jB-t '^^'(^ Ccmpkat Horfe-f}tJti, CHAP. IlL 



ir>ny infirmity fhould happen to fieze upon, it, its pwnunruli-: 

 n^fs will be fo great, that the Cure may thereby become the 

 more difficile : fortofpeak truly, infinite Jiave been,, and daily., 

 are the numbers of Colts ^^ yea, andthofe many times rightly 

 bred, which have mifcarried and periOied in this nature. 



I do therefore conclude, and as a friend to my Country aver, 

 that the beflway to breed up the ablefl and mofl ferviceablc' 

 Horfes, is Cas I have before inculcated) after this method, and 

 none others and therefore lam bold to advifeall Noble Genr 

 tlemen, who are lovers of good Horles,and of this Myflery to 

 make tri;.l, and to putthefemy Rudiments in execution, and 

 they will never (I do well affure raej hereafter either alter or 

 fwcrve frcm them ^ for of this kind o^ breeding I have had 

 more than forty years good experience j during which time, I 

 intimated thefe my grounds to a Knight, an intimate friend of 

 mine, who was a great lover of good Horfes, and as great a 

 Breedcr,as a lover of them,nnd very well verfed in Horfe-man^, 

 (hip, who hearing my reafons, and throughly digelling them, 

 approved of them fo well, as that he fell to follow thele my 

 inftrudions, and efteeming them fufficient, would nev°r be. 

 brought from them after \ he affirming, no way. comparable to 

 this •• for he found by plain demonftration, that whereas in 

 former times in breeding (as commonly he did) ten or twelve 

 Colts yearly, when they came to Backing, Riding and proof 

 ofthofe ten or twelve, he thought himfelf well appayed, and 

 his labour and colt well bellowed, if two or three at the moifc 

 proved right, and to his mind , whereas ever after, in ten 

 Colts thus bred and reared up, hardly any one milTed, which 

 proved not right and to his good liking : and this manner of 

 breeding;^ made him more in love with this myllery than ever 

 before, reafon dictating it fo well unto him. For, moH cer- 

 tain itis, when the Stallion and Mare are both right, and have 

 all tlieir true Attributes, and the tims, feafoh, and manner 

 o^ breedhig^ with all circumftances thereunto belonging, pun- 

 dually and in every point duely obferved ; it will be a hard 

 matter for the Colt to prove ill : but if otherwife, then mar- 

 vel not if the Coltanf.ver not your expedation, ^according to 

 the Greek Adage, which faith : y^^S" xo'p^)t(J^ ^wv Zov^ fade Sire^ 

 Jade Cult. Wherefore if upon trial it fhall appear to you, that 



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