I j2 THE HISTORY AND ART 



docile and affeclionate to man ; full of fpirit and cou- 

 rage, tempered with mildncfs and good nature, and 

 generally very eafy in all their paces ; of a moderate fizc 

 for the mod part, although fized horfes are fometimcs 

 to be found among them. Thofe which are bred in 

 Upper Andahifia are deemed the mod valuable, although 

 they generally have their heads too long, and difpro- 

 portioned ; but this blemifli, and many others which 

 may happen, and are not eflential, are all amply 

 atoned by numberlefs pleafmg, good, and great qua- 

 lities ; by the fweetnefs of their tempers, the beauty 

 and even majefty of their motion, and the affecliion 

 and fidelity with v/hich they ferve their mailers : fo 

 that enriched and adorned with thefe grateful qua- 

 lities and high accomplifhments, they are thought to 

 eclipfc the reft of their kind in the fervices of war, 

 the graceful airs of the manege, the pomp of caval- 

 cades and public folemnities *, and very juftly to merit 

 the title which that difcerning judge, the Duke of 

 Newcaftle bellows upon them, when he calls them 

 " the Kings of horfes." 



^ Lono- aco, and indeed at all times, they were fo efleemed, as to 

 be confidered as cfiTential to public entries, and folemn proceffions ; 

 other nations being dcfuous to procure them, and always employing 

 them upon thefe occafions. When Queen Elizabeth made her entry 

 into Oxford, fome Spanifli horfes were led in the proceffion.— 7;W«^i 

 fucrant aliqtioi AJlurcones, /inefejforihus^ auratis Sericifque Ephippiis inftrati. 



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