7L The 54 properties of horses. 63 



gyue your draught-oxe to moche meate, excepte it be [Foi. 43.] 

 32 the aftermath of a late mowen medowe. For that wyll 

 cause hym to haue the gyrre, and than he maye not well 

 laboure. And there be to moche ffrasse in a close, the Too much 



grass IS bad. 



cattel shall fede the worse, for a good bytte to the erthe 

 36 is suffycyente. For if it be longe, the beaste wyll byte 

 of the toppe and noo more, for that is swetest, and the 

 other lyeth styll vppon the grounde and rotteth, and 

 no beaste w)-ll eate it but horse in w}Titer ; but these 

 40 beastes, horses and shepe, maye not be fodered to-gether 



in wynter, for thanne they wolde be seuered : for els 1° winter, 



■^ _ ■' beasts will 



the beastes with theyr homes wyll put bothe horses 8^°""^ horses 



•^ ^ and sheep. 



and the shepe, and gore them in theyr bellyes. And it 

 44 is necessarye to make standynge cratches, to caste theyr 



fodder in, and the staues set nyghe }Tiough togyther, 



for pullynge theyr fodder to hastely out, for shed}Tige. 



And if it be layde vppon the erthe, the fourthe parte 

 48 therof wyll be loste : and if ye laye it vpon the erthe, 



laye it euer)'e tyme in a newe place, for the olde wyll 



marre the newe. 



71. ^ Tlie properties of horses. 

 Thou grasyer, that mayst fortune to be of m^-ne t?"°'- «*•] 



•' -' Grazier, be 



opynyon or condityon, to loue horses and yonge coltes ^°\^\ 

 or foles to go amonge thy cattel, take hede that thou 

 4 be not begyled, as I haue ben an hundred tymes and i have been 



. J _ . so 100 times. 



more. And nrst thou shalt knowe, that a good horse Agoodhorse 

 hath .liiii. propertyes, that is to say .ii. of a man, .ii. of prop^erties; 

 a bauson or a badger, .iiii. of a lyon, .ix. of an oxe, .ix. 

 8 of an hare, .ix. of a foxe, .ix. of an asse, and .x. of a 

 woman. 



72. \ The two properties, that a horse hath of a man. 



The fyrste is, to haue a proude harte ; and the seconde two, of a 

 is, to be bolde and hardy. 



