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to the firft, it is a misfcrtune whenever it hap- 

 pens that not only reduces the horfe very much 

 in his value, but is confidered an indelible 

 ftigma of imperfedion, that (with connoif- 

 feurs) renders him at firft fight unworthy a 

 fecond confideration. This being a circum- 

 ftance univerfally underftood and admitted, 

 there is no doubt but every prudent man will 

 think a certain preventative preferable to 

 a doubtful cure, and admit the propriety of a 

 iliort obfervation, without any unfair digrefllion 

 from the fubjedl before us. Not indulging 

 the fliadow of fear, by offending the fhallow 

 EQUESTRIAN HEROES of ROTTEN- 

 ROW, or the more expert and courageous, 

 who (for once in their lives) have joined the 

 royal chafe; including that set who reach 

 London in an hour znA^fteen minutes, ^^ All 

 *' Lombard'Jireet to an egg-Jljell /" I will ven- 

 ture to affirm, that nineteen of every twenty 

 are brought to the ground by unfair and moft 

 lunmerciful ufage. 



For thofe doubtful compofitions, whofe heads 

 are as light as the heels of their horfes, and 

 whofeform,bythe hurry of conception and am- 

 biguity of generation, are deftituteof the more 



noble 



