Natural Magick. ‘Bookjt

are false; for how should Sbeeps flesh grow tender by the Wolfes breath, I under-stand it not: For other creatures that are killed by their enemies , and flesh of acontrary nature doth also grow tender, where there are no hot vapours. But {think that the absence of blood, makes the flesh tender, for these reasons. -Quailsand Pheasants killed by Hawks, are very render, but their hearts are found full ofblood , and hard within them. Deer and Bores,killed by Dogs,are more tender -but harder if by Guns: and about,the heart the parts are so hard, that they can scarcebe boiled. Fear of death drives the blood to the heart; the other parrs are blood*less, as shall appear by the following experiments. As

How Geese) Ducks, Pheasants, Quails , and other Birds become most: tender.

This Ss easily done, if we hunt them and fly Hawks, and other birdsof prey,at them.for whilst they sight, they strive to begone , and they are sometime held in theFalcons Tallents, and arc wounded with divers strokes; and this makes them sotender that it is wonderful: Wherefore, when we would eat crammed Birds , weshould purposely fly a Hawk at them, and being killed by them, should grow moretender to be desired. So

' That Ox-flefh may grow tender ,

especially of old Oxen ; for they are dry and hard, and will not easily boil. TheButchers set hounds at them, and let them prey upon them, and they will for somehours defend themselves with their horns: at last, being overcome by multitudes ofDogs, they fall with their ears torn , and bit in their skin; these brought into theshambles, and cut out, are more tender than ordinary. Some of them fightingopenly with Bears, and sometimes killd by them, if any of the body be left,it wilLbe so tender that it will melt in a mans mouth. We may do the fame, if we keepcreatures sometime in fear of death, and the longer you keep them so, the tenderthey will be. For

To make Hens tender ,

we flight them off from high Towers; so wedoTmkies, Peacocks: and when theycannot fly away by the weight of their bodies, for fear of death, with great pains andshaking of their wings, they fall down, that they may take no hurt by falling. Thosethat are so killed with fear of death , grow very tender. So old Pigeons that bychance had fallen into deep pits, when they had long laboured , struggling withtheir fluttering wings above the waters to save themselves from drowning, withstrugling and fear of death they grew very tender ; and by this accident Pre havelearned , that when we would have them very tender, we purposely drive them in.Horace in Scrm. faith almost the same.

How a Ccc\ may grow tender ,

if yon must suddenly set him before your friends , and cannot help it. If that a guestdo come by chance at night, and if the cock be tough, not fit to eat, drown’d himalive in Museadel out tight, and he will soon come to be tender meat. We use tohang up Turkies alive by the bills, at the fadle-bow, when we ride ; and these beingthus rack’t and tossed with great pains,at the journeys end you shall find them dead,and very tender.

Chap. II.

Howflesh may grow tender by secret propriety.

S Ome things there are, that by secret propriety make flesh tender. I shall recordtwo prodigious miracles of Nature. One, that hung on a fig*tree,

Cocks flesh grows tender,

and so short, th»E it is wonderful: Another, that wild Cocks bound to a fig-tree, will

grow