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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

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-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-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

you may about the middle of the day feed them in the lower grounds for two or three hours and when it draws towards Evening put them again on the higher places always observing to fold them before the Dews fall and let them be folded on dry grounds it being injurious to Sheep to be out late at night by reason of the humid Vapours which then arise 2dly If it do chance to rain a considerable part of the day then you ought to give your Sheep a little Hay at night and in the morning which is the surest Remdy against this Disease and also many others for dry Food is proper at all times for Sheep especially in wet seasons and ought to be given them once a day all the Moneths before mentioned There are likewise other sorts of Food which are admirable for this purpose viz. When the Weather is very wet and the Air humid with great Dews to give them three or four times a week either at night or morning Oates in the straw or Pease and Barley this will prove an absolute prevention of the forementioned Disease or if your Oates or other Grains be Thresht then mix some Salt with them and so give it them If this be continued and the afore-mentioned Observations followed it will certainly prevent the Rot and other Distempers for this dry Food does afford such a firm Nourishment that it dries up and consumes all superfluous Moisture in the Body Now the Rot in Sheep is a Dropsical Disease or the overflowing of gross Flegmatick Humours which in a little time spoils the Complexion that it becomes of a pale waterish Colour It also generates hard congealed matter or knobs corrupting the fountain of Blood and causeth the Body to become cold for the Bodies of all Creatures have their Original from the Watery and Earthy Qualities as the Spirits have theirs from the Element of Air But in what thing soever the Element of Water does too violently predominate there all is poysoned the Natural Heat loseth its power and proper Action and Nature is put out of her way and all the Humours and sweet Oyl or Balsamick Vertues turn sower or become of a stinking Rankness whence proceeds Melancholly and a sad heavy Spirit which is the beginning of Sorrow and end of all Pleasure which nothing will so well prevent as continual supplies of the before-mentioned Foods viz. Hay Corn in the straw or Thresht Corn mixt with a little Salt This will certainly cut off the causes of this Distemper in the bud if other circumstances mentioned before be duely observed There is another thing which will very much help to prevent the generation of this Disease the Rot in Sheep viz. to have large sheds or low wide Houses like Barns but open on all sides to house your Sheep in during wet cold Weather which is a general Rule in Flanders and when the day proves wet many times they will keep them in the House all day and give them Hay but at all times they observe not to let them out before the Sun and Elements have exhaled the moist Dews and Vapours and to house them again at Night before the said Dews and Humidity falls by this means they preserve their Sheep from the Rot whereas otherwise their Land being low their Sheep would almost every year be swept away thereby But note that these Rules and Observations must be Timed for a little Industry and small Charge may prevent the Mischief but if once your Sheep be tainted then it will be an hard matter to recover them you may possibly preserve them with a great deal of care and charge till spring but then most of them will dye Therefore be sure use these Preventive Remedies as soon as you perceive the Weather begin to require them But when there happens three or four days or a week of dry Weather then you need give them Hay but once every other day or a few Oats or other Grain either in the straw or thresht mixt with a little Salt as you see occasion I would by the permission of the Lord be he that with four or five Loads of good old Hay viz. Hay one year old and a few Oates or other Grain preserve and secure three or four Hundred Sheep from the fore-men tioned Disease in a general Rot and I would not take any other measures than what are before specified Those Sheep-masters that live in places subject to the Rot may do well to change their Sheep every two three or four years for Hill-Country Sheep which will on the change of Pasturage thrive much better and not prove so subject to Diseases for change of Pasture for Sheep and Air for Men generally proves Healthy In all Hilly poor Grounds where Sheep do work hard for their Living they do thereby become healthy strong and hardy for Nature in all Creatures does use highest diligence to Arm and defend her self against those Inconveniences hard keeping and labour bring on her But those Sheep that are bred in Rich Pastures where they have Grass in superfluity lying at ease filling their Bellies without much labour or motion like idle People who feed to superfluity and to sleep such Sheep I say are subject to many Diseases for no Creature can attain to Fatness except they have Ease and superfluity of Meat and Drink which consequently renders them full of gross Phlegmatick Humours and Juices which do in a degree deprave Nature of its innate Heat and as it were suffocate the pure natural spirits and strength and stop the Passages and contract the Vessel of the Stomach and give much flesh and little spirit and that too very impure Hence the Flesh of such Creatures that are large and bred in low Marshie grounds loaded with fatness is nothing so sweet and pleasant as that of smaller Cattel that are fed more moderately on high dry Grounds Nor will their Flesh take salt or keep so well or long nor breed so good Nurtriment more especially in the said Moneths of August September and October for then the flesh and sat not only of Sheep but all other Annimals is far more gross and fuller of flegmatick Juices than at any other times of the year and that 's the Reason it will not keep so long or take salt as at other times for where the Phlegm abounds in any flesh or fat there the pure Spirits and balsamick Vertues are weak those few that are are impure therefore such Flesh presently turns to Putrifaction the gross Juices and Humidity hindering the Salt from incorporating with it for where the spirituous part of flesh is hurt or wounded either by over-fatness and phlegmy substance or the Creature surfeited or the flesh kept too long after 't is killed c. then such flesh will not take salt nor ke●… as others do If you think this strange ask the Tallow-Chandlors whether the Tallow be not fuller of gross Phlegm in Summer than in Winter but more especially Iuly August

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

of Nature into an equal Operation as it hath in other Fruits The Iuice of Limes therefore contain two siery Qualities viz. a Saturnine churlish Fire which is of an hard Co●…gulating Nature in Operation like the raw cold Saturnine Airs of Winter which congeals the Water and hardens all things 2dly a sharp keen Martial Property of a sower harth sretting Nature and Operation And though in that Drink called Punch these Extreams are some-what allay'd or moderated by the friendly Ingredients viz. Water and Sugar which do not only render it pleasurable to the Pallate but also more tollerable to the Stomach Nevertheless it must be granted that no Extreams can be made altogether Homogeneal by any Artificial Mixtures or give Nature such ample Satisfaction as those things that are equal in their parts For the first leave the Stomach and Desire always either Craving and in want or disordered For when such improper Compositions of Mature and Immature Fruits and Unwholsom Liquors come into the Body Nature's Limbeck the Stomach quickly separates them as sometimes you may perceive after you have eaten or drank such things by the sower Belches and keen sharp matter the Stomach sends up into the Mouth as when any shall eat Pyes Tarts or other Food made of unripe Fruits tho' never so much sweetned to deceive the Pallate if one make a Meal of them he shall find those sower distasteful Belchings and also that they leave his Stomach unsatisfied The same may also be said even of Ripe Fruits when too great a number are jumbl'd together of contrary Natures There are but few that are truly sensible of the many sore Evils and Dissatisfactions improper Mixtures in Diet brings upon the Body and Mind of Man But certainly My Friends and Country-men you cannot but be sensible how freely how bountifully the Creator hath given us all those things that are truly Natural and Necessary to support Life and are they not familiar and procured with little Labour and less Hazards either to the Body or Mind But on the contrary are not all these Needless things hard to come by so that oft-times the Acquest of them tends to the Ruin of the Soul and Body And yet when all 's done the enjoyment of them gives neither Satisfaction to the one nor Health to the other but makes our Wants the greater for presently we shall want Doctors and Physick to repair those Ruins which our own Intemperances have made such improper Meats and Drinks being the original Causes of those cruel Belly-Akes and griping Pains in the Bowels Feavers Fluxes and Dropsical Diseases both here and in the West as also in the East-Indies where our English inhabit all according to the Nature of each place and as other Circumstances of Intemperances shall concur But besides Diseases there are many other Mischiefs that do attend all those places and Countries that accustom to give themselves up to Supersluity and especially to the drinking of strong Liquors for they deprave both Superiors and Inferiors and are the Nurses of perpetual Crimes Confusions and Disorders on both sides rendering the first Fierce Rash Tyrannical and unfit for Government and the latter Rude Bold Surly Inhumane and more apt to Contemn all Authority than Obey Nor is this Prohibition more sit and requisit in respect of our selves than in regard of our Neighbours so that if once we admit the common drinking of such Heady Intoxicating Liquors we may justly expect the same Inconveniences to befall us as have done New-England For the Venom of such Liquors by our fatal Example will quickly spread it self amongst the Indians and so instead of making them better or more humane and tractable by our Christian Vertues and Abllemious Conversation we shall make them Tenfold worse and teach them the g●…d Sin of Drunkenness which is the Inlet Parent and Nurse of the most Monstrous Enormities as Uncleanness Murders c For all People who have not the true Knowledge of God and his divine Principle and the Understanding of the hidden Natures of things are terrible greedy and desirous after such fierce wrathful Liquors as also after Food wherein the Blood is it being the Original of every Life which is the forbidden Fruit that man ought not to have eaten nor awakened there being searcea more evident Token of his depraved state and that the fierce wrathful Spirit does bear sway and carry the upper Dominion in mens hearts than their violent Inclinations after Blood and fierce strong Liquors which two things have a simile to and with each other and the Devilish Nature and Wrath is nourished by the use of them which is further manifested by all the Savages of the Desert as the contrary appears in Sheep and all tame humane and tractable Creatures which therefore we ●…ll Clean Beasts II. Another thing my Friends and Country men which I desire you to consider is the innumerable Evils and cruel Miseries man draws upon himself and the whole Creation is the common use of war-like destructive murthering Weapons and their Appurtenances viz. Guns Swords Powder Bullets Shot Drums and the like Devilish Instruments I may properly so call them for no doubt the invention and use of them all did originally proceed from and is still some●…ted by the fierce Wrath for as they have been always used for Destruction so indeed they can have no other use but only to awaken and encourage Wrath and Blood-shed Therefore let not our Streets the Temples of Peace and Tabernacles of Love and Innocence be encumbred with such mischievous Tools let not our pure Air be disturbed with their ungrateful Noises Clashings Ratlings and ●…ouncings nor poluted with the Sulpherous Steams they send forth as if so many Devils had marcht through the Skey and lest the stench of the Infernal Regions behind them Wherefore should we give wild Indians that do not know the use of the Messengers of Death such a bad and fatal Example as to shew a new Method how to kill one another which no doubt in process of time they will improve so far as to make War upon us and kill us with our own Weapons witness the Evils that by this very means have attended our Neighbours and the like we or our Postenity may justly expect Besides tell me I pray what Affinity there is or can be imagined between a Christian and Guns Swords Powder Shot Drums and the frightful noise of Armed Troops marching on to Manslaughter Desolation and Spoil does such Imployment of Wrath and Blood look any thing like the pure peaceable meek innocent Christian-Life which teaches to do unto all as we would be done unto and to love not only our Friends and our Neighbours but also our Enemies which assures us that those that use the Sword shall perish by the Sword that commands us if we are s●…ote on the Left Cheek to turn the Right c. Can any thing be more Opposite to all this than swaggering in Buff and Armour and boasting

they ruin their own Healths contract various Diseases never before heard of amongst them and besides put themselves to a World of needless Slavery and Toil to procure to themselves these Mischiefs And is it not a shame that it should be said and too truly that where the Christians come in new Plantations they instead of converting have often debauched the old neighbouring Indiane and Heathen-Natives and rendred many of them worse than they were before But still tell us if thou canst O Man wherefore dost thou thus degrade thy self to become a S●…tter a Tr●…pan a Snare a Plague and a Torment to all the rest of the Innocent Inhabitants of the four Worlds wherein yet thou plaguest thy self more than any of them Has not thy Creator made thee in his own Image indued th●… with divine and human Wisdom substituted thee Governor and Deputy-Lievetenant over all and bountifully enricht thee with a thousand Priviledges and Benefits which we poor inferior Graduates are denyed And hast not thou power to command by Understanding and Art the lower Animals to serve and labour for thee as to plough up and till the stubborn Ground but rendered so by thy Sin so that it becomes fruitful and brings thee forth a great number of various sorts of gallant wholsom nurtritive Seeds Grains which being wisely ordered may make variety of curious Food Art thou not endued with Strength and Art to manure cultivate and improve the Earth also by planting innumerable Fruit-Trees which will afford not only good Food but likewise several sorts of delicate and refreshing Drinks Does not that brave Creature the Cow pay thee Tribute twice a day by filling thy Pails with Nectar which of it self is a sublime Food and being altered by Care and Art makes several sorts of excellent Dishes Doth not the bounteous Earth out of her ever-Teeming Womb by Nature and the help of thy Art present thee with a vast Number of various sorts of beautiful fragrant and virtuous Plants and Herbs proper both for Food and Physick In a word has not our benificent and indulgent Creator freely accomodated thee with the Blessings of all the four Worlds which almost surpass in Number the utmost reach of humane Arithmatick Has he not appointed the Coelestials to distill continually their sweet Influences upon thee Dost thou not command the fine soft Wool of that most innocent and useful Creature the Sheep to cover the self-contracted Shame of thy Nakedness and keep thee from the Injuries of the Elements Art not thou possest of all the stately Woods and noble Trees wherein we are content to spond our selves and build our Nests but thou takest liberty to cut them down not only to supply thee with Fires but also to furnish thee with many other Conveniences both of Necessity and Ornament especially to build thee Houses therewith to secure thy self from pinching Frost and violent Rains and offensive Winds and parching Sun shine and yet tho' we are thereby disseized of our antient Freeholds and Habitations we have never been heard to murmur or repine who yet enjoy not a thousandth part of these Priviledges and Felicities We pretend not to command over any of our fellow Creatures ●…or have the use of Fire nor the benefit of Houses we wear none but our own natural Cloathings and are continually exposed to all the Injuries of the Elements neither are we endued with Arts and Sciences Crafts and Mysteries whereby to make any Advantages to our selves so that we have nothing to trust to but only the divine Hand of our Creator when he gives us a Breakfast we know not where we shall have a Dinner nor what it will be so when we Sup we know nothing of what Food or where we shall eat on the Morrow but wholly rely upon our Maker who never faileth to comfort and feed us for a few and simple mean things sufficiently serve our turns and relieve our wants and therefore we need not many our Desires never wandring beyond the necessities of Nature our Food is innocent and our Drink simple Water therefore we are not sick but live our appoint time in perfect Health Wherefore then O Man shouldst thou lie in wait to shorten our days to disturb our Repose and interrupt our Harmony by the hellish Noise of thy Guns Arms Snares and Stratagems Or why dost thou teach thine Off-spring as soon as they are able to handle a Stone to fling it at us as if we were your Enemies Are not those of our winged kind that inhabit the most sweet and sublime Element the Air more Noble than any of the inferior Creatures that grovel upon the Earth or hide themselves in the Waters And do not all men delight to hear our Melodious Consorts and Musical Notes filling the Heavens and Earth with our delightful Songs which we chaun●… forth in honour and praise to our Creator being free from Envy Strife Contention from carking Cares and Vexations all places being our Home and we go freely where we please except when entangled in thy treacherous Gins and Devices for which there is no pretence or provocation nor the least colour of Reason why thou shouldst envy our sin pl●… innocent safe seeing we cannot by our Death cont●…te any thing to thy Happiness who art al●…eady so plentifully stored with the great and gallant Priviledges and Advantages before-mentioned And O! what a brave noble wise Creature would Man be and what Honour and Glory might his Government bring unto his Creator as well as Comfort and Happiness to himself and all his fellow-Creatures if he liv'd innocently and did but as we poor Creatures do viz. answer that end for which he was made and do as he would willingly be done unto I have heard that one of the cunningest of our kind viz. a Iack Daw who like some pretended Christians loves Churches more for conveniency and shelter than Worship having made a Nest in the Steeple or some part of the House where a number of them use to meet for performing their publick exercises of Religious Worship and by means thereof often hearing a great noise below was prompted by curiosity to enquire the occasion thereof so listening attentively he heard the men there met were a reading the Commandments of God where 't is said Thou shalt do no Murder To which all the People answer'd Lord incline our hearts to keep this Law And afterwards they proceeded to read many good Prayers to God to forgive them their Trespasses Mis-deeds all their Violences and Abuse of Gods Creatures c. Which extreamly rejoyced the poor Bird to hear so he returned to his fellows and acquainted every Bird that he met with in the Airial Plains of these glad Tidings That MAN their Tormentor and v●…gilent Enemy did now repent of the Evil of his Ways and would now commit no more Murders nor Acts of Violence on the Innocent Which was receiv'd with an universal Acclamation of the Volatile Troops and now with