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drinketh, let him be gently walked or ridden up and down according to 

 his Strength, tfiat is, if the Weather be warm abroad ; if it be Cold 

 Rnd Wiijdy, then in the Stable or fome clofe Houfe, fufFering neither to 

 eat nor driiijc for two hoiurs after his Medicine ; and from cold Water 

 you fkail keep him the fpace of fifteen Days. Now for his ordinary 

 Food or Provender,you ft^ll repute that beft which he eateth beft, what, 

 ioever it be , and tte you ihall give him by little and little, and not any 

 grois or great qjaantity at once, becaule the abundance and glut of Food 

 taketh away both, the Appetite and Nutriment which fliould proceed from 

 wholelbme Feeding. 



Chap. LVIII. How to waie a Lean Horfe Fat. 



B Elides this general Confumption of a Horfe's Fleih, which for the 

 moft part, or altogether, proceedeth from Sicknefs ^ there is alfi> 

 another Confumption, or want of Fieih, which proceedeth from 

 Neihnels, Tendernels, Freeneis of Spirit, and the Climate under 

 which the Horle is Bred : as Namely, when a Ilorle that is Bred in 

 a Warm Climate comes to live in a Cold ^ or when a Horle that is Bred 

 upon a fruitful and rich Soil, comes to live in a Barren and dry Place^ 

 In any of thele Cafes, the Horle will be Lean without any apparent fign 

 of Grief or Dileafe, which to recover, there be many Receipts and Me- 

 dicines •, as namely ,the Ancient Farriei*s did uie when a Horfe either grew 

 Lean without Sicknfs or Wound, or any known Diftemperature, to take 

 qiiuarter of a Peck of Beans, and boil them in two Gallons of Water 

 till they fwell orburft, then to mix with them a Peck of Wheat-bran,, 

 and lb to give it the Horfe in Manner of a Malh, ©r inftead of Proven- 

 der, for it will fat fuddenly. Others, and efpecially the Italians^ \yi]X< 

 take Colewarts, and having fodden them, mix them with Wheat-bran 

 aixl Salt, and give them inftead of Provender. There be others which - 

 take the fatty decoftion of three Tortoifes being \vell fodden, (their 

 Heads, Tails, Bones, and Feet being rejeftedj and giving it the Horfe, 

 iuppoie it fatteth prefently ^ or if you mix the flefh of the Tortoife lb 

 ibdden with your Horfe's Provender, that is good alio. But as the Simples 

 are Italian^ and not Englijh^ fo I for mine own part, refer the ufe rather 

 to them than to my Countrymen. There be others which ufe to fat up 

 their Horfes, by giving them a certain Grain which we call Bock, in the 

 feme manner as we give Oats or Peafe. There be others, which to fat a 

 Horfe win give him only parched Wheats and a little Wine mixed with 

 his Water, and among his ordinary Prpvender, always Ibme Wheat-^&ran^ 

 and be exceeding careful that the Horfe be clean drelTed, well rubbed, , 

 and foft littered ^ for v/ithout fuch clean Keepiiig, there is no Meat will 

 enjoy, or do good upon him ; and alio when he is fed, it muft be by little 

 at once, ^nd not llirfeited. There be other Fsurriers, which to feed up a 



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