I20 Of Cures Phyfical. Lib. I. 



The Arabian Horfe is moft Swift and moft Beautiful. 



The Horfe of Africay which we call the Barbary Horle, is of good 

 Courage, Swift, and Nimble, and therefore both the Turky Horle and 

 he muit be ufed with all Lenity and Gentlenefs, and not with Beating. 



The Friezeland Horfe is Fiery, yet the worft of any. 



The Fl^mifn Horfe is worfe than the Friezeland. 



The Spaniih Gennet is Good, Swift, and Light. 



The Neapolitan Courfer for all Ufes is moft Excellent and Beautiful. 



Obferve to win your "Horfe by Patience and Gentleneis, and never be 

 Angry or Mad with your Horfe, if he be of great Mettle ; only the 

 Dull Horfe muft with much Beating be quickned and inflamed. 



Anoint your Bitt when you put it firft into your Horfe's Mouth, with 

 Honey and the Powder of Liquoriih, or elfe with Honey and Salt, and 

 at no time put any Bitt or Snaffle into your Horfe's Mouth before you 

 havewaihed it. 



Never take your Horfe back before you have the Bridie-Rein faft in 

 your hands, and when you walk down any Hill, by no Means drive your 

 Horfe loole before you. 



If your Horfe have a long Back, let him have a large Saddle, and if 

 he have a low Back' let the Saddle have a high Seat, and if his Back be 

 iliort, let the Bolfters ftand the nearer and clofer together. 



If your Horfe be Dull, you muft Spur him Ibundly, and after fuch 

 Spurring rub his Sides with Salt. 



Chap. CX. Certain general Ohfervations concerning M^res. 



N length and height, a Mare groweth till ilie be five Years old, and 

 a Horle till he be fix. 



When a Mare is paft two Years old ftie may be Covered, but the beft 

 time is after four Years old. 



Common Mare? may bring Foals every Year, but let your beft Mares 

 bring but every fecond Year, efpecially if they bring Horfe-Colts. 



After Covering by no Means Travel yonr Mare. 



To get Horfe-Colts, Cover before " the Full of the Moon, and when 

 the Sign is a Fe-male : And to get Mare-Colts Cover after the Full, and 

 in the Male Signs : For note it, there be Twelve Signs, Six Male, and 

 Six Fe-male. 



To make a Mare ftand to her Horfing, fet her T)y the Horfe two or 

 three Days that he may much defxre, and be acquainted before he Cover 

 her , After bring them out, and let him Serve her, and have ready a 

 Pail-cf Water, which, when the Horfe ihrinkefh from her, pour upon 

 the Ridge of the Mare's Back, the fet them fo far afunder as that the 

 one may not hear the other : Do this three Mornings, and three Even- 

 ines together, the let her not come ner the Horfe after, till flie be hiit, 



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