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other mens endeavours, as? ih'at I 3o both reverence and 

 admire them, and efteem my (elf unworthy their Scho- 

 lar. But I know no reaibn why I may not publifh my 

 knowledge of this noble Art ^ for what faith a venerable 

 Aut^ri^ ^^'JeBidtfiire -quod r?efiit^ remcrarius cji : 0^ 

 qMrKegatfcire quod fiit\' mgratHs eft: As thnt man is to 

 be accompted for moO: temerarious and ra(b, that fliall 

 •take upon him to knov/ that which in truth he knoweth 

 not 5 fo alfo doth he fliew himfelf to be moft ingrare, 

 who denieth to know that thing which truely he doth 

 know. Innumerable are the grounds which may be laid 

 to the rearing of this Strudure, which being fo well 

 known to all, by fetting each down in particular, f fhall 

 therein but only Sifj'fhi faxmn .volvere \ confume much 

 time f which to me is moft precious) and labour to lit- 

 tle purpolc, and lefs profit 5 and therefore I will in this 

 difcdurfe draw towards an end, left I might tire thee out 

 with too long an Epiftle ^ yet leis I thought I could 

 not inculcate, by reafon there are many things in this 

 -worthy and noble Science, which might otherwile (eem 

 to be very dark and:abftru(e,and the cures I have (I fay) 

 carried Dialogue-wi(e. M tnquam d^ i??quHj£pus inter- 

 fofjeretur ^ meerly to avoid confufion ; For J^Hjiotk faith 

 well 5 Omfie Ens f^aturaliter appetitfttamferfe&JGnem. Eve- 

 ry Ens^ that is to fay ^ every man hath a natural propen- 

 tion to arrive unto that pertediion which he hath a will 

 or defire to underftand. 



■ Now the reafon why I did enterlace my-firft Book 

 with the honours and perfedions which Horfes in for- 

 iner times have atchieved,as alfo with fuch rules and prin- 

 ciples of breeding, fbape, marks, colours, c^f." was left 

 otherwife I might be like to one who telleth a fick man 

 of a fovereign medicine for his infirmity ,p.nd yet conceals 

 from him the uie thereof. And therefore I do make it 

 my chiefett defire, and principal intention yea my ob- 

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