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^rink of Diapeate-, mentioned in Lib. 2. Ckip.j. Setl.i. with 

 good Sack, and let liim after his drink be inured to hardinefs 

 fome days before his turning forth, by taking by degrees his 

 clothes from him, left by doing things on a fuddain, he fortune 

 to take more cold than you can eafily cure : neither would I 

 have you put him forth till the midft of A^ay^ at the fooneft, 

 for till that time, grafs will not have bite enough for him to fill 

 his belly, nor the feafon warm enough, fand let the day where- 

 in you turn him forth be a warm San-(hine day, and about the 

 hour of ten forHorles pampered in warm [tables, and kept 

 dole, will be fubjed to take cold, if adifcreet order and courle 

 be not taken with them. Secondly, let him be taken up from 2» 

 Grafs about the feaft of St. Bartholomew-, which is upon the 2+ 

 day of Augiift^ or foon after, for then the feafon doth begin to 

 let fall cold dews, which betideth no good, but much harm 

 to your Horle, and then beginneth the heart of Grafs to fail, 

 ib as the Grafs which then he feedeth upon, breedeth no good 

 nutriment, butgrofsflegmatick and cold humors, which putri- 

 fieth and corrupteth the blood. Let your Horfe, I fay, beta- 

 Jcen up about the day before mentioned, but with all the quiet- 

 nefsthat may be for fear of heating him, by reafon hisgreafe he 

 gat at grafs is tender, fo as every little motion will difTolve the 

 fame, whereby the bloudmaybe inflamed, and fo the Horfe be 

 bi-onght into imminent peril,at leaft of licknefs, if not ofdeath. 

 A day or two after you have him in the ftable, or Ibonerr let 

 him be (hod, and let blood, and drencht, as before is Ihewed -^ 

 you ', for this preventeth Yejlows, Stavers, and fuch like dif. 

 eaies, which the Gall and Spleen occafioneth, which the heart 

 and llrength of grafs (through the ranknefs of the blood) doth - 

 ingender in his body ;, Then purge and cleanfe him both out-- 

 wardly and inwardly, like as you are taught £/^. 2. 0?.i/>. 2. 

 \ Thirdly, fearch your Horfes mouth, both then and atother; 

 times often, for fear ofBarbesJ3igs, Blifters, and Cankers,and 

 fuch like maladies which are very incident to breed in the 

 iriouthes of Horfes, which by the colour of the fpots of hls^ 

 Gums, Tongue,, and Mouth you may perceive, and fo the bet-, 

 ter and mote eafily both prevent and cure all fjch difeafes asare 

 mherent to thofe parts. Fourthly, rub and wa[h fomctimes 

 your Horfes mouth and toague with Vinegar or Verjuice min- 



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