BOOK. I. ar?d Expert Fcrrkr. 9 



Sicily, in a great and well fought Battel, was himfelf fo hard 

 put to it, that he was conllrained to forfake his Horfe, ne- 

 verthelefs the poor beafl made his way through the throngs of 

 the Enemy ^ who all bloody and mieryas he was, gat him to a 

 rendezvous at his Stable. CentaHrems of Galati^y having in 

 battel flain Antiochus, he in a bravado mounted his Horle, who 

 foon found by good experience, (albeit no whit to his advan- 

 tage) that the faid Horfe retained a refentment of the death 

 of his ilain Maftcr : for the Horfe fo foon as he felt this his 

 new Lord upon his back, never gave over flinging, yarking, 

 plunging and bounding, commanding the bit with his teeth, 

 launching out fometimes this way, fometimes that way, with 

 fo great impetuofity and fury, that at length he call his rafh 

 Rider to the Earth, and then fell to him with his heels, re- 

 doubling his ftrokes \a fo thick and violent a manner, not giv- 

 ing over till he had ilain him outright, whereby he gave hira 

 little caufc to triumph and glory in his temerarious attempt. 

 We read of Nicomedes^ King of Bithynia-, whole Horle. fo in- 

 tirely loved him, as that his Mailer was no fooner dead, but' 

 the Horle prelently forfook his meat, and fo continued, until 

 luch time as he languilhing for very grief, dyed of Famine. 

 yirgil th.t Prince of Poets, maketh honourable mention oi Ae- 

 thon, the Horle of Pallas^ fon of Evander, who faith that this 

 Aethon being prelent at the funeral of his Mailer, wept for for- 

 row, as thefe two veries do inculcate ; 



After Came ktt\\OX\-i bold in Fighi^now weeping'^ 

 And in his Tears his mournful J^ifage fieefing. 



Siliiis ItdicHs'm his ninth Book doth highly extol two horfes, 

 to witj Pelorus, and Cirans fpeaking of them in this manner. 



Feady Pelorus was to th' hand and rayn. 

 Obedient (iill-i and of a generous ifrayn : 

 Hearing his Maflers voice Circeus hies 

 Fore the beholder s^ and the wind out flies. 



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The traclablenefs and love that the Horfe beareth to man, 

 haye been the oc<;a[ion that fundry great perfonages have reci- 



B 2 procally 



