gross Blood hindering the Circulation thereof dull the Appetite and occasions many occult Diseases the rather for that such Waters are subject to various Excrements of the Cattel that frequent which cannot there as in Running-Water be purged away but proves of evil Consequence and causeth Putrifaction and Diseases But here some will object and alledge That both Horses and Cows will chuse rather to drink Pond-Water than River To which I Answer This doth often happen to be true and no wonder for

strengthens the Attractive Faculty for this cause a proportionable time of Fasting makes all the Members and whole Body light and airy But to return to our subject The more Sanguine and equal any Creatures are in their Qualities the more apt they are to be put out of tune when any affront or disorder is offered unto them for this cause Sheep cannot endure any kind of Extreams without manifest danger to their Healths they being sensible of every Inconvenience whether it be from their Keepers or from the Elements by reason of their tender Spirits and natural Heats so that every disorder wounds their Health as if they be but driven a little too hard when the Weather is hot or if they be coursed with a Dog or the like which puts them into an heat in any such case if their Keepers suffer them to lie down whilst they are yet hot and this ●…e done often it will make them break out with a Scab or Mange when they come into fresh Pasturage or about Michaelmass Also if they are Folded too close it will occasion the same Disease or if in Summer time and hot Weather the Shepherd do move them too often out of one place into another as the custom of some is who do not understand the Nature of this delicate Creature especially if it be in the heat of the day it will keep them from proving or thriving and also cause the same Distemper So likewise much wet will Rot them therefore Shepherds ought to be the most knowing and careful of all Husband-men since they are to preserve so timerous and tender a Creature whose Nature cannot endure any Inequality without danger It will be convenient that all Shepherds in dry Summers who keep their flocks in common Fallow-Fields or Downs when Grass is scarce and that they have no keeping for them but what such miserable Commons will afford should let their Sheep out of the Fold betimes in the Morning not that they naturally delight to feed early but in times of Drought and where Water is not near at hand then early in the Mornings the Air is moist and full of humid Vapours which powerfully penetrate and are suckt in through all parts by the way of the Pores which Nature has more advantage to perform when they are out of their Fold because they spread themselves into fresh open places where the Air is more humid thin and spirituous than in Folds where the Breathings and Heats that do proceed from the Sheep do make such Airs thick and hot rather suffocating heating the Blood and drying up the cool refreshing Moisture for this cause if they are pen'd close it gives them the Scab or Mange as is mentioned before You are to take notice of the Scituation of your Field or Downs and in the Morning walk or slait your Sheep gently on the highest and and driest parts or if there be Corn-fields or humid Pasturages then feed them by the edges thereof for three or four hours till they begin to be weary and the heat of the day comes on But remember that you do not use any Violence towards them for violent Motion will heat and spend their Spirits and dry up their Radical Moisture and stir or awaken the Central Poysons and Original Heat which ought not by any means to be awakened and yet the same is sooner done in them if care be not taken than in other Creatures by reason of their weak timerons Spirits and tender natural Heats But when the Sun draws near the Meridian viz. about ten or eleaven of the Clock you ought to turn them from off the edges of such Pasturages or Corn-fields into the lowest Vallies or Clayie Grounds that your Field will afford and there let them lie at large and at the greatest ease you can and as scattering as your Valley will afford till folding time which ought if the Drought be great to be late otherwise not You ought at all times to use Tenderness and gentle Behaviour to your Sheep but more especially in dry times and when the Grass is scarce for a far lesser quantity of Food will supply Nature's wants when they are still quiet and lie at ease and a less quantity of Water than when they are hurried out of one place into another for Motion especially in hot seasons and in the heat of the day does cause sweating and too great an evaporation of the Spirits whence follows faintish Indispositions that bring very ill Effects This Order all Shepherds ought to observe from the latter end of May till August if hot dry Weather continue so long and being duly follow'd will preserve your Sheep from many Inconveniences especially from breaking out with the Scabb or Mange towards Michaelmass or when they come to fresh Pasturage As for the time of Shearing of Sheep there are various opinions amongst Shepherds some will have it sooner others later but for certain the best is to unclothe them betimes viz. in the latter end of May or beginning of Iune and many of the Sheep-masters and Shepherds are of the same judgment but out of a certain Policy they will not shear them then because they should sweat in their Wool which makes it watery heavy and consequently more for advantage but that is not any part of my Work I only aim to inform you the best and most Natural way and means to preserve them sound and free from Diseases and for that purpose it cannot be denyed but that the Shearing them betimes is best especially in hot Summers for their Wool is so thick and hot as it causeth them to sweat much which evaporates the Spirits and causeth saintiness weakening the Natural Heat which hurts the digestive Faculty of the Stomach and that by degrees disables them to go through an hard summer for after shearing is commonly the hardest time for Sheep especially for all Fi●…ld-Sheep which are the subject of my present Discourse whether it be a seasonable time or not for Sheep will prove better after they are shorn than before And if the latter part of the Summer be dry and hot then there is but little Grass if wet the Sheep being newly unclothed are cold and uneasie and also hungry but the Grass is then of a gross substance and but of little Vertue it being the Declination of the Sun all things fade and decrease in Power Vertue and Strength And such Sheep as are by good Order well kept in the beginning of the year shall be far better able to go through an hard time which generally happens in the latter end of Summer viz. in Iuly August and September than those that are out of heart for want of good order and keeping even as a Cow which is well winter'd will give a far greater quantity of Milk the following Summer than one that has been hardly kept When Summers prove Wet especially when the Rains come in about Iune or Iuly then these following Rules ought to be observed whether your

Dung and Piss generates various Diseases in their Blood and also in their Feet and Legs which Horses that lie in the open Air without doors are never subject to On the contrary nothing does more preserve the true Life Strength and Health of all Creatures but more especially of Horses than the open fresh cool Air and therefore at least all Stables and places where Horses are kept ought to have many large open Windows on all sides that the hot Steams may pass away and refreshing Breezes freely enter for this Element is the true Life of every Creature the Cleanser and Purifier of all things gives vigour to the Spirits unlocks the Passages and with moist and thin spirituous Vapours comforts cools and refreshes all the parts preventing Sweating and the too great Evaporations of the Spirits causing the natural Heat to become more central which does strengthen the Stomach and digestive Faculty The chief cause and use of Stables at first was for Shelter in extream Weather as when there was much Rain and then they were built like Court-houses or Hovels covered on the top to keep them dry but open on all sides that they might in such wet Weather eat their Meat dry but were loose to run at large when they pleased which was a very Judicious and Commendable way of keeping them and I am informed this fashion is to this day observed by a Gentleman in Yorkshire who has the best breed of Horses for all strong Exercises as Hunting and the like in the whole Country Now take two Horses of equal goodness and let one of them be kept according to Custom in a close Stable and the other put into a small dry Field where there is but little Grass with a Shed in it open on the sides that he may eat this Hay and Corn dry and let the Horse in the House and the other that is in the Field be allowed the same quantity of Hay and Corn only in very cold sharp Weather and Winter time that in the Field will require more than that in the House by reason the cold pleasant Air opens the Passages drives the Natural Heat more central and so causeth a greater Appetite Now that Horse that is kept in the Field will out-do him in the House in any kind of Labour and be nothing so subject to be Tyred or be Surfeited or Broken-winded c. there being as much difference between these two as between a nice Citizen or Gentleman and an honest laborious Country Husbandman the former being warmly clothed used to close Rooms and lusty Fires and instead of rusling Trees before their Windows they barricado them with Shutters and a file or two of close drawn Curtains and get soft Feather-beds into which they sink every night almost as deep as into their Graves and an heap of Coverings able to put a Russian into a Sweat with another Guard of Curtains drawn round about their heads wrapt up in thick quilted Caps as if they were afraid their Brains would be stollen away from them so that hardly a breath of Air can get to them to which in the day time they add rich and dainty Food and strong intoxicating Drinks By all which they become altogether unapt and indeed unable to endure any kind of Labour Hardship or other Accidents without manifest danger to their Health nay let them have all the care they can with the wise Directions of their Guenny-fed Doctor to boot yet never the less they are continually afflicted with inward Stoppages Obstructions and Disorders which they call Colds and the more they do indulge themselves the more subject they become to all manner of Di●…eases But on the contrary the Country man or whoever he be that doth accuttom himself to open Airs indifferent Clothing airy Rooms simple Meats and Drinks with proper Exercises or Labour and observes other Circumstances belonging to Health as we have taught in our general Preatise of the Nature of things entituled The W●… Health long Life and Happiness c. such an one shall in all respects be healthier stronger and more able to endure Labour than the former and his Life shall be more pleasurable and delightful to him for Nature in every one is capable of being made weak feeble and tender as they shall indulge her and on the other side she becomes hardy strong and healthful if you expose her to proper Labours and Exercises in open Airs and to proper simple Food and Drink and the very same is to be understood of all other Creatures only you ought to vary your Rules and Order according to the Nature and Constitution of each It is also to be noted that such Horses as are kept in the Stable especially those that do not constantly work as Saddle-Horses and the like ought not to have Hay always lie in the Racks before them nor Provend●…r in their Mangers for the continual feeding or blowing on their Meat will dull the edge of their Appetites and flatten the Stomach and Action of the Natural Heat therefore they ought to be tyed back from their Racks for six eight or ten hours together which will give Nature and the innate heat of the Stomach time to rally and great Advantages to cleanse and digest all superfluous Juices and slimy Matter which dulls the Stomach stops the Passages hinders Digestion and the Generation of good Blood for nothing proves more profitable both to Men and Beasts than a proper time of Fasting which does as it were refine and purifie Nature makes the Blood thin and good whence proceeds pure and undefiled Spirits and brisk lively Dispositions and renders Food pleasant and delightful unto them Also it is convenient not to give any Cattel much Meat at a time but such a quantity as they may eat up clean so shall their Stomachs and Pallates be kept sharp and Spirits brisk Whereas the contrary viz. Fullness and continual Supplies of Food stupisies all the Senses and nauseates the Stomach heate the Blood making it thick which occasions impure Spirits whence do arise unnatural Heats in all the external parts of the Body with a wearisom Indisposition and shortness of Breath for this cause it comes to pass that most or all Horses that are kept in close hot Stables with Meat continually lying before them blowing on it c. are not only subject to a great number of Diseases but on hard Riding are apt to be out of Breath and Short-winded than which nothing in 〈◊〉 Horse is worse Note further that when your Horse has been rid hard or work't much you may conveniently give them a little Water about two or three hours before you give them Meat provided you suffer them not to drink too freely or to the full Also r●…bing down Horses when hot with a dry wisp of Straw is to be preferred before walking of them And as for such Horses and Cows as are kept in or near great Cities where many times Granes are a great part of

I hope you do not expect your Horses and Cows to be better Philosophers than your selves in distinguishing the Virtues and Vices of Waters for the Pallates of Cattel are adulterated by Custom even as mens are for if you accustom your self to Food that is not well prepared or Drink that hath an ill smack yet in length of time it will be so familiariz'd and so stir up and awaken its own Property in the Body that the ill smack or scent can hardly be perceived So great is the power of every particular thing to strengthen and incorporate its self with its simile in the Body whence does proceed the Possibility in Nature of making all things in a certain sort friendly unto it self Now Pond-Water is generally the warmest of all others and those Cattel that are used to it had therefore much rather drink it than other the common use of it hiding the fulsome Taste and gross earthy Smell But still there are some Ponds that are constantly fed with good Springs and others that in Rainy Seasons are plentifully supplied with Freshes and the Water of either of these is very good and wholsom I am not insensible that these Rules and Observations will seem strange and perhaps Ridiculous to the wise Iockies of this Age since contradicting their beloved Prophet Custom and Tradition whom the Multitude admire However I am satisfied in that I have by making them publick performed my Duty to my Country and so leave them not dispairing but that there may possibly be some few found of so much Ingenuity as to make Trial of them and then I doubt not but how mean uncouth or inconsiderable soever they may now seem they will acknowledge them to deserve both Thanks and Imitation CHAP. II. Of Sheep their Natures and the best way to secure them from the Rot and other Inconveniences and preserve them Healthy SHEEP area sort of Animals highly to be esteemed as well for the Excellency of their Natures wherein they transcend most other Creatures as for the manifold Benefits they afford unto Mankind The Dignity of their Nature renders them the Emblems of Innocency and fit Metaphors for Virtue Thus not only Princes by the Heathen-Sages are called Shepherds and their obedient and well govern'd Subjects their Sheep to intimate that no other species of Creatures are more inclinable to good Order or so readily governable but even in sacred W●…it the People of God are every where denominated The Sheep of his Pasture and Christ himself likens his Disciples and Followers to Sheep and calls himself The good Shepherd that layeth down his Life for his Flock And this was for the near Affinity Sheep have to Equality and to the harmless innocent Life and Principle which Christs Sheep and Lambs do live in But on the other side he compared Evil Men unto and called them by the Names of wild fierce savage ravenous Beasts as Bears Tygers Wolves c. because that sort of degenerate men do live in and are acted by the uneven fierce and cruel Nature and Principle and have therein an Affinity with the Beasts before mentioned And thus there is as perfect an Antipathy between the friendly innocent Principle which governs and rules in the Hearts of Christs People and those that are guided by his holy Peace-breathing Spirit and those other that live in the power of the fierce Wrath and uneven Nature as between Sheep and Wolves or Foxes and the like Beasts whose very sight does afright and amaze them even more than that contrariety proceeding from their Radixes Sheep being dignified as it were with a gleam of the Coelestial Principle of Unity having no manifest Quality predominating whereas on the contrary all the before-mentioned Beasts of Prey have their predominant Quality standing in the fierce Wrath as appears by their unsightly Shapes their frightful Howlings or Noises that they send forth their cruel Inclinations and bloody Dispositions To speak more plainly Sheep are in Temperature moderately Hot and Moist and in Complexion Phlegmatick-Sanguine with a mixture of Melancholy and if they exceed in any of the four Humours it is in Moisture their Radical Fires burn but gently being of a good equal Temperature whence their sweet and amicable Natures and Dispositions do arise For this cause all Inequality is an utter Enemy unto them especially excess of Moisture For they are very porous by which the moist vapours of the Air do powerfully penetrate them on all parts which causeth such Quantities of Wool and does supply them with store of Moisture which when the Air is humid or too much wet weather happeneth proves prejudicial unto them for this cause Sheep can live longer in times of Drought than many other Creatures without Water and receive less prejudice by the want thereof though all Creatures are more or less nourished by this way and do suck in their spirituous moist Nourishment like Spunges on all parts if this were not so no Creature could subsist For the attractive Quality and natural Heat do in a hidden way draw in the moist spirituous Vapours which the Element of Air does plentifully afford and the more Humid the Air is the greater Quantity of Moisture is received into the Body which Nature performs in a Magnetick Insensible way but the same does more manifestly appear when the Season is wet the Element of Air being then more imbib'd with Humidity than in drier times and therefore most or all Creatures will then live with and desire lesser Quantities of Water than when the Weather is dry though the Meat and Labour be the same This may also appear in Man If he shall live temperately in his Diet Exercises so as he do not sweat nor any other way affront Nature to put her to the Expences of too great a Transpiration then let him drink a pint or a quart in twenty four hours space which is a sufficient Quantity for such whose Labours are easie then observe that such an one shall make more Urine in quantity than he drank and if the Season be moist and the Air humid he will make near double the quantity provided he do not eat Foods that are over Salt for such do naturally heat the Body and consume the thin moist cooling Vapours which serve for the help of Concoction and do comfort and refresh Nature But on the contrary if a man shall drink two or three Gallons in a day as many do though to their shame and the Injury of their Healths especially if their Drink exceed in strength then it is to be observed that such an one will make but half or no●… half the quantity of Urine as he swallowed down Liquor And also it is to be noted that the more Temperately any shall live and the smaller the quantity of Food they eat the more Urine they will make that is proportionably to their Drink for Abstinency cools the Body opens the Pores and Passages sets the Natural Spirit at liberty and

little inferior to Angels and an Associate with God himself who endued him with both divine and human Wisdom Alas No. Leave off then O Man for shame leave off thy Pride and thy vain Glory and boast no more of thy Knowledge and Dominion and Authority for in truth thou art poor and blind and we●…k and helpless and miserably ignorant sink down therefore into Humility and cease from Cruelty first against those of thine own kind and then thou mayst come to see and abhor the Error of opp●… essing t●…y Inferiors for this is the way to retreive thine Honour and Dignity to bring back the Golden Age and that Innocent Estate which by oppression cruelty and violence thou hast lost for Mercy Innocence and Well-doing are well-pleasing to our Creator and agreeable to the noble divine Principle and attract the sweet Influence of the Coelestials so that the Merciful and the Peace-Makers and Peace-Preservers shall be filled with all good things for as Man was created after the Image of God so in him are contained the true Nature and Properties of all Elements and since God is both the Maker and Preserver of all Creatures there is no doubt but Man his Vice-Gorent here below ought to imitate his Soveraigne therein but instead thereof he sets himself to destroy not only those of his own kind but also all other Creatures so that through Sin and Vanity he is become a professed Enemy to all the Host of Heaven How many thousands of our innocent kind have been murthered by Guns Traps Snares c and many thousands both of our Males and Females have lost their loving Mates by the like Stratagems and no Pity or Compassion taken by Man on our miserable Sufferings but rather they encourage each other to our destruction and cry Hang these scurvey Birds shoot them destroy them they are good for nothing but to eat up our Corn As if God that created us had done it in vain as if he intended us not a subsistance and Food What right I pray has Man to all the Corn in the world or why should he grumble and repine if we take a few Grains to supply our Necessities whilst he squanders away such Heaps upon his Lusts Wherein I fear he has so much besotted himself and by continual Practice is become so harden'd and has so powerfully irritated the dark Wrath in himself that all our Remonstrances to him to move him to Merey and Compassion and to forbear polluting himself with the Blood of the Innocent will be but in vain and that we must still sigh and groan under his Cruelty and Tyranny which as long-run will return seven fold upon his own guilty Head The B ds Supplication OH Thou Great and Immortal Creator Cause of Causes Fountain of Beeing God of Nature Author Preserver and Upholder of this glorious Universe Parent of Angels and Men and all other Animals inhabiting the vast Deeps or the spacious Earth or the unbounded Air Thou hast given a Well-beeing and Self-Preservation unto all thy Creatures but Man whom thou hast made our Lord having east off all Affectio●… towards us disobeying thy holy Commands has plunged himself into the Fountain of fierce Wrath and therefore above all things desires and delights in Violence and Killing for nothing will satisfie the hungery Wrath but Slaughter and Blood for every thing must be maintained by its Likeness so that his Rage is now grown so active that we have no place that can secure us from his Violence but he continually pursues seeking to take away our innocent Lives The ungrateful and terrible Noise of his Guns drowns our sweet Melody the whole Air is infected with the stinking Fumes of his murthering Powder no place is free from his Ambushes Nets Glns Pitfalls and Snares so that the sight of a Man is become most dreadful and terrible unto us whereby our Lives being always in danger and fears are made grievous unto us Every Noise we hear we are afraid our fierce Hunter is near And tho' we cry and make our mournful Complaints no Mortals will hear us or take pity on us but divert themselves with our Death and laugh and sport at our Destruction So that we have no Friend no Patron on Earth to help or ●…ommiserate our miserable estate and rescue us from their Treachery and Cruelty none to fly unto but thee O holy Fountain of Light Life to whom we send our dolorous Cries and mournful Complaints for we proceeded from thee and then art the Lord our Maker preserve us thy poor Creatures in that natural Liberty and Safety wherein thou hast placed us restrain the hands of Violence inspire all that profess thy Name with the Spirit of Meakness Tenderness Mercy and Compassion both towards each other and all thy Creation that their Sworde may be turued into Pruning-Hooks their frightful Guns into Instruments of Melody and there may be no more Fighting Wounding or Killing in all thine holy Mountain Amen FINIS Advertisement THere is lately publish't by the Author of the Country Man 's Companion a Treatise entituled The Way to Health long Life and Happiness or a Discourse of Temperance and the particular Nature of all things requisit for the Life of Man Wherein is contained 1. A Description of the four grand Qualities and how every man may know his own Complexion whether Chollerick Sanguine Phlegmatick or Melancholly and what Diseases they are most subject to also what food is most agreeable to Persons of every Constitution 2. Of the excellency of Temperance and the Benefits of Abstinence and Sobriety 3. A Discourse of the several sorts of Beasts and of their Flesh in particular 4. The Proper and most Natural way of preparing viz. Boyling Roasting Baking Stewing Frying and Broyling of Flesh and other Food 5. The Seasons of the year in which most People are liable to Diseases and Mortality and the Reasons thereof and what Food is best to preserve Health at that time Shewing also the Seasons of the year in which most sorts of Flesh are unclean and apt est to contract Diseases and what times men may eat Flesh with least danger to their Health And of the Nature of Summer Fruits 6. Of Waters Ale Beer and Tobacco also of Clothing Houses and Beds and what great Benefits arise from Moderation and Temperance in those things 7. Of each particular Trade as Shop-keepers Carpenters Joyners Sea-men c. 8. Of Herbs Fruits Grains and the nature and operation of each 8. The Mischief of Variety of Meats and Drinks and the inconveniences of improper Mixtures and on the other side what Foods are fit to be compounded Of Colours and how with seven perfect Colours to imitate and represent all the Appearances and Colours in the whole Universe 10. The Reasons in Nature why Cities and great Towns are subject to the Pestilence and other Diseases more than Country Villages 11. Of Infection or Catching-Diseases and how they are transferred from one to another 12. Of Women their Natures Complexions and Intemperances c. 13. The cause of Surfeits and how to prevent them and keep the Body in Health The danger of drinking after superstuous Meals And what it is that chiefly breeds the Scurvey in the Blood Of Suppers and what sort of People may use them without prejudice to their Health 14. Of Windy Diseases the Reasons thereof and why English People especially Women are so much troubled there-with The Evils of eating drinking Food too hot And Mischief of eating and drinking between Meals Of Fatness and what sort of People are subject thereto as also how to prevent it 15. Of Bugs and from what Matter they do proceed and how to prevent their Generation 16. The Vermin-killer being several easie sure Receipts to destroy Vermin 17. A short Discourse of the Pain of the Teeth shewing from what cause it does chiefly proceed and an experienced easie way to prevent it 18. How to cure all Cuts Wounds Bruises c. without Salves Oyntments or Plaisters 19. Of Marriage and the Inconveniences of unequal Matches that they make no Harmony and the Evil consequences that follow more especially for Young Men. With several other most useful Observations too large here to be enumerated convenient for all that are Lovers of Health and Strength to observe To which is added A Treatise of most sorts of English Herbs either Physical or fit for common use shewing 1st The apt times to gather them Astrologically when the Planet that governs them is strong and well aspected the same being there calculated for 19 Years 2dly How to preserve and keep them without losing their Virtues And 3dly The best way of using them i●… Posset-Drinks Decoctions and Cordials so as not to destroy the pure spirituous of them Printed and Sold by Andr●…w Sowle at the Crooked Bil●…t in Holloway-Lane Shoreditch ☞ ☞