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to his 3/<<^(rr, and to endeavour by fair Ufageto aC2 

 quire ^ reciprocal Love from him again, and an exaft 

 Obedience^ which if he know how to pay it to his Ma^ 

 /^r, he will the better be able to teach it his Horfe-^ 

 and both the one and the other are to be obtain'd by 

 fair means, rather than by Pallion and Outrage. For 

 thofe who are fo irrational themfehes , as not to be 

 able to command their own Pafsions , are not fit to 

 imdertake the reclaiming of an Horfe, (who by na. 

 tMre is an irrational Creature) from his. 



He muft then put in practice that Patience^ which 

 I would have him Mafter of, at all times, and by that 

 and fair means he fhall attain his End : For nothing 

 is more tradable than an Horfe, if you make ufe of 

 Kindnefs to win him. Next, Neatnefs is requifite in a 

 Croomy to keep his Stable clean fwept and in order ^ his 

 Saddles, Honfing-cloaths^Stirrops^ Leathers^^nd Girths, 

 cleane,and above all his Horfe de^n drejpd and rubb'd» 

 Diligence in the lafi: place is requifite both in a daily 

 pradice of his Duty, and in obfcrvirg any the 

 fmallefi Alteration whether cafml or accidental^ either, 

 in his Countenance, as Symptoms of Sicknefs^ or in his 

 Limbs and Gate, as Lamenefs, or in his Appetite, as 

 forfaking h\s Meat^ and immediately upon any fuch 

 Difcovery to feek out for Remedy. 77?^ is the/«6-' 

 fiance of the Groom's Duty in general, and which I 

 fhall treat of more at large as Occafion fliall offer it' 

 ielf. 



Ifi, the mean time iinct Bartholomew -tide^ is now; 

 come , and the pride and ftrength of the Grafs 

 rypp'd by the levcre Frofls, and told Dews which 

 accompany this Seafony lb tbat the Nourifliment 

 thereof turneth into rawCriidtfjes^ and theColdnefs 

 oftheA7^/;f (which is an Enemy to the Horfe) a- 

 batesas much Flefli and Lull as he gettcth in the 

 Day^ we will now take him up from Grafs whilft his 

 CoAt lies fmooth and llcck. Hav ing 



