BOOK I. afjd Expert Ferrier, . 2« 



it mufl: come to end jufl; betweea the Noftrils, and not to be • 

 more on the one fide of the face, than on the other. This in- 

 deed is of all true Horfe-men efteemed a moll beautiful good • 

 Mark, and well becometh a good Horfe. Some would have 

 the foot being white, to he on the far foot behind, ar.d fome 

 again on the near foot before : I have heard fome highly com- 

 mend the Horfe to have two white feet a crofs, to wit, the 

 far foot behind, and the near foot before, like as had a Horfe 

 ofthe oldLord.54«^f/, being aCourfcr, which he brought out 

 of /M/y,, with, lb much charge, labour and peril of his life, fas 

 his-Lordflii-pdidfundry times report unto me,) which was as a - 

 dark bay, and his two feet a-crofle white j howfoever I have : 

 known fome Horfe-men diflike of the fame Marks, yet I could' 

 never hear the reafons of their diflike. A Knight of my ac- 

 quaintance would highly commend the Horfe, who had a white 

 foot, which was befpeckled with black motly fpots i affirm- 

 ing that a Horfe fo marked did betoken good mettle, great 

 valour,- and an heroick fpirit •, for he would always call fuch a 

 Horfe Equus geuerofiis-i aHorfeofa brave fpirit ^ and this he 

 would report was taught him by old Sir Henry Lea-, that fa- 

 mous Horfe-man, and no lefs ex.cellent Breeder, of whom this 

 Knight bought many delicate Colts, fome of which were thus 

 marked. All good Horfe-men do attclt, that- the Horfe with - 

 much white upon his face, raw nofed, iheath, yard", tuel, and 

 hoofs white, skin white, and legs holed, and wall-eyed, is ge- 

 nerally weak, faint, of a cowardly condition, tender, and wafny . 

 of fleih, fubjed to rebellion, relliffhefs, to ftarting. Humbling, . 

 evilfighted, fubjedl to tire, dangerous to his Keeper, for bit- 

 ing and Ilriking \ and in a word, of a molt bafe and evil con- 

 dition. For the comtenance is the true Index of the mind : And 4 • 

 lewd laok^pro^nojlicateth a lewd condition : And again ^ '^(forified Fcitbcrs 

 countenance doth delineate a wicked deformed difpojition and manners, Holden ro 

 It is holdenfor a good mark in a Horfe to have many Feathers heagood'-.i^ 

 about bis body, as upon his forehead, fo it be lituated above ^J^r^^"^^' 

 the.eyes \ and the higher it Hands, the better : Alfoupon the 

 middle ofthe Neck near totheCreft, under the Neck in th6 

 middle of the Throple, upon the' breafb, and upon both the ^i 

 Flanks, and upon both buttocks, which for Horfes to have Fea- • 

 ther§ in th^fe and fuch like places, is moft comraendabic. -. 



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