ON HORSEMANSHIP. -6^ 



and bound along, if he is not compelled to continue 

 t longer than he likes ; in which cafe he would grow 

 difgiitled, for nothing in excefs is pleafing eiiher to 

 horfe or man. As foon as he is brought to perform 

 his exercifes with truth and grace, after a turn or two, 

 let him be exerted and urged to a fwifrer pace. When 

 he is fufficiently frank, and prompt to fet off at once ; if 

 in that moment when he is going in confequence of 

 the rider's aid, he reftrains his ardour, by pulling him 

 in to a certain degree, the horfe being on one fide urg- 

 ed to go forward, and yet held back at the fame time 

 by the hand, his pride and courage will be fo rouzed 

 and animated *, that, as it were in a rage, he will 

 advance his cheft, fhift his legs, and lift them from 

 the ground, but not with all the eafe and pliancy that 

 is requifite, and to which he will arrive, when prac- 

 tice has taught him to bend them, with more coolnefs 

 and regularity. 



Y/hen he is thus inflamed, and his courage called 

 out, if the hand is yielded to him, miftaking the loofe- 

 nefs of the rein for a deliverance from all reftraint, 

 he will immediately bound forward, exulting, and 

 confcious of his own qualities, as if he had a pride in 

 difplaying his graceful motions and attitude, and 

 imitating the manner and gait which he affumes when 



* This is what, in the Modern Mamge^ is called the XJnicn, or putting. 

 together, and tends at once to try the refolution of the horfe, raile his 

 Ariion, and improve his figure. 



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