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jhonlder j and for the better tryal thereof, let your man but 

 turn him fhort on either hand , and in that jhodder where 

 the lamemp is, you (hall perceive him to complain and to 

 yield, for lie will either favour that legg, or trip in the tur- 

 ning : You may alfo find his lamenefs by his Handing in the 

 Stable, for there he will hold forwards his lame legg more 

 then the other, but yet you come not to underftand in what 

 part of the jhoulder the grief lieth ^ wherefore take for an 

 infallible rule, that if he do complain more when a man is 

 upon his W^, then otherwife, when he is from his back, then 

 be confident that the grief lieth in the irifkr^, and gripe him 

 hard, and you fhall perceive him to fhrink, and perhaps offer 

 to bite \ if the horje do tread thick and fhort before, then is 

 the grief upon the pitch of the (honlder clofe to the hreafi^ 

 which you may eafily find by fetting your thumb hard to the 

 place, and by thrufling him with it, as if you would have 

 him to go back, whereat he will fhrink, and put back his 

 ^J"! fio^^ snd body ^ if the grief be in the elbow, you fhall 

 difcover it by pinching him with your Fore-finger and thumb 

 good and hard upon that place, at the domg whereof you 

 fhall perceive him to fhrink and hold up his legg, and to of- 

 fer to bite i and thefe be all the griefs which do lie in the 

 fimlders of the Horfe, which not being vifible, you fhall thus 

 difcover them, as touching thofe griefs which lie lower, they 

 M^hen in thi muR be either, in the knee in the flim, in the pafiern^ or in tkt 

 h(f' foot. If it be in the k?ee^ you (hall find it by his fbifF going, 

 for he will not bend it fo adively as he doth the other, if it 

 ^hmk^ ^^^ ^^ ^" the_^^«)b or Shin-bone, you may both fee and feel the 

 " '^ ^' fame, it being then 2i back finew fprain^ fyhnty or fomefuch 

 H'hen in tht ^^^^ forrance or annoyance j fo likewife if it be in the bend- 

 ■pa^m* ing of the k?ee^ then it is a malender, w^hich is alfo moft eafi- 

 ly defcribed j if it be in the paftern or joym^th^n may y ou know 

 it by his not bending it fo well as the other ^ belides if you 

 put your hand upon the place, you fhall find it to be very 

 hot, and to burn much : Firft if it be in the /oof, it muft then 

 be either in the cronet or in Xhtfole \ if in the cronet, it is then 

 probable it came by fome ftrain or wrench, if in the heel, then 

 it came by fome over-reach, or elfe by fome difeafe in or about 

 the Fp«/fc J if in the fole^ then it came by fome prick, accloy, 



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