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other Elements, lb that he may be called a Melancholy Horfe, then his 

 Colour is commonly a Moule-dun ^ and his diipoiition cowardly, faint 

 andiloathfuL But becaule thefe particulars are properly appertaining 

 to the Complexions of Horfes, of Which we ihall have ca.ule to fpeak 

 more largely hereafter,! will not ftand upon any greater Relations ^ only I 

 give you thus much in conclufion : To underitand that every one of thefe 

 atbrefaid Humours hath his proper ufe and end, whereunto it ferveth : 

 As thus; Blood ferveth more properly to nouriih the Body. Phlegm 

 giveth Motion to the Joynts. Alelancklly begetteth an Appetite or long- 

 ing to his Meat. Kow during the time that, thefe Humours do poffefs 

 their naturat'Qualities, lb long they are whoielbme, and be called by 

 their fimple Kames withont Glofs or Addition. But if by. any mifchance 

 they be dilbrderedor corrupted, then they are unwholefome, and are no 

 longer called by their fimple Names, but have other iipithetons annexed 

 unto them, as McUncholly, Blood, S^tlt, Phlegm, Choler, adust or hurf/t Cho- 

 ler and fretting Meluncholly, whereof proceederh many peftileiit and dan- 

 gerous Difeales, as fhall be at large declared hereafter. And thus much 

 for the State of Humours. 



Chap. V. Of Members, and their fever at Kinds. 



Touching Memhers, which aVe the fourth' m^in Inflrument in diis 

 : Fabrick of a Horfe's Body, they are by School-Men divided into 

 two Parts. The firjft is called SimlUriu, which is like, femblable, or one 

 and the fame thing. The other is called Lifirumerital, and are contrary 

 to the firfl. 



Members alike, are thofe, which beiiig fi^parated, or diftributed into 

 Pxarts, yet every Part thereof is alike in iubftance to the whole, neither 

 altering in Definition, Appellation, or Nature •, as Flefh, Bone, Sinew, 

 and fuch like : For Flefh being.- cut or ijicifed into many Parts,yet is every 

 part flill Flefh, fb reputed, and fb called, as well as when it was in com- 

 bination altogether ; and as of this, fo Hkewife may it be faid of Bones, 

 Sinews, and the like. . ■ ^-^ ^^'^-^ '^ >^ ^-^^n .i^^/- 



■ Now for Members inflrumental, they be •^Hbfe which being made of 

 Parts of femblable, and divided into Parts, yet the Parts are" not alike, 

 neither have one Name with the whole ; as the Head, Leg, Foot, and 

 fuch like : For every part of the Head is not called the Head, nor every 

 part of the Leg, the Leg, but have other Appellations, as the Brow, the 

 Templesj the Knees, the Feet-lock, &c. Now thefe" Inflrumental Mem- 

 bers, in doing of their Offices and Duties, are of much rriore Perfed'ion 

 than the femblable Members: Wherefore School-Men have made a- 

 mongfl: thefe Inflrumental Members,, four . Sovereigns, or Princes above 

 the. reft; that is, rhe Brain, the Heart, the' Livec, 2ind the Stof^as -^ of 

 vvhich the fu-ft three are' th^ prefer vers of the' lingular Body, and rhe 

 '• ' fourth 



