204 TheQompleai Horjc^msif?^ CHAP. VJ. 



wliich he will often do, but principally when you give him ri- 

 ding or excrcife, and the flower they beat, the older and more 

 dangerous the diieafe is ^ he will alio draw his jv/W fliort, he 

 ■will groan oft, but m oft in lying down, and riling up, and be 

 .rery fearful and loth to cough. The cure is, > 



Take Tartar made of white Wine Lees, which you may have 

 of tl.e Apothecaries^ or if you pleale you may make it your felf. 

 ^ (Rorit is none other thing than the thickeft of the Lees of 

 white Wine well dried and made into powder.) Take (I fay) of 

 this one ounce and a half, of liyflbp andofCoits-foot, of each 

 half a handful, of Hore-hound one handful, of Elecampane 

 in fine powder, Annileeds, and Licoris, of each one ounce, of 

 brown Sugar-candy four ounces, boil all thefe together in good 

 Ale one quart, and when it is half boiled, put into it of HviTop 

 water, and of Colts- foot water, both twice diftilled, to take 

 ofFtheir crudities, of each one pint, and fo boil all again toge- 

 ther, and then ftrain it, and give it your Horfe blood warm. 

 ■^^"^ If your Horfe hath been exercifed, being foul, or having 

 been in diet ,' then he hath been over-much ufed to Cly- 

 fters, Drinks, Rakings, Purgations, Sweats, Vomits, and the 

 like-, give him this drink then, and you fhaUfinditto bemoft 

 fovereign for him, and the cleaner he is within, the better is 

 its operation, and will work more kindly in his body^ and at 

 what times you are to Tilt, Hunt, Travel, or exercife him, 

 give him but one pint of this drink in the morning falling be- 

 fore his going forth, for it will fo help his breathy whereby 

 (through moderate exercife) he will be much the better able 

 to go through with his work, than otherwife he could have 

 done. *^"^ And this drink I have often proved, Alfo if you do 

 find him to be either difeafed,- or fick in his Inn^s^ or that they 

 beany way fretized, then give him this drink. 



Take of tried Hogs greafe two ounces, and of Diapente three 

 fpoonfuls, put thele into a quart of water, wherein Early hath 

 been boiled till it burft, and warm it in the fire till the Hogs 

 greafe bediffolvedi and fo blood warm give it your fick Horfe,*' 

 and three hours after give him oftheBarly warm toeat, and '■ 

 either fweet mafhes or white water to drink. "^^^ This was 

 taught me by an Italian Rider in ■ Varis^ and I have often made 

 life thereof, and have found k to be fpecial good,, howbei-t for 



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