For meate, draught, and plowing, Oxen: for carriage, and
riding, horses: for gard, attendance, and pleasure, Dogs of sundrie
sorts.
What time the Shire, through want of good manurance, lay waste and
open, the Sheepe had generally [24] little bodies, and course
fleeces, so as their Wooll bare no better name, then of Cornish
hayre, and for such hath (from all auncientie) beene transported,
without paying custome. But since the grounds began to receiue
enclosure and dressing for Tillage, the nature of the soyle hath
altered to a better graine, and yeeldeth nourishment in greater
aboundance, and goodnesse, to the beastes that pasture thereupon:
So as, by this meanes (and let not the owners commendable industrie,
turne to their surcharging preiudice, least too soone they grow
wearie of well-doing) Cornish Sheepe come but little behind the
Easterne flockes, for bignes of mould, finenesse of Wooll often
breeding, speedie fatting, and price of sale, and in my conceyte
equall, if not exceede them in sweetnesse of taste, and freedome from
rottennesse and such other contagions.
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