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them, and this muil be done three mornings 

 faffing, keeping the horfe from drinking three 

 or four hours after — others ufe to bind about 

 the fnaffle or bit, man's dung new made,and fo 

 ride him therewith." 



Of tired, Horfes, page 74. 



After difcourfing rationally enough upon 

 tired horfes, old Gervafe thus proceedeth. 

 " Then for the cure of any of all thefe pro- 

 ceeding from dulnefs, fearfulnefs, and unwil- 

 lingnefs, you (hall take ordinary window glafs, 

 and beat it into fine powder ; then take up the 

 fkin of each fide the fpur-vein, between your 

 finger and your thumb, and with a fine awl 

 or bodkin, make divers fmall holes through his 

 (kin, then rub glafs powder very hard into 

 thefe holes ; which done, do but mount his 

 back, and do but offer to touch his fide with 

 your he^ls, and be fure if he have life in him, 

 he wall go forward. Now, if it be fo that your 

 horfe tire in fuch a place, as the neceffity of 

 your occafions are to be preferred before the 

 value of your horfe, and that you muft feek 

 unnatural means to controul nature ; in this 

 cafe you fhall take (where the powder of glafs, 

 &c. cannot be had) three or four round pebble 

 flones, and putj them into one of his ears, and 

 then tie the ear that the flones fhall not fall 



out, 



