BOOK I. afid Expert Ferrrer, 2^ 



Ecverthelefs letcorredion be fo confiderately applyed, as not 

 therein to exceed the limits and bounds of moderation ; Let it, 

 I fay> be done to am&ndmem-^. and not to i^jim^/on or confufion-^ and 

 Htter marring of him : for difcretion ir a cale of this nature is a 

 moil precious jewel, and highly to be valued ^ and when his 

 Rider fhall at any time corred him, let it be done in the very 

 inftant when he ofTendeth, and doth juilly merit the fame ; and 

 not otherwile, for elibjie will not know the caufe why he was 

 chaftiied, whereby, he becometh rather confounded than a- 

 mended : fo on the other lide, when theHorfe doth well, let 

 him be cherifhedand much made of, which will the better en- 

 courage him in the fame way of going forward in well-doing. 



And as touching the Groom, he mult be a man who muH tru- ^vhat 

 ly love his Horfe, and fo fhape his courfe towards him, as that "J?nnef 

 the Horie may love and dot*e upon his Keeper, otherwife the g Groom 

 Horie may foon get fo many evil habits, which he will not ea- ought co 

 lily alter or forget. For as hnftotU learnedly faith, Li'\e asyon be. 

 erder him^ fo f)all you find : For the Horfe by nature is the molt 

 loving creature to man of ail other brute creatures, and none 

 more obedient, none more intelligible, none more delirous to 

 pleafe \ wherefore i^ he be fweetly, mildly, and plaufibly dealt 

 with, he will be alfo reciprocal : Otherwife if his Keeper be 

 harfh, furious, cholerick, and paHionate, the Horfe will be put 

 -befides his patience, ftare, and fee boggards in his Keepers face, 

 become rebellious, fall to ftrikingy biting, and other vices, to 

 the often endangering as well of the life and limbs of his Keep- 

 er, as of his Rider, and others.* For the' old Proverb is molt 

 true. Patience oncexvoufided or wrongcd-t is foon turned into fury and 

 ra<Te- For the Horie is not faid to be Oreatnra rationalise a crea^ 

 ture endowed vpith a reafonahle foal ; but is, CreaturafimpUciter ani' 

 m.tt4y a creature which hath only life and fenfe'e as learned Philo- 

 fbphers do teach : a creature (1 fay) in whom is only life, fenle, 

 and memory, but difcourfe he hath not, and therefore mult be 

 governed by judgment and difcretion. If therefore your Groom 

 be a man of a loole* evil, and debaucht life,, or not otherwile 

 able to govern, or to mafter his padions, he is wholly unfit to 

 fiipply this place, and to take a charge of this nature upon him: 

 yea he mult be a man of a boundlefs patience, he mult be judici- 

 ous and difcreet, by which means he may with the greater fa- 



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