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" The Hungarian hath a great and hooked head, and his 

 eyes stand ahnost without his head, his nostrils are narrow, 

 and his jaws broad, his neck is long and rough, with a mane 

 hanging down nearly to his knees, he hath a large bulk, a right 

 back, a long bush tail, his legs be strong, his pasterns small, 

 and his hoofs full and broad, his guts are hollow, and all his 

 body is full of empty corners, his buttocks are not filled with 

 fat, neither do the brawns of his muscles appear, of stature 

 he is more in length than height, and therewith somewhat 



Fig. 91. The Hungarian Horse. 



side-bellied, his bones are also great, he is rather lean than 

 fat, which leanness is so answerable to the other parts of his 

 body, as the due proportion observed in his deformity, maketh 

 the same to be a beauty. And as touching his inward dis- 

 position, he is, as Vegetius saith, both temperate and wise, and 

 able to abide great labour, cold and hunger, and very meet for 

 the war." " Camerarius also saith that they be very swift, and 



quam in altitudine statura, propensior venter, exhaustus, ossa grandia, macies 

 grata, et quibus pulcritudines praestat ipsa deformitas: animus moderatus et 

 prudens, et vulnerum patiens. 



