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least every day: You must feed him with the Sheeps-Heart and Egg shred small and fine, mingling a-mongst the same some Red Ants, and three or fourRed Earth-Worms mixed with it; ordering of himthus, for you are to take notice that no Nightingalat the first taking wil eat any Sheeps-Heart,or Paste, >or hard Egg, but live-Meat, as Worms, Ants, Ca- |terpillars, or Flies; therefore taking of him out in jyour hand, you must open his Bill with a Stick jmade thin at one end, and holding of it open, give >him a gobbet about the bigness of a Gray Pea, thenwhen he hath swallowed that, open his Bill andgive him another, till he hath had four or five suchBits; then set him some Meat mingled with storeof Ants, that when he goes to pick up the Ants,he may eat some of the Sheeps-Heart and Eggwith it, put also good store of Ants at the bottomof the Cage to keep him eating, and from beingmelancholy > at the first you may shred three orfour Meal-Worms in his Meat, the better to enticehim, that so he may therewith eat some of theSheeps-Heart by little and little j at last when youperceive him to eat,. give him the less Ants in hisMeat, and at last give him nothing but the Sheeps-Heart and Egg; if you perceive him to eat it wil-lingly, which thing is easie to be discerned of anyMan of Judgment : These Nightingals that are ta-ken at this time of the year, will mot ling till themiddle of Oftober> and then they will hold in Songtill the middle of June.