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retoire, cannel, nail,ilub, ftone or gravel. And thus have I dif- 

 coveredunto you ail the feveral forts which caufeth zHorfe 

 to halt before, and how to know and diftbgailh the places 

 grieved , together with the occalion of every particular 

 grief. It followeth that we difcufs yet further the means 

 how to dillinguifli an old grief, from a new taken ftrain or 

 hurt, which without anexad fcmtiny, cannot eafily be dif- 

 covered, for oft times a horfe hath gotten a flrain, for which 

 he is prefently turned to Grafs, where peradrentare he runs 

 . the whole Summer, and fo by that means feemeth to go up- 

 right, till he be heated and flrained a new, and then will it 

 appear again, howbeit upon his firll riding it may not ap- 

 pear : You have therefore three ways whereby to find out 

 his lamenefs, in what/oy.^/-, limh^ or tnemberoi the ^o^foever 

 it lieth. I . The firft way is to take him out of the Stable, 

 and to caufe him to be turned at the halters end on either 

 hand fuddenly and fvviftly upon as hard a way as you can 

 pick out, and if he have any ach, wrench, or grief in his 

 Fore-fans^ it will appear, for that when he fhall turn upon 

 that hand in whick the grief is, you fhall perceive him to 

 favour that legg^ and fo likewife run both towards you and 

 from you, efpecially down a little yielding hill, and if lie 

 have any imperfection, he will foon (hew it, for that he will 

 favour that legg wherein the grief refideth ^ but if you be not 

 able to find out his lamenefs this way. 2. Then your fe- 

 cond way mult be for you to take his back,^ and to ride him 

 out a good round trot or pace a full hour, or fo long until 

 fuch time as you have throughly heat him, then fet him up, 

 and let him ftand quiet two or three hours, and then either 

 take his back again, or elfe turn him at the halters end as be- 

 fore, and by thus doing, you may difcover the leail grief 

 that may be in him, efpecially v; hen you thus ftir him, if it 

 be done upon any Itony or hard ground, for then he can nei- 

 ther will nor choofe, but either to favour the member grie- 

 ved, or elfe to halt right down. 3 . A third way we have, and 

 that is, to know whether the grief doth proceed from a hot 

 or cold caufe, for if it proceed from a hot caufe, then will 

 the Horfe halt moxl when he is hot, and in the midftof his 

 ' travel j but if it be of a cold caufe, then will he halt leaft 



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