6o 



68. Co7icerning colts and fillies. 



Keep the 

 horse from 

 the mares. 



Men have 

 various 

 opinions 

 about foals 



I have 60 

 horses my- 

 self. 

 [Fol. 41.] 



With men 

 who speak 

 sophisti- 

 cally, 



a filly may 

 be called a 

 horse-foal ; 

 and a colt 

 maybe 

 called a 

 mare-foal. 



nyght, and that is suffycyent. For it is better, to kepe 

 the horse frome the mares, than to go with them, for 

 dyuers causes, and specyaliy he shall be more lusty, and 



28 the moo horse-coltes shall he gete. But he that hath 

 very many mares, may not alway attende them, but let 

 them go to-gether, and take as god sendes it. Some 

 men holde an opinion, that if the horse be put to the 



32 mare in the begynnynge of the moone, after it be prime, 

 he shall gete a horse-foole. And some men saye the con- 

 trary : that if he be putte to the mare in the olde of 

 the mone, he shoulde gete horse-fooles. And I saye, 



36 it maketh noo matter, whether: for this cause I haue 

 proued. I haue my selfe .Ix. mares and more, able to 

 beare the horse, and from Maye daye vnto saynte Bar- 

 thylmewes daye, I have .v. or .vi. horses goynge with 



40 theym bothe daye and nyghte, and at the foolynge-tyme 

 I haue vpon one daye a horse-fole, and on the nexte 

 daye, or seconde, a mare-fole, and on the thirde or 

 fourth day next after, a horse-fole agayne, and soo euery 



44. weke of bothe sortes, and by theyr opynyon or reason, 

 I shulde haue .xiiii. dayes together horse-fooles, and 

 other .xiiii. dayes together mare-foles. And me semethe, 

 that those men that holde that opinyon, speke sophysty- 



48 callye ; that if soo be they layde any wagers thervppon, 

 that they shoulde bothe wynne in theyr owne conceyte 

 by this reason. Whether it were gette in the newe of 

 the mone or in the olde of the mone, it is a horse-foole, 



52 bycause a horse gate it, though it be a felly-fole ; and it 

 is a mare-fole, bycause a mare fooled it, thoughe it be 

 a horse-colte. And so {Diuersis respedihus) theyr opyn- 

 ions maye be trewe. But of one thynge I am certayne, 



56 that some one horse wyll gette more horse-fooles than 

 other horse wyll doo, and lyke wyse a mare wyll beare moo 

 mare-fooles than some other mare wyll do, thoughe they 

 be horsed bothe with one horse. Me semeth there is 



