69. Loss of a lamb, calf, or foal. 6i 



60 no reason why, but the lustynes of the nature of bothe 



partes, whether of them shall haue the domination. [Foi. 41*.] 

 But and ye haue mares of d^niers colours, than do as 

 I do, seuer them in diuers parcels, and put to your 



64- white mares a srrey horse, or a wh>i;e horse that hath with white 



^ o y » J mares put a 



noo wh}ie rathe in the foreheed ; and to your grey &ray torse, 

 mares a white horse, so that he be not al white-skynned 

 aboute the mouthe. And to your mares of colour, that 



68 haue no white vpon them, a coloured horse that hath 

 moch white on h)'m, and to your coloured mares of 

 mayne whyte, a horse of colour of mayn whyte. And 

 thus shal ye haue well coloured coltes. It maketh noo 



72 mater of what colour the horse be, soo he be nejiiher 



whj-te nor grey. For if ye put a whyte horse to a Put not a 



white horse 



coloured mare, she shall haue moste comonly a sandy with a 



coloured 



colte, lyke an yren-gray, neyther lyke syre nor damme, mare. 

 76 Howe be it I haue seen and knowen many mares, that 

 wyll haue theyr colte lyke the horse that gate it, the 

 whiche is agaynste kynde of mares, for a manne maye 

 rather gette one good horse than many good mares. 



69. {^ The losse of a lambe, a calfe, or a foole. 



It is lesse hurte to a man, to haue his cowe caste her 

 calfe, thanne an ewe to caste her lambe. For the calfe 

 wyll soucke as moche mylke, er it be able to kyll, as it[Foi.42.] 

 4 is worthe, and of the ewe commeth noo profytte of the 



mylke, but the lambe. Howe be it they vse in some Some men 



milk ewes, 



places to mylke theyr ewes, whan they haue wayned hut it is a 



loss. 



the}T lambes : but that is great hurte to the ewes, and 

 8 wyll cause them, that they wyll not take the ramme at 

 the tyme of the yere for pouertye, but goo barreyne. 

 And if a mare caste her foole, that is thn-se soo great A lost foal 

 a losse, for if that foole be commen of good brede, as lo^^^ 

 12 it is necessary euery man to prouyde, for as moche 

 costes and charges hath a badde mare as a good, in 



