HORSE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 161 



Horse doth shew the full and right number of the sorrows 

 of the party so grieved. If swords, knives, or the points 

 of spears when they are red fire hot, be anointed with the 

 sweat of a horse, they will be so venomous and full of 

 poison, that if a man or woman be smitten or pricked 

 therewith, they will never cease from bleeding as long as 

 life doth last. Topsell, "Four-footed Beasts," pp. 337-8. 



THE tooth of a yearling colt laid on the neck of a 

 baby, makes its teeth come without pain. 



Albertus Magnus, " Of the Wonders of the World." 



THE tooth of a mare placed on the head of a raving 

 madman straightway frees him. ibid. 



THE hoof of a Horse burnt in a house drives away 

 mice. The same with the hoof of a mule. ibid. 



THE Londoners pronounce woe to him that buys a 

 Horse in Smithfield, that takes a servant in Paul's Church, 

 that marries a wife out of Westminster. 



Fynes Moryson, "Itinerary," part iii. p. 53. 

 Cf. ii. KING HENRY IV., i. 2. 



OUR Horses moreover are high, and although not com- 

 monly of such huge greatness as in other places of the 

 main, yet if you respect the easiness of their pace, it is 

 hard to say where their like are to be had. Such as serve 

 for the saddle are now grown to be very dear among us. 

 There is no greater deceit used anywhere than among our 

 Horse-keepers, Horse-coursers and ostlers. There are cer- 

 tain notable markets, wherein great plenty of Horses and 

 colts is bought and sold, as Ripon, Newport Pond, Wolf- 

 pit, Harborough and divers other. But as most drovers 

 are very diligent to bring store of these unto those places, 

 .so many of them are too lewd in abusing such as buy 

 them. For they have a custom to make them look fair to 

 the eye, when they come within two days' journey of 

 the market, to drive them till they sweat, and for the 

 ;pace of 8 or 12 hours, which being done, they turn them 

 ill over the backs into some water, where they stand for 

 season, and then go forward with them to the place 



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