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h!ood^ neither is the creature able to concod and digeft its 

 meat, nor can the cods be hot : So as if there be in thofe parts 

 a defed of heat, t\\zfeed of the beaft cannot be perfedly con- 

 coded ■■) by which means the Horfebecometh frigid and impo- 

 tent, and without any power at all of frdcreution. And this 

 is as much as need be faid of this fubje(5t : Wherein if I have a- 

 ny way erred, or not delivered my fclf fb clearly, whei eby to 

 be underftood as I delire, the blame mull light upon the great 

 defire I promiied to brevity .* Howfoevcr I have endeavoured 

 what in mclieth, to dilate and explicate my felf at fi-!). 



Now I will begin to fhew you what means we have to pre- 

 lerve Horfes from all inward Dileafes ^ which coniifteth of 

 four ways, viz,, by Pt^ygifig-i Sweatings PhUhotomie or Blood-ict- 

 ing^ and f^omit. As touching the firft which is Purging^ it is 

 twofold, to wit, outward and inward, This outward purgwg c.'eanflng 

 is by cleaning the outward parts, which muft be done imme- fn^pu-'g- 

 diately at what time you take up your Horfe from grafs, which Q^f^^^l^ 

 would be about Saint Bartholomews day *, for then the heart of rurgmg. 

 grafs doth begin to decline, and therefore after that day, the 

 grafs he then feedeth upon, breedeth no good but bad and cor- 

 rupt blood, and fo conlequently fundry forts of maladies and 

 infirmities in his body ^ befidcs, theair beginneth then to grow 

 fi^arp, which is alio very dangerous, yea, and mofl contagi- 

 ous for him : and if you fuffer him to run after that time, his 

 hair will grow long and rough, fb as he will not have for 

 that Winter any flick or glittering coat. Of this outward 

 cleanfing or purging your Horfe, you fhall find taught you in 

 hb. 2. c^p. 6. Se^i 9 and the manner how and when it would be 

 done, viz.. in a warmday inthe Sun, at what time every part 

 and member of him would be foaped, waihed, dried, and 

 deanfed from all manner of fweaty fcttrf^ dnfty dirt^ and fi'th^ 

 yea and that all his whole Body over, efpecially his Mane,Tail, 

 and Cods, who being thus cleanfed and made dry again, and 

 his yard drawn, cleanfed and anointed with tried Hogsgreafe, 

 let his Ears, his Mane, (jufc fo far as the top of the head flali 

 will cover, and no more) and under the Chaul, be handfomly 

 trimmed ^ then pull away by the roots all the fmelliiig hairs 

 about and under his mouth and nofe, and the longfiiii/korfi-hairs 

 under and about his Eiesy which done, cut away about a 



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