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u the ridge-bone of your back be euen with 

 his. And let your left hand, holding the 

 reanes of the bridle, be euen with his creaft, 

 " and in anie wife keep your thighes and knees 

 " clofe to the faddle, holding downe your legs 

 " ftraight, like as you do when you are on 

 " foote. And let your feete reft upon the 

 " flirrups in their due places, both heele and 

 " toe Handing in fuch fort, as when you (hall 

 " turne your head, as farre as you can on 

 " the one fide, without mouing your body, 

 " and looking downward to your ftirrup : you 

 " (hall perceiue that your toe doth dire£llie 

 " anfwere the tip of your nofe : and according 

 " as the faddle is made, fo fhally ou ride long 

 " or (hort. But alwaies let your right ftirrup 

 " be (horter than the other by half a hole.'" — 

 Page 5, firfi Book of The Art of Riding. 



Likewife his legs muft be pendant of an 

 equal diftance from the horfe's fides, his 

 feete fo leuil in the ftirrops, as they are 

 " when he walketh on the ground, neither 

 muft his ftirrop lethers be fo long, that his 

 chiefeft labour (hall be to keepe his feet 

 in them (for fo a man (hall loofe his true 

 feat by ftretching his legges, as if they were 

 on the tenters) nor fo inert that he (hall 

 be rayfed from his true feate (the pitch of 

 his knees being diflpcated from the points 

 " of the faddle) nor ought one ftirrup to be 



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