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time after, he brought him to the Gentleman that did own him, 

 when upon his coming home the Nag drooped, forfook his meat, 

 and became very fick '■, the Gentleman defired me to endeavour the 

 beft I might for his recovery, for that he loved the Nag well. 

 I ignorant of the caufe of his Malady, went as 1 thought accor- 

 ding to Art, I took blood from fundry veins^ I gave him a Su^po- 

 ptory^ and after c^xlTiinClyfiers^ which I affured me were m oft 

 needful for him : all that 1 did adminilter wrought very kind- Jon- 

 ly and well, but yet nothing could provoke in him an appe- f'^fr^P"i«-'i 

 tite, or be the means of any amendment, I then allayed him 

 with fridions, and Cordials, but all was call away: airing or 

 ought elfs would not prevail \ then Iperfwadcd the Cemieman 

 to turn him to grafs, it being in the middle oi May-, and a ve- 

 ry feafonable time, fori found him to be inwardly found, he > 

 ran at grafs about a moneth, butftill grew weaker, and every 

 day more meager than other, and at length he grew to be fo 

 much infcebled by continual languiihing as that being down, 

 he w^s not able to rile, but with help, in fine, Ihortly after 

 the Nag dyed j then for my better experience I would needs 

 have him opened, which being done ^ a founder Wjy in a Horlc 

 could not befeen, but I difcovered the caufe of tiiedileafc and 

 death of this Nag in his Ji^«„ .for it being taken from him you 

 might moll evidently fee xkiz^at which did lie next unto his 

 belly-, brisket^ ribs, 2i?Afides^ tobefo caked and hard, as that it 

 not being diflblved, the A^^^ could never after enjoy himlelf, 

 which cauled him to wade and dwindle of his/^j^, and lan- 

 guiihing die •, which fo fbon as lefpied, I prefently told the 

 Gentleman-, the owner of the Nag^ that the Ambler hzd given 

 him that Infirmity (the iV^^ being then very fat) and after in 

 his heat put him into the water, v/hichthe owner examining 

 found to be raoft true, as well from the report of honefl; neigh- 

 bours who lived adjacent to the^^^/^r,as(after fomefmall preP 

 fure from the ingenuous confeffion of the very Ambler. Kim^tlt 

 And this I think fit to bring you for an inftance> to the end you 

 . may be the more careful in avoiding the like inconvenience, and 

 be the better able to judge of a Malady of tliis nature. But now 

 as touching the beft cure for ^Confimftian otthQ fiefl} (albeit 

 there be many) yet I can recommend but only this one, which 

 both Mailer Blnndevile^ and M.zf}:Qr Markham have recorded,'' 

 which is this, wx.. 2 2 Take- 



