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the blood in any ftate whatever ! That 

 ** blood drawn from a horfe who is evi- 

 dently difordered, will fometimes have the 

 fame appearance when cold, as that drawn 

 from a horfe in health/' And, hey prejloi 

 Vice Versa ! ■'■ On the other hand, blood 

 drawn from a horfe in health \\\\\ fometimes 

 have all the apperance of that drawn from 

 one labouring under the moft dangerous dif- 

 eafe.'* All this Mr. Clarke may '' mq/l po- 

 tently believe,^' yet ** I hold it wrong to have 

 it thus fet down ;" it bears fo great an affi- 

 nity to the ambiguous putting <5^of Hamlet 

 to his inquifitive companions, when he feri- 

 oufly alTures them, 



'* There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark, 

 ** But .he's an errant knave." 



However, that jarring opinions may be the 

 more eaiily reconciled, I will venture to 

 conclude for this very judicious and enligh- 

 tened writer, that he intended to have Jaid^ 

 or wiihed it to be underjlood. That the cales 

 in which the blood of difeafed horfcs bore 

 ^he appearance of ho?-fes in health, were 



thofe 



