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have been in some way connected with that particular craft, 

 or was greatly interested in bricks and mortar all his life. 

 Ee that as it may, the Author of " Centaur " would say 

 Shakespeare was a horseman ; not a horse doctor, nor a horse 

 dealer, but one who had a thorough knowledge of, and 

 interest in, the horse and its surroundings. His description 

 of a " screw" and bad " Turn Out," as quoted from '' Taming 

 of the Shrew," could not be better or more truthfully 

 pictured by any harness maker, horse breaker, or veterinary 

 surgeon. 



TAMING OF THE SHREW. 



ACT III. SCENE 11. 



BiONDELLO. His horse hipped with an old mothy mt/dle, tht 

 stirrvps of no kindred, besides possessed with glanders, and like 

 to mose in the chine ; troubled with the lampass, infected with 

 the fashions (farcy), full of tvind-galls, sped with spavins, raied 

 with the yellows, past cure of the fives (vives, " staggers "), stark 

 spoilt with the staggers, begnawn with the hots, swayed in the 

 back and shoukler-shotten, near-legged before (foundered in the 

 fore feet), and with a ha f -checked hit, and a headstall of sheep's 

 leather, which, being restrained to keep hitn from stumbling, hath 

 been often burst, and now repaired with knots ; one girth six 

 times pieced, and a woman's crupper of velure (velvet), which 

 hath two letters for her name, fairly set down in studs, and here 

 and there pieced with pack-thread. 



And again what wonderfully expressive words are put 

 into the mouths of the Constable of France, the Duke of 

 Orleans, the Dauphin, and others, in the late Charles 

 Calvert's favourite play : 



HENEY V. 



SCENE VII. 



Con. Tut ! I have the best armour of the world. 



' Would it were day ! 



Orl. You have an excellent armour ; but let my horse have its 

 due. 



Con. It is the best horse of Europe. 



Orl. Will it never be morning '^ 



Dau. My Lord of Orleans and my Lord High Constable, you 

 talk of horse and armour, — 



Orl. You are well provided of both as any prince in the 

 world. 



Dau. What a long night is this ! I will not change my horse 

 with any that treads but on four pasterns. Ca, ca I He bounds 



