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Tlie eighth caufe of health and lofig life is, not to fuffcr 8. 

 yonr Horie to be travelled or exerciied too foon after you have Not to 

 taken him from grafs, until fuch time as he be throughly purg- J-"^^' J°^ 

 ed and cleanfed from his fuperfluous and bad humors, which he p^^,-.^^ ^^ 

 gat by being at grafs in time of his reit, and full feeding, 

 which certainly are not a lew ) but hereof I have fufficiently 

 fpoken before in this very Chapter,and therefore I pafs it over. 



The ninth caufe of health and long life, is, not to fnffer 9. 

 Jhim to eat any raw, or green meat whileft he Ihall be kept in Noccoeat 

 the Stable, for that fuch diet doth beset many bad humours '"^'^' or 

 oppugnant to nature i as Feavers, Surfets, Yellowes, Stavers, ^J^JJ" 

 Anticors, Morfounding, and the like ^ all which will debili- 

 tate Nature, and endanger the breeding of many defperate 

 difeafes •■, to the peril as well of the Horlcs life, as health, if 

 extraordinary care be not had (by way of prevention) in very 

 good time, by the diligence of an Expert Ferrier, 



The tenth caufe of health and long life, is, by keeping your i©- 

 Horfe from meat and drink whilft he is hot \ for that doth ^P"°^^jJ 

 weaken the heart andfpirits^ it is an enemy to the Appetite and j^J^'j^ 

 .digeflion, engendrcth OppilationsandObftrudions, corrupt- 



• eth and pntrifieth the blood, breedcth Feavers, and many o- 

 tiier maladies, as is very often the occafion of fuddain death. 



The eleventh caufe of health and long life is, to be very pre- 1 1 . 



cife, that you do not permit your Horfe to be walked or wafh- Not ro be 

 -cd after labour or tiavel, if in his travel he hath been heated, ^^a'keJor 

 :but prelcntly after you difmount him, let him be led into the ^^^'^^'^• 



Stable, well littered, warm cloathed, painfully rubbed and 

 ; dried i but hereof I have fpoken fufficiently in the fixth caufe, 

 -and elfewhere. 



3C The twelfth and lafl: caufe ofhealth and long life is to ufc 12! 

 VXometimes to put andmix. with his Provender certain powders. To mix 

 :imz. the Powder of Anniieedsand of LicorisjOr of Fenugreek, ^^rram 

 i Turmcrick, Bay-berries or Brimllone, white Lilly roots fraali I^.^^'Ji^^v 



chopped, Enulacampane nx)ts, if green and newly gathered, ivovc-n' 



otherwife dried and beaten %o fine powder, or the roots of du\ 



• Polypodium of the Oke or its powder, Savin, Marili- Mallows, 

 Rue, Hyllbp, Hore-hound, or Colts foot : thefe either fmall 



: chopped if you give them green,orelle dried and given in pow- 



jder, which Simples will keep him found and in perfecl: health, 



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