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are the grounds of Sicknefs. Again, excefs of Humours are of two 

 kinds, the one an equal increale of all manner of Humours gathered 

 together, and the other particular excefs, either of too much Melan- 

 choly Phlegm, or other waterifh Humours whatfoever, the firft being ter- 

 med an abundance of Humours, the latter an excefs of evil Juice or 

 Nutriment. Laftly, there is fulnefs in Quantity, and fulnefs in Quality. 

 Fulnefs in Quantity is when a Horfe is full of Blood, or any other fim- 

 ple Humours. Fulnefs in Quality is, when any of thefe Humours are 

 too hot, or too cold, too grofs, or too thin, now for Emptinefs ; as all 

 Difeaies of fulnefs muft be cured by it only, fo all Difeafes of emptinefs 

 muft be healed by fulnefs, as by taking of Blood, by Purge, Frin^iof?, Seari- 

 f cation, Boxing, Sweating, Bathing, and a world of fuch like, as Ihall be very 

 largely let forth hereafter, in its proper Place, u 



Laftly, Touching the Affeftions of a Horfe's Mind, you ihall under- 

 ftand, that fo far fbith as the Senfitive Soul doth ftretch, fo far they 

 have fenfe and feeling of Affeftions, as Namely, to Love, to Hate, to 

 be Angry, to Rejoyce, to be Sorry, and to Fear : For all which there 

 needs no great Apology, fmce we have it in daily Experience : As who leeth 

 not the Love of fbme Horfes to their Keepers, their Hate to Strangers ^ 

 their Angers in their Fits, their Joys in their Prides and Wooings, their 

 Sorrows in their Sickneffes, and their Fears unto their Riders ; now thele 

 Affediops, fmce many times they are the grounds of ftrange Motions in 

 the Body therefore they ought carefully to be looked unto by the Farriery 

 and that the Horfe be not overprejfcd with any of them ; efpecially Fear and 

 Hatred, the firft wereof compelleth the Blood and Spirits to fly to the 

 inward Parts, and to leave the outward without Senle or Feeling •, and 

 €i\Q latter makes him to be Unquiet, Fierce and Raging -, both together 

 breed Diftemperature in a Horfe, and thofe Diftemperatures ingender 

 mortal SicknelTes. Afid thus much far thefe fix things,being held not Natural in a 

 Hofe's Comfofition, 



C H A P. X. Of Horfis Complexion, 



HAvingfpoken of thole Thirteen Natural, and not Natural things^ 

 whereof a Horfe's Body is compounded, we will now in a Ibme- 

 what more particular manner fpeak of the Complexions of Horfes, 

 which is one of the moft neceHary Faces that a Farrier can behold, both 

 for the judging of a Horfe's Infirmities, and alfo for the true com- 

 pounding of his Medicines for every Difeafe : Therefore you fhall firft 

 underftand, that by the Colour of the Horfe you ihall ever Judge his 

 Complexion : For look which of the Elements is predominant in hira^ 

 from that Element we draw his Complexion : As thus : If he partici- 

 pate more of the Fire than of any of the other Elements, then we 

 hold him to be a Cholerick Horfe, and his Colour is either a bright 

 Sorrdy a Cod Black without any White, or an Iron-Gray unchangeable, that 



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