5^ The Ccmpkjt Horfi-maff, CHAP. V. 



truly fay of them : th^t mtta kr^^w the terms or principle s^ is fobs 

 ignorant of the krt it fdf : And yet I have known fome of thefe 

 fo impudently weak, as to take upon them to teach, whereat 

 I have not a little marvelled, it being a general received rule> 

 viz.. It is impojfible for a man to teach that which he never lenrned. 

 And farther a venerable Author laith, He that mlL be his overt 

 Scholar^ fl}all be fure to have n fool to his mafier. For alTuredly'? 

 great folly and we^tknefs is to be ebferved in that man-^ who (Ijall take 

 Hpon him to be a. mafier or teacher-, who never k^exv what it was t9. 

 be a Scholar. 



But if you defire to have your Colts eome to the height of 

 perfecflion, let then your care be to turniih your felf of a good 

 Rider, and fuch an one who is well known and cryedup to be 

 an exquifite Horfeman. He muft not be of life difiblute, or 

 debaucht, nor of nature harfh, furious; cholerick, or hair- 

 braiii'd : for the leail of either of thefe vices, are unbefeeming 

 a perfon of this profeflion i but he muft be of life fober, and in 

 his function laborious and diligent, of complexion Flcgmatick, 

 and patient, he rauft be maPjer of his padions ; for A wife man 

 knoweth how to conquer and overcome himfelf: for that Rider that 

 i« eholeriek, ralh, hafty, and foon provoked to impatience,can 

 never make a good Horfeman, let him love the Art never 9> 

 well j neither fiiall he be able to make a Horfe fo perfect as q^ 

 therwiie he might have done, were he otherwife conditioned y 

 but let him apply his beft endeavours,yet that Horfe he maketh, 

 Ihall have defects, which his inconfiderate harlhnefs hath cauf- 

 ed. For if your young Horfe be rightly organized, and as 

 well natured, as well mettled, and as correfpondent for marks 

 and colours, he feldom proves ill in the making, fuppoling his 

 Rider be mafier of his Art : but if otherwife, by which means 

 he do fall into imperfedions or vices, it is not much to be won- 

 dered at *, for thofe his evil conditions and faults are not fo 

 much to be imputed to the Horle as to his Teacher : and as 

 touching curftnefs and corredtion to be ufed to young Horfes, 

 we have a general rule in Horfemanlhip, which is^ that he is 

 net cried Hp [or a good Horfeman-, who wanteth knowledg how to bring 

 h,is horfe to perfeBion by fweet and gentle means., rather than by corre- 

 BioK 'in d fever e chafiifement : yet that correction muft fometimes 

 fee uied, no man but kcoweth, to be as neceflary as his meac ; 



never 



