BOOK I. dKci Expert Ferrkr, 



unlefs we do apply our belt endeavours herein ^ for theAnti- 

 Cnts have this Proverb, u4U rare and excellent things are hard to 

 cempaff. And therefore we ought to apply all care and induftry 

 to attain unto good Horfes, which can never be fo well done, 

 as by breeding them j for they muft be the Horfes that will be 

 belt able to ierve us in thofe offices whereunto we fhall intend 

 them, according as hereafter fhall be moft exactly illuftrated. 



C H A P. IF. 



Of the bejl man tier of Breeding, 



THere are fo many diverfities of opinions, fo mainly de- 

 fended fro & con^ that make men fearful to bring that 

 to publick view, which long practice and experience 

 hath brought them to know and underftand to be moft true and 

 infallible : Neverthelefs I prefliraing, that the more judicious 

 may peradventure favour my Reafons and Grounds j allowing 

 them at leafl for probable and good, if they fhall adventure 

 to make trial, which if they be pleafedfo todo, 1 am confident 

 they will both allow and approve of this my manner of hretd- 

 ingt above all other ways heretofore pradiled \ who finding 

 it to be much better, will never be brought from the fame me- 

 thod : and therefore I would not have any man to condemn me 

 before he ftiall firft have made tryal. 



My Counfel therefore is, that fuch generous Spirits, unto 

 whom Almighty God hath extended his benign hand, would ' 

 take to their confideration, how needful a thing it is for themi 

 to lay hold upon this fo noble and profitable a blefTmg and bene-'i 

 fit, by applying their beft care and diligence to breed good> ^ 

 able and ferviceable Horfes, which may be aseafily performed*/ 

 and in a manner with as little cofl, as in breeding Jades and 

 Baffles, unufeful and unprofitable. For by procuring a good ' 

 and able Stud of choice Mares, and by endeavouring to get ' 

 fcleft Stallions, which for mettle, fpirit, fhape, colour, marksj 

 and the like, fhall be known to be rightly bred, and truly gene-' 

 reus, as well (1 fay) the Mares as the Stallions s andthefe, 



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