To the T^eader, 



and all tbefe in honour of the Horfe ^ befides many other 

 remarkable things right worthy of note. 



In the way of Breeding, I do intimate unto thee the 

 manner how, the feafon when, the Place where,together 

 with the colours, marks, and (hapes, as well of thy Stal- 

 lions, as of thy Race, or Stud Mares, and from what de- 

 feds they muft be free, what figns are beft wherein to co- 

 ver, what courfe to take with them that they may con- 

 ceive, what exercife is fitteft for them as well when they 

 be with Fole, as after foling, how to cherilh thy Mares 

 when their Colts (hall run by them, and how to breed up 

 thy Coirs till they come to handling, backing, and riding, 

 with other circumftances very neceflary to be known :and 

 thus much briefly for the firfl Book. 



The fecond Book confifteth chiefly of the manner how 

 thou mayft cure all (uch difeafes and maladies (both in- 

 trinfecal and extrinlecal) whereunto either the life of 

 the Horfe, or any of his limbs or members may be any 

 way endamaged or in danger. This I have handled by 

 way of familiar Dialogue, which I hold to be beft, for 

 avoiding of prolix and over-tedious difcourfes 5 by rea- 

 fbn it will very much help the memory of the Reader, and 

 keep his mind the better attent upon the ftate of the 

 Queftion or fubjeft in hand , and by that means I may my 

 felf be the better able alfb to explicate and deliver my 

 meaning much more cleerly. In which Dialogue, I have 

 introduced as prolocutors, three perfbns only, viz, Firfl", 

 Hfppophilm di Gentleman,onewhois the true lover of the 

 Horfe : Secondly Hippiatrus the Ferrier or t^arfial^ one 

 moft expert in Horfe-leach-craft : And thirdly Hippoje- 

 THs his Servant and journey- man, fometimes his Appren- 

 tice bred up by him, from whom Hippofirus hath had 

 his education and knowledge in this Art 5 thefe be all 

 the Dramatis perfin£ to this Scene. Wherefore in the 

 firft Chapter, I do endeavour to illuftrate unto thee the 



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