Lib. II. Of Cures Chymrgical, 2oe 



leaveth no more foals Teeth but one on each lide both above and below- 

 at five years old he hath never a foals Tooth before, but then he changeth 

 his Tulhes on each fide : At fix years old he putteth up his Tuflies, near 

 about which you fhall fee apparently growing a little Circle of new and 

 young Flefli \ befides, the Tufh will be white, fmall, fhort, and fliarp : At 

 feven years old, the two outmoft Teeth of his neather Chap on both fides 

 will be hollow, with a little black fpeck in them, and at eight years old, 

 then all his Teeth will be full, fmooth, and plain, the black fpeck being 

 clean gone, and his Tuilies will be fomewhat yellow, without any Circles 

 of young Flefh: At ni'ne years old, his foremoft Teeth will be very long, 

 broad, yellow, and foul, and his Tufhes will be blunt : And ten years old' 

 in the infide of his upper Tufhes will be no holes at all to be felt with 

 your Fingers ends, which till that Age you (hall ever moft perfectly feel j 

 befides the Temples of his Head will begin to be hollow and crooked • 

 At eleven years of Age his Teeth will be exceeding long, very yellow] 

 black, and foul, only he will cut even, and his Teeth will ftand direOity 

 opponte one againft another: At Twelve years old his Teeth will be long, 

 yellow, black, and foul, but then his upper Teeth will over-reach and hang 

 over his neather Teeth: At thirteen years his Tuflies will be worn dole 

 to his Chap, if he be a much ridden horfe, otherwife they will be black, 

 foul, and long, like the fangs of a Boar. 



If a Horfe's Hoofs be rugged, and as it were feamed, one feam over ano- 

 ther j if they be dry, full, and cruity, it is a fign of a very old Age ^ as on 

 the contrary parr, a fmooth, moilf, hollow, and well founding Hoof is a 

 fign of young years. 



If you take your Horfe with your Finger and your Thumb by the frern 

 of the Tail, dole at the fetting on by his Buttock, and feeling there hard; 

 if you feel betwixt your Finger and your Thumb of each fidi his Tail a 

 ioint ftick out more than any other joint, by the bignefs of a hazel Nut, 

 'then you may prefume, the Horfe is under ten years old 5 but if his joints 

 be all plain, and no fuch thing to be fdt, then he is above ten, and at 

 lealt thirteen- If a Horfe's Eyes be round, full, and (Parting from his 

 Head, if the pits over his Eyes be filled, fmooth, and even with his Tem- 

 ples, and wrinkles either about his brow or under his Eyes, then the Horfe 

 is young: If otherwife you fee the contrary CharaQers, it is a Sign of 

 Old Age. If you take up a Horfe's Skin on any part of his Body, betwixt 

 your Finger and your Thumb, and pluck it from the tleOi, then letting it ^ 



go again, if it faddenly return to the place from whence it came, and be 

 fmooth and plain without wrinkle, then the Horfe is young, and full of 

 Ihength ^ but if being pulled up, it ftand and not return to his former 

 place, then be affured he is very old, and exceeding wafted. 



Laflly, If a Horfe that is of any dark colour, (hall grow griffel only about 

 the Eye-brows, or underneath his Mane, it is then an infallible Sign of moft 

 extreme old age ; And thus much touching a Horfe's age. CHAP. ' 



