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A00419	Maison rustique, or The countrey farme· Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. The whole contents are in the page following; Agriculture et maison rustique. English	Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.; Liébault, Jean, ca. 1535-1596. aut; Surflet, Richard, fl. 1600-1616.; Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.	1616 (1616)	STC 10549; ESTC S121357	1,137,113	746

haue trauelled into Polonia say that the Ellend doth resemble the Asse i● nothing but in her eares as otherwise in all points almost being like 〈◊〉 the Hart hauing a clouen foot but that he is a great deale bigger and in ho●●es like vnto a Fallow-Deere Although the Asse be mocked of the most because of his long eares yet notwithstanding those eares how great soeuer they be doe serue him to shew his vertue and to make to appeare his vnderstanding and certaine knowledge which he hath of the change of the weather seeing that if it will turne to raine he then laieth them so 〈◊〉 vpon his necke that one would say they were glued to it CHAP. XXX Of the Mule-keeper A Good House-holder must not be vnfurnished of things necessarie for his House whether they serue for food and sustenance or for ease Wherefore although in respect of some manner of worke he may be content to want Mules hauing the benefit of Horse to carrie him to the Market and other ●laces whither his businesse shall call him yet notwithstanding the Mule is necessa●ie for his ●asement whether it be that he would rather ride vpon Mules than vpon Horses because of their easier pacing or that by reason of age or want of health of ●odie he cannot endure the trauell of a Horse but is constrained to prouide a Horse-litter to carrie him in I will further say that in some places as in Auernia ●hat for the scarcitie and small number of Horse and Oxen the Mules are esteemed of great value and are vsed to toile the earth to trauaile and doe other necessarie ●hings tending to the commoditie and maintenance of the House to say nothing ●hat Mules are proper Beasts strong and able to carrie great and heauie burthens as Trunkes sackes of Corne and Meale and such other burthens which Horses could ●ot beare The ordering and charge of Mules is like vnto that of Horses as well in respect of their meat pasture feeding and furniture as in the curing of their diseases whereunto they are subiect and therefore wee will knit vp in ●ewer words what may be said of them both for the causes rehearsed as also for that I willingly leaue the whole knowledge of their feeding and handling to those of Auernia amongst whom they are in such high request Notwithstanding to speake summarily the Mule-keeper must not onely be carefull of the well-feeding of his Mules but also of making of the most profit of them The profit that may be raised of them consisteth in the verie same commodities that may be raised of the Asse and that is principally of goodly Herds and Flocks Hence he shall chuse a good and goodly beautifull male Mule Asse or Horse and likewise a female Mare or she Asse for the saddle for if both of them happen not to fit the turne and be well conditioned yet that which doth cannot be but valiant and couragious And although that male and female Mules be engendred either of the male Asse and the Mare or of the Horse and female Asse yet those are the best which come of the Asse and the Mare for those which come of the Horse and the Asse though their name be according to their fire yet they resemble in conditions their dammes altogether Wherefore it is best to the end you may haue goodly and beautifull she Mules to make a Stalion of an Asse which is faire and beautifull of a good race and that hath beene well tried You must chuse one that is three yeares old and vpward great and corpulent of a strong neck strong and large ribbes of an open and musculous or fleshie breast fleshie thighes well-trus●ed legges of a blacke colour or ●lea-bitten with red tending to a bright or of a gray siluer colour or of a darke murrey colour for commonly Asses are of a Mouse colour but they which are of this haire are not so liuely and stirring as the other and if there come forth either male or female Mule wearing this liuerie they are not so good and sutable The Mare must be lesse than tenne yeares old great and faire and of good limbes to the end she may take and keepe the nature of the Asse disagreeing with her bodie and being of another kind than she her selfe and that she bestow vpon her fruit not onely the gifts of the bodie but also of spirit and liuelinesse The young stayeth in the dammes bodie twelue moneths wherefore the Mare would be couered from mid March vnto mid Iune to the end she may foale when grasse is in full force thereby to be sure to get good store of Milke She hauing brought forth her young one it must be vsed after the manner of young Colts excepted onely that after it hath sucked sixe moneths the damme can giue it sucke no longer by reason of the ach of her teats but it must be made to sucke some Mare that so it may grow more lus●ie or you must let it goe with the damme that it may learne to eat so that still it be prouided of milke to sucke The Horse-mule well chosen must be of a grosse and round bodie hauing small feet and thinne legges and drie a full and large crupper a broad and soft breast a long and compas●ed necke a drie and small head On the contrarie the Mare-Mule must haue her legges somewhat grosse and round a straight and solide bodie and a crupper hanging towards the taile The Mare-Mules are stronger mightier nimbler and longer liuers than the Horse-Mules but the Horse-Mules are more tractable and more easie to guide and learne than the Mare-Mules be Both of them are subiect to lunacie but to take this fault away you must make them drinke some wine oftentimes If they be froward and vnwilling to be sadled you may tie vp one of their fore-legges euen vnto their thighes to the end that in the meane time they may not fall backward If they be hard to shooe on the right foot behind you must 〈◊〉 vp the left before The Mare-Mule is subiect to the same diseases that the Horse as hath beene said notwithstanding there is something peculiar in them for which the remedies doe follow When she hath an Ague you must giue her raw Coleworts when she bloweth and sigheth much and hath a short wind you must let her bloud and afterward giue her to drinke three quarters of a pint of Wine with halfe an ounce of Oyle and as much Frankincense and two pints of the iuice of Horehound If shee haue the moules and scabs about her pasternes called the Grapes you must put vpon them Barly meale and open the impostume if anie thing be in it Their leanenesse and languishing is taken away by giuing them oftentimes drinkes made with halfe an ounce of Brimstone beaten a raw egge and a dramme of Myrr●e with Wine The same remedie is good for the paine of the Bellie and the

spoken of in the second Booke As much may be said of Pomegranat kernels and Bay-berries as you may vnderstand by the second Booke Pistaces doe require greater diligence and delight to be sowne as well the male as the female in a verie fat ground and vvell ●ared the backe turned to the East and this abou● the first day of Aprill and at the same time of the yeare you may gra●● them vpon themselues notwithstanding that some doe graft them vpon the almond-tree The peach stone would be set presently after that the fruit is eaten there remayning still some small quantitie of the ●lesh of the peach about the stone and for the longer lasting and keeping of it it loueth to be grafted vpon the Almond-tree CHAP. IIII. Of the nurcerie for stockes IF you vvould haue a beautifull and pleasant fruit of your trees it is not ynough that you should onely sow or set your seeds or stones in a good soyle but it standeth you as much vpon to remoue them after one yeare into another place for this translating of them doth so delight them and reuiue their vigour and spirits as that they yeeld more pleasant leaues and a 〈◊〉 ●ed and liking fruit For and if you will bestow this fauour vpon vvild 〈◊〉 you shall find them to become of a gentler nature and farre more exc●●ling 〈◊〉 Wherefore when the Trees which shall haue sprung vp of seeds or stones 〈◊〉 or sowne shall haue come by some little nourishment and grow in the seed 〈◊〉 take them vp vpon a new Moone at night with as many roots as possibly may be and if it happen that any of them be spoyled or broken cut it looke vnto it al●● that you doe not pull it vp when the Northerne wind bloweth for this wind is an enemie vnto new set plants and set them againe presently least the roots should spend themselues it must not be in a hot or cold vveather nor in an excessiue vvind nor in raine but at such time when it is calme and verie faire chusing rather a cloudie day than when the Sunne breaketh out hot and the Moone being in her 〈◊〉 but and if you should not haue the leisure to remoue them so soone or and if you would send or carrie them somewhat farre bind them vp in their owne earth mingled vvith dung and make it fast thereto with vvoollen cloth or leaues When as you take them vp marke what part standeth vpon this or that quarter to the end that you may set them downe againe vpon the same quarter and coast of the heauens for and if in remouing them you set them in a contrarie ●oyle and situation in respect of the heauens they will not thriue so vvell and that is the cause why those that buy new plants most diligently inquire in what manner of ground they stood and what aspect of the Sunne they were most open vnto that so they may set them downe againe in such like ground and in the same aspect True it is that this obser●●tion seemeth too ceremoniall vnto me and exceeding hard continually to be k●pt seeing vve buy trees at Paris sometimes to plant whose first situation we doe not know neither can vve learne and yet notwithstanding being planted they cease not to thriue and prosper And againe what cause is there of any such ceremonie seeing the Sunne vvhich is the nursing father of all plants doth visit euerie day all the sides of the Tree and that the ground wherein it is planted is no lesse nou●●shing vpon the one side than vpon the other These things weighed about the third of December you must lay flat another plot and make a furrowed quarter where you shall lodge according to the order of a hundred the small wildings which you shall haue taken vp out of the ●eed nurcerie cutting off the end and beards of all their roots and which may be in any place about their slender little stockes and that in a good ground yea much better if it be possible than that is of the seed nurcerie It is true that the furrowes must be made according to the goodnesse of the ground the nature of the tree for in a clayie or hard ground you must make your furrows the depth of three cubites in a watrie and marshie place of three feet 〈◊〉 Some plants as the Ash and Oliue tree grow better in the vpper face and top of the earth than in the depth and lower parts of the same Set in order your young ●●●dings in the said furrows halfe a foot one from another and there couer them and leaue the space of a foot betwixt one furrow and another that there you may make paths to go● about vveeding with ●ase and passe betwixt euerie two furrows When thus your wildings are set you must cut off their stockes close by the earth and fil vp the paths with dung without euer going about to hide or couer the pla●●● in the earth and so soone as they grow they must be well wed round about and 〈◊〉 from vveeds and vnderdigged or lightly digged sometimes in S●mmer round about not comming ouer neere the roo●s in any ●ase and they must be vva●●●d also on euenings when it hath beene a verie hot day and when they haue put forth ●●●ces for one or two yeares then going ouer them all leaue not moe than one 〈◊〉 to euerie plant and let it be the ●●eekest best liking tallest and com●liest of all the rest cutting the other off close by the stocke As these ●●●nces shall grow on so 〈◊〉 picke off cleane from them the small superfluous wood growing vpon them vpward and euen close also vnto the stocke and this must be done in March or Aprill and then must some small prop or stay be prickt downe at the foot of euerie wilding for to ●●rect and guide it by tying them both together with wreaths of gra●●e but 〈◊〉 mo●●e or some soft thing betwixt them that so the hardnesse of the prop may not gal it when it shall be growne thicke And thus you shall order and husband then til the time come when you must remoue them if rather you make not choice to gr●●● them vpon the place as they stand When through forgetfulnesse you shall haue 〈◊〉 your wildings or planes growne vp of feeds for two or three yeares vntaken vp 〈◊〉 must furrow them as hath already bin said but with deeper digged furrows and th●● you shall not breake the roots so much and it will be ●it and conuenient to cut off their branches vpward as occasion shall require There are found kernels of peares or garden apples that haue beene gathered 〈◊〉 trees that vvere sometimes wild ones or growne vpon trees which haue alreadie 〈◊〉 oftentimes grafted vvhich bring forth verie streight trees and also of comely wood as if they had beene grafts from the beginning not hauing any prickes or 〈◊〉 to argue them ●uer to haue beene wild Such young trees if

〈◊〉 time they haue no such force of greatnesse of bodie notwithstanding if they 〈◊〉 sowne or transplanted in the wane of the Moone and towards the later end they 〈◊〉 a great deale more strong sharpe and biting than if it were in the growth or full● the Moone Furthermore he shall cut downe his Medowes for the feeding of his Cattell when the Moone is new hee shall dung his grounds and make them fat in the encrease of the same in as much as the Moone giueth no lesse power vnto the dung to soften the Earth than it doth to Trees and Seeds to bud grow and multiplie euerie one in his place he shall water his Meadowes in the decrease of the Moone And he shall not be content to know what force and efficacie euerie quarter of the Moone hath vpon Beasts Trees Pl●nts Hearbes Fruits and other things contained in this inferior World but shall also be carefull to obserue what power euerie day of the Moone hath not onely vpon Beasts and Plants but also in the disposition and gouerning of Man to make his vse thereof in the time of necessitie and in time and place as occasion offereth following such infallible Obseruations as h●u● beene long continued and which our Fathers neuer attayned vnto and they be such In the first day of the Moone Adam was created if any man fall sick● vpon this day the sicknes●e will be long but he partie shall recouer the dreames which he dreameth in the night shall be found ioyfull the child that is borne this day shall liue long In the second day Eue was created it is good to take any Voyage vpon this day either by Sea or Land and the Traueller shall haue happie successe in all the places where he shall lodge and so●ourne This day is good for the encrease of posteritie It is likewise happie and fauourable to such as shall haue any Suits vnto Princes or other great Personages Likewise it will be good to build and set vp vpon as also to make Gardens Orchards and Parkes to till the Earth and sow it A Th●ft or Robberi● committed this day will not long be vnfound out for it cannot be concealed If any on● fall sicke he will be quickly healed If he dreame in the night time he must not respect it for it shall come to no effect The child borne vpon this day thriueth and groweth iollily In the third day Cain was borne Vpon this day no man is to enterprise any worke either in Gardening or Planting except that which he purposeth to lose who so falleth sicke shall vndergoe and beare it with great paine and griefe vnto the end but by little and little keeping good order of diet he shall recouer his health Any dreame dreamed this day or night shall come to naught likewise the child then borne shall be of long life In the fourth day Abel was borne This is a good day to begin a worke in to make Mills in and to goe vpon the Water A Fugitiue or Run-away as also a lost or strayed Beast shall be quickly found The partie falling sicke vpon his bed shall hardly escape it if the dreame he good it shall come to passe if on the contrarie it be euill it shall not come to passe the child borne this day shall pro●e a Traytor In the fifth day Lamech was borne If vpon this day any partie haue committed any thing by hap or accident and ●lye for the same he doth but lose his labour by such flight for he shall by and by be punished aliue or dead Robberie committed this day shall not be found out who so shall fall sicke vpon this day shall neuer rise againe the dreame●dreamed shall be doubtfull the child borne shall die veri● quickly In the sixt day Ebron was borne It is good vpon this day to send children to Schoole and to goe a Hunting Theft or Robberie committed this day shall b● quickly found out likewise the sicknesses which shall be taken shall be soone healed the dreames which a man shall dreame on that day are not to be disclosed th● child that shall be borne shall be of long life In the seuenth day Abel was slaine by Cain It is good on this day to let bloud foreseene that the Moone be in a fit signe into what Coast or Quarter soeuer that ● Malefactor or Theefe doth flye both he and the theft committed shall be quickly found out the sick soone healed th● dreames certaine and true good to buy Swine and to make food of all manuer of Beasts the child borne shall be of long life The eight day Methusalem was borne It is good for Trauellers the Patient taken with a disease shall languish a long time the dreames therefore shall proue true the child shall not shew any good ●ignes in the iudgemen● of Physiognomie In the ninth day Nabuchodonosor was borne This said day is indifferent th● dreames of the night come to passe incontinently the partie that shall fall sicke will escape if he die not within eight dayes and therefore shall not languish or beare it mournefully the child borne vpon this day shall be of a long life The tenth day Noe was borne All good things done this day shall prosper the dreames shall be of no effect who so vpon it shall fall into tribulation and aduersi●ie shall not need to feare for it shall not long endure likewise he that falleth sicke shall die within tenne dayes if he be not well succoured the child borne vpon this day shall trauaile many farre Coasts and Countries The eleuenth day Samuel was borne It is good to change ones house in a good and ioyfull dreame shall fall out to be true and come to passe within a few dayes the partie lying downe sicke vpon his bed shall there continue a long time and yet notwithstanding h● shall escape the child borne vpon this day shall be of a good spirit apt and forward to all good sciences and of a long life The twelfth day is very dangerous and therefore we must not doe any thing in it for vpon this day was Canaan borne who so shall fall sicke therein shall be in great danger to die within twelue dayes the dreames thereof shall be true according to their signification the child borne this day shall be altogether hypocritically enclined In the thirteenth day it will be euill to begin any worke who so falleth sicke vpon that day shall continue long languishing the dreames thereof shall be accomplished within nine dayes the child borne that day shall liue long In the four●teenth day God blessed Noe and his workes he that falleth sicke that day shall amend againe quickly the dreames thereof will be doubtfull the child borne that day will be perfect in all things The fifteenth day shall be indifferent that is to say neither good nor bad the sicke shall not die vpon his sicknesse whereinto he fell that day the dreames thereof will be certaine and accomplished within

the best of our moderne Physitians doe report but Iaques Siluius saith That the Sene which commeth out of India is not at all inferiour to it neither that which groweth in Tuscanie True it is that there is not anie of them but is passing good As for the vertnes of Sene according to the opinion of Aetuarius one of the best reputed Physitians amongst all the Grecians hee writeth That Sene is verie excellent for the purging and auoiding of choler and flegme without anie danger of disturbance vnto the bodie and spirits it also purgeth most sweetly all melancholie and adust humours being taken in the broth of a Capon it also taketh away all inueterate and old paines in the head and easeth all inward obstructions According to the opinion of Master Iohn of Damascus and excellent Arabian Physitian Sene being abstersiue and binding purgeth excellently the braine the sensitiue parts and organs of the heart from all adust and melancholie humours it also helpeth all long and tedious Feauers it also reioyceth the spirits and taketh away all sadnesse from the heart A decoction made of the leaues thereof together with Camomill strengtheneth the braine wonderfully and comforteth the sinewes being bathed therein also being taken anie way it confirmeth both the sight and hearing And if you find that the purgation be weake you may then strengthen it with mingling therewith Simples of stronger nature as Sal Gemma Sal India and such like but if you vse it for anie griefe in the stomacke then you shall mix strong cordials therewith and administer it either in the broth of Veale Chickens or Capons or anie other flesh And Serapion another Arabian Physitian writeth That Sene is excellent for those which are dull of vnderstanding for those which are subiect to frenzie or madnesse or anie decrepitnesse of bodie proceeding from inward weakenesse And to all these former opinions Iohn Fernell Iaques Siluius Manard Ferrarois and Andrew Mathiol the most excellent reputed Physitians of their times are fully and truely consenting as may be found in each of their Writings The Garden of Pleasure or Flower Garden CHAP. XLVII Of the profit pleasure situation working or tilling and disposing of your Garden of Pleasure THe most pleasant and delectable thing for recreation belonging 〈◊〉 our French Farmes is our Flower Gardens as well in respect 〈…〉 serueth for the chiefe Lord whose the inheritance is to solace 〈◊〉 therein as also in respect of their seruice for to set Bee-hiues in It is 〈◊〉 commendable and seemely thing to behold out at a window manie acres of 〈◊〉 well tilled and husbanded whether it be Medow a Plot for planting of 〈◊〉 or arable Ground as we haue stood vpon heretofore but yet it is much more to behold faire and comely Proportions handsome and pleasant Arbors and as it 〈◊〉 Closets delightfull borders of Lauender Rosemarie Boxe and other such 〈…〉 heare the rauishing musicke of an infinite number of pretie small Birds which continually day and night doe chatter and chant their proper and naturall branch 〈◊〉 vpon the Hedges and Trees of the Garden and to smell so sweet a Nose 〈…〉 neere at hand seeing that this so fragrant a smell cannot but refresh the Lord of the Farme exceedingly when going out of his bed-chamber in the morning after 〈◊〉 Sunne-rise and whiles as yet the cleare and pearle-like dew doth pearch vnto the grasse he giueth himselfe to heare the melodious musicke of the Bee● which busying themselues in gathering of the same doe also fill the ayre with a most acceptab●● sweet and pleasant harmonie besides the Borders and continued Rows of sou●raigne Thyme Balme Rosemarie Marierome Cypers Soothernwood and 〈◊〉 fragrant hearbe● the sight and view whereof cannot but giue great contentment 〈◊〉 to the beholder And in this Garden of Pleasure you are verie much to respect the forme and p●●portion of the same wherein according to the opinion of Serres and Vnie●● 〈◊〉 must be much ruled by the nature of the Soyle which albeit you may in part by your industrie and cost helpe as touching the leuelling raysing abating or 〈◊〉 of the same yet for the most part and especially touching the ayre 〈◊〉 and clyme you must be gouerned by the Soyle in which you liue Now 〈◊〉 the generall proportions of Gardens they may at your pleasure carrie anie of 〈◊〉 foure shapes that is to say either Square Round Ouall or Diamond As for that which is more long than broad or more broad than long neither of which are vncomely they are contained vnder the titles of Squares This is but the outward p●●portion or the Verge and Girdle of your Garden As for the inward 〈◊〉 and shapes of the Quarters Beds Bankes Mounts and such like they are to be di●ided by Alleyes Hedges Borders Rayles Pillars and such like and by these yo● may draw your Garden into what forme soeuer you please not respecting 〈◊〉 shape soeuer the outward Verge carrieth for you may make that Garden which 〈◊〉 square without to be round within and that which is round either square or o●●ll that which is ouall either of the former and that which is diamond anie shape 〈◊〉 all and yet all exceeding comely You may also if your ground be naturally so 〈◊〉 or if your industrie please so to bring it to passe make your Garden rise 〈◊〉 by seuerall degrees one leuell ascending aboue another in such sort as if you had diuers gardens one aboue another which is exceeding beautifull to the eie and very beneficiall to your flowers fruit-trees especially is such ascents haue the benefit of the Sun-rising vpon them and thus if you please you may haue in one leuell a square 〈◊〉 in another a round in a third a diamond and in the fourth an ouall then alongst the ascending bankes which are on either side the staires you mount into your seuerall gardens you shall make your physicke garden or places to plant your physicke hearbes vpon according as the modell is most brauely set forth by Oliuer de Serres and as the late king of France caused his physicke garden to be made in the Vniuersitie of Montpellier being all raised vpon bankes or heights one aboue another 〈◊〉 round some square in the manner of a goodly large and well trimmed Theatre as may be seene at this day to the great admiration thereof The Garden of Pleasure as hath beene said must be cast and contriued close to the one side of the Kitchin Garden but yet so as that they be sundred by the intercourse of a great large alley as also a hedge of quickset hauing three doores whose ground must be of a like goodnesse and vouchsafed the like labour tilling and husbanding that the Kitchin Garden hath bestowed vpon it and as the Kitchin Garden is to be compassed and set about with Lattise worke and young common bordering stuffe to be made vp afterward and continued into arbours or as it were into small chappells or oratories