72 Tk'Cowplcat Eorfcmatf^ CHAP. Ill: 



his abiding in and about the Heart^Phlegm in the Brain-, Chief 

 in the Liver^ and Melancholy in the Spleen^ whereby we may 

 the better come to know what Complexion reigneth in every 

 Horfe, as alfo how he is naturally qualified and difpofed j for 

 the Horfe that is of a Sanguine C omplcxi^n hcomw.onl'j a Bright 

 Bay, who is of difpofition jovial, wanton, or merry, agile, and 

 of motion temperate, neither too fiery, nor too dull or Me- 

 lancholy i Your A'/rV/,' white is o^ Complexion Phkgmatie^He, whole 

 property commonly is to be blunt, heavy and flow •, Your 

 ^r/^fef-Sorre/ hath commonly reference to Choler-^ and he is na- 

 turally for the moll; f)art fiery, hot, and ever free-mettled, but 

 yet of no great ilrength •• Your Monfe-Dnn and fuch like rufty 

 and foot- colours are commonly of a MeUncho'y Complexion^ and 

 they be ordinary, cowardly faint hearted, fubjed to ftarting, 

 llothful, reflife, ftubborn, difobedient, revengeful, &c. but 

 if thefe Complexions be rightly fymbolized, and do all meet in 

 one and the fame Horfe^ according to each ones proper nature, 

 they do perform their fundlions as they ought in a perfed har- 

 mony, whereby the Horfe remairieth found and healthy i but 

 if there be difcord or difagreement in the Elements and Hu- 

 mours, there muft be the like in the Complexions^ and then doth 

 the poor Horje fuffer for ic to the danger both of Life and 

 Health. 



Hipppphilus. ./ ever underflood that there are certain Spirits 

 • which do remain in the Bodv of every Horlc : do you know them 



Hippoferus. • ,^j^,_ .,>,.:.^\.,, . ,^ - ^ 



Hippoferus. Yes, I do ^ and they be faid to be two in number, 

 Spirit A.- "viz., V\\t Spirit j4mmal^ and the spirit Fital'^ the Spirit Animal 

 iiimal. iiath its reiidence in tht Brain ^ by which means it giveth mo- 

 tion, feeling, and power to the //oj/f, thrbugh the aid of this 

 Spirit \Sin,ews. ; and th? pir it Vital nY<i)^Q.S abode in the Hearty which is 

 Vital. the only caufe'cf^'the excefTive heat thereof, which difperfeth 

 the Blood, into every part and member of the Body For the 

 Heart and the Brain are in equality abfolutely different, the 

 //f.2?-/ being moft violently hot, (as I have before Ihewed) and 

 the Brain is as extreamly cp|d : and fo hereof needs not a.ny 

 more be fpokenin this place; '^ ' "^ 



Hippophilus, But may not a man conje^ure to what infirmities 

 or difeafes Horfes may probably be fnbjtB by their Complexion? * 



HippoferHS. 



