Notes (66. 27—83). 141 



cum, mingle these together, and incorporate them in manner of a plaister. The 

 Macedonians and Gelonians to this receit adde the opening of a vaine in the sole 

 of the foote of a beast, and then to giue him to drinke milke and horses blood 

 mingled together, which cureth all inward impostumes, surfeits or poysons, and to 

 the outward griefe to apply the plaister, which was neuer knowne to be frustrate. 



66. 27. I. R. has — and it is better to weane thy Calues at grasse then at hard 

 meate, if they went to grasse before. 



68. Here I. R. introduces a long flourish about the nobleness of horses, 

 instancing the fabulous brood bom to Neptune and Ceres (who transformed herself 

 into a mare), the transformation of Saturn into a horse, and the like. 



22. I. R. has — and that shall yee knowe by diuers signes, as by her riding of 

 other Horses, by her flinging about the fieldes, or lastly by her priuie part, for 

 that will twirle open, and shut againe, many times in an houre. 



37. lx.\ fortie (by misreading Ix. as xL). 



63 — 79. I. R. varies this, and has — put to your white Mares a daple-gray 

 Horse, so shall he gette all daples ; to your bright bay mares a blacke bay horse, 

 and so shall you gette all broune bayes ; and to your blacke Mares, a blacke 

 Horse, so he haue white feet, white ratch, and white feather ; so shall he gette 

 well-marked blacke Colts. But for the Carte it much matters not for colours, but 

 for knowledge sake know that th<f broime bay, the daple-gray, the bright bay, and 

 the white lyard, are the best colours ; all other colours haue defects and are 

 imperfect : of markes one white foote, a white starre, a white snyp, or a white 

 rache is good : and an Ostrige feather in any place where the horse cannot see it, 

 is the best of all the markes that can be for a horse. And thus much for horses 

 or mares to be chosen or vsed. 



70. 3. and hygh grasse\ and much fogge. 



8. flasshes] and flagges. 9. bunnes\ bands (wrongly). 



32. aftermath] after-croppe. 33, gyrre, &'c.'\ gyre, and to secure so much that 

 hee wil hardly endure to labour. 



39. horse] horses. But horse is the true old plural form, the sb. being neuter ; 

 A.S. hors, pL hors. Nevertheless, Fitzherbert himself has horses in the line 

 following. 



42. put] strike and hurte. 



73. I. rase or a ball] starre. A ball is a streak ; hence the mod. E. bald, 

 M.E. ball-ed. See bald in my Etym. Diet. 



74. 2. to be styffe-docked] a stifle docke or steame of his taile. 



77. 3. syde-tailed ; jyd<? means 'long.' 



78. 2. cressed] crested. And probably erased is a mere misprint 

 5. holowe-foted] hoUow-hooued. 



79. 7. chowynge] chewing. 



80. I. R. expands this chapter and the succeeding chapters so much that it 

 would take up too much space to print all his additions. He gives recipes for the 

 cure of the various diseases, and inserts chapters 'Of the head-ach or meagrum,' 

 ' Of the staggers,' and ' Of the Vines.' ^ I can only undertake to give here a few 

 notes to illustrate Fitzherbert's text. 



83. I. R. has — The mourning of the tongue most commonly called the Canker. 



' Sic ; but we commonly find vitas or vives. And in fact, Fitzherbert treats of it below, 

 in section 91. 



