12 2"/6e Compkat Horfe-ifsatf^ CHAP. 11. 



for fear the Fole come not right , and fo foon as fhe hath foled 

 and licked it dry, let her keeper prefently milk and ftroak 

 her, and that before the Colt do fuck her j which will both 

 caufe her to give down her milk> making the fame to multiply, 

 dnd alfo keep the Udder that the milk do not clod, which if it 

 fliould do, the Mare might happily in fhort time become dry j 

 whereof if there be any peril, I then advife you to draw as 

 much milk from her >s. you can, and boil it with the leaves of 

 Lavender, or Spike, and fo bathe her Udder therewith warm, 

 continuing fo daily to do, until by this means you have broken 

 the curd, knobs, and knots, caufmg them to be diflblved. And 

 • * as for the water which fhe is to drink for forae time after her 

 folingjlet it be either fweet mafhes,or white water,and a month 

 after her foling,give her a mdfh,puttingthereinto th^ powder of 

 Brimitone, or Savin,or the like,whichwill be a great prcferva- 

 tion of the Colt j and then if fhe be moderately Laboured either 

 ,at Plough or Harrow, if fhe will draw, as well the Mare as 

 Colt will profper the better; provided fhe be kept from raw- 

 meat while fhe remaineth in theStsble*, by which means Ihc 

 will the foontr recover flrcngth, luft and courage, and- have 

 ftore of good milk, which v\ ill caule the Colt to thrive the bet- 

 ter, and to grow to be of the greater bone, which above all 

 things is a matter of greatcft coniequence. And that you fuf- 

 fer not the Colt to fuck the Mare when fhe cometh from work, 

 until fhe be throughly cold^ left thereby you furfeit the Colt. .; 

 Thus much 1 have thought fit to handle of this fubjedt •, and 

 albeit I have laboured herein to attain to brevity, neverthelefs 

 the premiffes well confidered, I fhall not greatly offend in pro- 

 lixity, howfoever this my manner of breeding being different 

 from the old received Cuftomes, will not ( 1 do affure me J 

 pafs void of cenfure. ' But as touching old cuftomes, thus much 

 I do aver, that as they are in many cafes of that force, as no 

 law is able to abrogate ; fo on the contrary part, many of 

 them are fo abfurd and ridiculous, as nothing can be more 5 

 for what faith the Civil Law ? Thofethings which by event or fue^ 

 tefs of time are foHnd to be fermciom or hnrffnl^ even thofe things 

 vHght to be repea.'ed^ yea albeit they^ere at the fir ft found profitable. 

 Which ground 'holdeth good in' nothing (o much as in oldCu- 

 ^omes^ for of theirtibfnrdkies, I am able to produce inftances 



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