Spellings are inconsistent, especially the use of ée and ee.Words remain as presented in the original, including the use ofu/v and i/j.
Note that while the title page and contents reference a “Tretise, called Goodmens Recreation”regarding angling and the fighting cocke [sic]this content was not in the original scan and thus is not included here.
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THE
Second Booke of the
English Husbandman.
CONTAYNING
the Ordering of the Kitchin-Garden, and the Planting of strange Flowers:
the breeding of all manner of Cattell. Together with the Cures, the feeding of Cattell, the Ordering both of Pastures and Meddow-ground: with the vse both of high-wood and vnder-wood.
WHEREVNTO IS ADDED
a Treatise, called Goodmens Recreation:
Contayning a Discourse of the generall Art of Fishing, with the Angle, and otherwise; and of all the hidden secrets belonging thereunto.
TOGETHER
With the Choyce, Ordering, Breeding, and Dyeting of the fighting Cocke.
A worke neuer written before by any Author.
By G. M.
LONDON: Printed by T.S. for Iohn Browne, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleetstreet. 1614.
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A Table of all the principall matters contayned in this Booke.
Chap. I.
How the Husbandman shall iudge and fore-know all kinde of weather, andother seasons of the yeere.
- Of Raine.
- Signes from clouds.
- Signes from the Moone.
- Signes from the Sun.
- Signes from Lightning.
- Signes from Fowle.
- Signes from Beasts.
- Signes from things without Motion.
- Signes of much Raine.
- Signes of Snow or Hayle.
- Signes of Winde.
- Signes of Tempests.
- Signes of faire weather.
- Signes of Winter.
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