64 TleCompkat Eorfc-nun^ CHAP. -II. 



ofhb life-, and therefore I could wi{b> that oriCHorfe be not 

 fuffered to cover above three Mares at the moll throughout 

 '^he whole yera*, ard that from the years of his coming to rix> 

 "iViit'il he hath attained twelve, and no longer^ for when a 

 'Horfe, hath onGe-feen twelve years of his age, nature will -theu 

 'begin "to decay, whereby he fliall not be able to beget Colts 

 Vhich can prove fo good and ferviceable, as thofe he begat in 

 his young years. For beHjes (hard and toilfome labour) this 

 adi: of coity with Mares doth more weaken and dull him.;, for 

 you cannot be ignorant cf the old Pro verb,. vhich faith j Omn'e 

 anim^il pojl Coitum trijfe, 

 Moderare The lixth caufe of long life is, modera.te i idhig in long jour- 

 journy- nles, for by intemperate driving his heat frora the inward in- 

 '"^S* to the outvv ard part? of the body, is the caufe vliat the fire of 

 ^ ' ^tho!er wiW bd enyndled, which, will be fo- vehemi;i]t as that it 



yfnufi: needs prove'ahinHdite horrourunto nature', To Inflaming 

 tht bfoo,£iy that if the Horfe at the fame inllant be not very- 

 empty and' clean "in his hody^ the b'ciid^ud hnmonrs being mixed 

 together, will be through the violence thereof, difperiedinto 

 all and every part and meniber "of the body, and then a fuddeh 

 cold taken upon it". (which rarely faileth ) doth infl.antly pii- 

 trlfie and corrupt the' i'/^c^^,' and congealethit to the unavoida- 

 ble peril of the life of theHorfe ; efpecially if after this intem- 

 perate riding, he be either fiffered to drink, or ridden into 

 the water, as many of your furly an,d lazy Grovms-^xQ. accuftom- 

 ed tiado. My pun.lQl theiieror.e is,, ;.that when .you .have any 

 long'jdufney in/iiao'd'^ "'let^Rif .irayel^c mcderate," inhibit walk- 

 ing, waHiing, or giying" him cold water, butfo foon as you 

 fhall difmount him, IttKxkKetper have him into the Stable well 

 littered^ ^andthfoughlyj rf,lf?be|d^Vthrough all the, paj ts of his 

 body till he be.th6t-3v7 d.r^'., JeT^li'hbe cioathed. and ftppped 

 up Vvatni, ;an<d'at^'k'r|eafoV;ab^ vvater.' 



^, The (evcir'th-bau'e of health andplorg life, is wholfome air 



Wi:o*c- and foil, c1'ci;i*fe^piiVg;j;ai'nfiif and "good drefUng, the Stable 

 forae Air. }(ept ncat, fvveet, and warm, j, his J(^6d -bjd, fwcet, clean, and 

 dry, well lifted Snd^^'lja^|;ji^^^^ \. his 



litter ivvtct and/(fryp "apd a'll.weta.r^^^ pidjlitier removed from 

 ander his feet and maiig^e^*,' anal^taij ej/U'lavours be removed 

 from about the Stable. ^, , ^ ^, ' '" ' • ' 



The 



