, Tkc Complcat HorJc.man^ CHAP. IV. 



merits fet liim the better forth, and caufe him to be the better 

 efteemed, ot every man delired, and much more money offer- 

 ed for huTi? nay, fhall not you (whofe the Horfe is) be come 

 unto, be fuedunto, have letters fent you from fundry friends, 

 and will not your felf prize him at a higher rate than other- 

 wife you would have done? yes aflliredly;, and hereof I make 

 no queftion. True it is, and I mult confefs no lefs, that a 

 Horfe may be very good, and perform his fundion very well, 

 who hath neither good colour, true marks or perfed (hape j 

 neverthelefs, thefe extrinfecal vertues are more frequently to 

 be found, and better obferved to be in good Horfes, in whom 

 arecolour^marksand flnpe^thanin horfes which arc otherwile. 

 Wherefore becaufe thefe things are termed exteriour vertues, 

 and therefore take their objeil from the eye only, I will con- 

 joyn them altogether in this my difcourfe, and fhew you what 

 hath been, and is the opinion of both antient and modern 

 Writers. Virgil in his Georgicks, handling moil accurate- 

 ly fundry points of Husbandry, among other things in his 

 third book ofGeorgicks,defcribeth the Horle,as well his breed- 

 ing,2ndhis fever? 1 forts of employments,as his colour,fhape and 

 marks •, yea, and that in molt exquilite manner : and thus he be- 

 gin neth: 



Let the Males ^o 

 Without refiraim to P^e fiery, andfo 



By timely breeds preferve aperfe^ kif2d. 



Their firft age btfl all wretched mar t*ils find, 



j4fter difeafes and old age do come-y 



Labour f and death's itiexorable doom. 



'There j} ill will be-, whofe bodies with thy will 



ThoH would^fi wifi] changd. Therefore repair them fiid ; 



^?id left thy kind qnite lofi thoH fi/jd too late y 



Prevent the Icfs and yearly propagate. 



j^nd fitch a choice yon mafi in Horfes make^ 



By him, whom you for Stallion mean to tak^y 



As hope of all the race, cleB: with care. 



Even from a tender Pole juch Colt^ Oi are 



Of generous race-i fir eight when atfrf} the/re fol'd^ 



Walk proudly-, their foft joyntsfcarce k»it, andbold^ 



Dare 



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