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scurf, when the Cock’s Brest is all well-feathered,without any bareness or scurf: These therefore arethe most certain Rules and Observations that ever Icould stud in all my Experience,whereunto you maytrust and betake your self.

How to make the Paste which the Nightingals eat , be-ing likewise good for the Wren-, Robin-Red-Brest,Wood-L ar g, Skje-Larl^, Black^Bird, and "thro-stles, and many other Birds .

I O make this Paste for several sorts of Birds,

^ which before in several Chapters we have men-tioned, Take half a peck of your finest Horse-beansbeing very dry, and let them be ground very fine,and boulted diligently through a very fine Boulter, ■as is used for Wheaten-Meal i do so much in quan- Jtity as may be convenient for your turn, or accor-ding to your stock of Birds you keep. For Exam- .pie; Let your quantity of Meal be two pound, 'with one pound of the best Sweet-Almonds blan-ched j which afterwards must be very well beat in aMorter, rather finer than those Almonds that arebeat for March-panes» then take four ounces offresh Butter, I mean, without any Salt, which But-ter you must put in a Copper-Pan well tinned, andmix them very well together, the said Flower, andAlmonds and Butter : when you have done this,set the Pan upon a-Charcole-stre, that it may notsmell of Smoke, continually stirring of it whilst itstands upon the Fire with a Wooden Spoon, that so fit may boil by degrees, and not bum to; then takefour Yolks of Eggs, and a little Saffron ; when 1you perceive the Butter to be al) melted, then having

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