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coftiorii their ftomachs being full and their bodies cloyed and 

 overmuch ftuffed with raw and cruded humors v which through 

 violent exercife are difperfedjfirft into all the Veins, (corrupt- 

 ing the blood) and from thence into all the partsof the body, 

 which inger.drethfomany noifbme infirmities within the body, 

 and fo many loathfome fbranccs without the body, as will not 

 eafily bs cured : and therefore it doth greatly behoove a man, 

 that his Horfe (if he love him, and deUre to keep him long) 

 his exercife be neither too intemperate, nor too little, but 

 ordered with judgment and difcretion. 



The fourth caufe of long life is moderate ufe of fleeping and 4- 

 waking, forthefeare the mairitenancc of health and long life, J^o<i-"tc 

 if they be had with moderation, and both arc very noxious o- ''^^^' 

 therwile beyond meafu re. For inordinate watching is a main 

 enemy to health ; for it wafteth aixi confumeth the vital fpi- 

 rits, 2nditdQC2iycththQH^miiinmRaMcaley caufeth maceration 

 and fterility, it is an impediment to the operation of the Brain 

 andfenfe, it begetteth ficcity in the Brain^ and aridity in the 

 MarroWy and worketh the evil effeds in the Liver znd Lungs. 

 On the other iide, immoderate fleep hindreth health, quench- 

 eth the natural heat, and confumeth the moilture in the Body: 

 for fleep is but a vapour and afcending from the Itomach to the ^vhac 

 Brain, which ftupifieth the Brain for a feafon, and during that manncn 

 time it maketh the Body fenfelefs ^ and the fooner it being of rhing 

 jprovoked by over- much feeding, fluffing, and filling of the '^^^P"* 

 belly , and therefore, it greatly ftandeth a man upon that he 

 have a vigilant care to his Horfe his fleep, that it be moderately- 

 taken, for as I faidbut now, as too much fleep is noxious, fb'. 

 alfo too little is as prejudicial* 



The fifth caufeof health and long life, is that great care be ^^o^cn-^ 

 had in keeping your Horfe from cxcefs in fpending bimfelf uponv °" !" 

 Mares, for that is Deaths Harbinger, by reafon it doth after a/p^"n"^^^ 



. moft violent manner^ confume the fpirits, debilitateth the7?fl- Mares. 



' yaach^ drieth up the brain and tnarrove •, and this, is the reafon 

 why a Gelding (if he be kept free from Surfeits) is longer Jiv- 

 ed than the Stoned Horfe : So likdwife the reafon why a Mule, .> 

 •'being a mixed creature, (howbeit aMonfler in nature) is lon- 

 •ger lived than either of them i' for that his jufting (howfoever 

 without fruit) in that kind if but once only in the whole courfe^ 



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