Robert Howlett
Published: 2017-09-17
Total Pages: 130
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Excerpt from The Royal Pastime of Cock-Fighting, or the Art of Breeding, Feeding, Fighting, and Curing Cocks of the Game: Published Purely for the Good, and Benefit of All Such as Take Delight in That Royal, and Warlike Sport; To Which Is Prefixed, a Short Treatise, Wherein Cocking Is Proved Not Only Ancient and Honourable, but Also Useful, and Profitable D E O M O U N 0. Which, as Macrobius al/o afirms, jig nzfies One, or Only; and this Attribute they gave to the C och, becau/e he was the greatefl, and almafi the only Deity they A dor' d, the refi being accounted but his A fli/c'ants, and C oadjutars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.