Some cut in peeces, and powdred, as Seale and Porpose.
And lastly, some boyled, and preserued fresh in Vinegar, as Tonny
and Turbet.
Besides these flooting burgesses of the Ocean, there are also
certaine flying Citizens of the ayre, which prescribe for a corrodie
therein; of whom some serue for food to vs, and some but to feed
themselues. Amongst the first sort, we reckon the Dip-chicke,
(so named of his diuiug, and littlenesse) Coots, Sanderlings,
Sea-larkes, Oxen and Kine, Seapies, Puffins, Pewets, Meawes,
Murres, Creysers, Curlewes, Teale, Wigeon, Burranets, Shags, Ducke
and Mallard, Gull, Wild-goose, Heron, Crane, and Barnacle.
These content not the stomacke, all with a like sauorinesse, but some
carrie a rancke taste, and require a former mortification: and some
are good to bee eaten while they are young, but nothing tooth-some,
as they grow elder. The Guls, Pewets, and most of the residue,
breed in little desert Ilands, bordering on both coastes, laying
their Egges on the grasse, without making any [36] nests, from whence
the owner of the land causeth the young ones to be fetched about
Whitsontide, for the first broode, and some weekes after for the
second.
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