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ger then a Fretich Walnut^ andfo keep them clofc Hopped in a 

 glafs or gaily pot, for they will laft good the whole year, 

 and when you Ihall have occajfion to ufe them, take forth one, 

 and anoint it all over with fweet Butter, and fo give it your 

 h'rfe^ and continue thus to/do every morning one, for fome 

 time, and ride him a little after the taking thereof gently, if 

 the weather be temperate, and let him fuand upon the Snaffle 

 or trench three hours after, then feed him, and at night you 

 may either give him a Mafli, or white water. "^^-^ And thus 

 do ( if it be to prevent ficknefs ) three or four mornings to- 

 gether, but if it be to take away any infirmity, as Cold, Glan- 

 ders, or thelike,thenadminifter it eight or ten days together 

 at the leaft, but if it be to cleanfe his body from molten-grcAfe^ 

 or to take away f6ulnefs,then give it him either in his heat,or 

 prefently after-, but if it be to make him fat being meager, 

 poor, and lean, then ufe it fifteen days at the leall. If you 

 ihall find any difficulty in the giving of this pill, you may then 

 at your pleafure diffolveit either into fweet Wine,or q\Iq into 

 good Ale or Beer, and fo give it him with a horn drench- wife. 

 %"^ The other fill is, 



jTake of Wheat-flower one pound, or fo much as fhall fuf- 

 fice to make a ftifFpafle, then take of Annifeeds, Fenugreek, 

 Brimltone, of each two ounces, Sallet-oyl one pint, common 

 honey one pound and a half, white- Wine two quai'ts j make 

 the hard fimples into fine Powder, and fear ce them, then with 

 the refidue make a ftiflr pafte, and of this pall make a fiUthz 

 bignefs of a mans fift, and diflblve it into two or three gal- 

 lons of fair water , by wafhing and laving the fame pafte 

 therein with your hands, and fo let your Wye drink the fame 

 at his ordinary watering times, or at any other time, when 

 he is willing to drink, for he cannot take too much of this 

 water,then ride him to warm it in his k//y,but not otherwifc, 

 and when the water is fpent, do not calt away the bottom, 

 but fiiling again the veflel wherein he drinketh, with frefii wa- 

 ter, the next time he drinketh diflblve another ball therein, 

 and thus do for fifteen days together, at leall, and you fliall 

 fee fome wonderful effeds thereof. This water fcowreth, 

 cleanfeth, and feedeth after an admirable manner, and the 

 former lefl^er fills do porge thcftomdch and entrals from all 



foulnefs^ 



