The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting. R. H. Benson
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R. H.
The Royal Pastime of Cock-fighting
The art of breeding, feeding, fighting, and curing cocks of the game
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066215750
Table of Contents
Of Cocks and Hens to Breed by.
Of the Place proper to Feed at.
Of the Place proper for the Hens to lay in, and the manner of ordering the Eggs.
How the Chickens are to be brought up.
When Cocks shou’d be Dub’d and Penn’d.
When Cocks should be set out to Walk, and where.
Of Sparring young Cocks and its use.
The method of Dieting, & feeding Game-Cocks.
When and how to Sparr your Game-Cock.
When and how to Stive your Game-Cocks.
Of the several Ways of making Cock-bread.
Of other Food used by some for Game-Cocks.
How a Game-Cock should be Fed before he Fights.
Concerning the Method of Trimming Game-Cocks.
The Methods of Matching Cocks.
Concerning the right Handling of a Cock.
How the Wounded Cocks, after Battle, should be ordered.
A Remedy for any Green Wound in Cocks.
An excellent Remedy for the Eyes.
For the Gangreens and Cankers in Cocks.
An excellent healing Remedy for Wounds.
A great Cooler for Feeding Cocks.
A Remedy for the Looseness in Cocks.
To Kill Lice in Cocks or Hens.
A POEM, IN PRAISE OF THE Fighting-Cock.
A Copy of Verses UPON TWO COCKS FIGHTING.
A Copy of Verses Writ upon a COCK-MATCH.
1. Of the Courage of a Game Cock.
And first I shall begin with Courage, which is a thing so absolutely necessary in a Cock of the Game that without it he can be nothing worth; and therefore be sure in your Election of Cocks to secure to your self such as have good Blood in their Veins, that is, such as are really and truly hard, Cocks that will carry on a Battle to the very last, and utmost extremity, against all the disadvantages imaginable, and though cut down and choaked in their own Blood, yet even then will rise and strike, or peck at least, till they expire, and die: For truly I am of opinion that these Cocks that happen to be worsted in their Fight so far as to be disabled, and put past striking, and do then stand like stocks without pecking, or making any resistance whilst their Antagonist hews them down (though they die upon the spot) yet are they nothing worth, seeing they want the true Valour, and innate Courage, which does indeed peculiarly belong to the right bred Cock, who never fails to strike, or peck whilst he has either Blood or breath left in him.
But here methinks I meet with some green Gamesters that will tell you that they can with