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Upright and clean fashioned ; " his head is small, lean, 

 and slender ; his nostril (if he be angered) wonderfully 

 wide ; his eyes like fire, ready to leap out of his head ; 

 his ears sharp, small, and somewhat long ; his crest 

 high, thin, and firm ; his back short, " his chyn a hand- 

 full broad and more ; " his buttock long, upright, and 

 clean ; the stern of his tail " well nie so small as a 

 mans finger, but in strength beyond any other Horse." 

 His legs are small and clean, having no hair on the 

 fetlock ; his body slender and round ; " in brief, his 

 cote in general is so fine, that it is not possible 

 almost in any part of him but his mane and tail, to 

 catch hold to pull off one hair." This Arabian, which 

 was at this time under our author's charge, was a most 

 delicate bay, " whom if you view in the Sunne," you 

 would judge him either like changeable satin or cloth of 

 gold. This stallion is peerless, " for he hath in him the 

 purity and vertue of all other Horses." " They be so 

 excellent for trauaile," he continues, " that this Arabian 

 (of which I haue the ryding) being trauaild from a 

 parte of Arabia called Angelica to Constantinople, 

 and from thence to the highermost partes of Germanic 

 by lande, and so by Sea to England, yet was he so 

 couragious and lively (hauing no fflesh on his backe) 

 that by no meanes hee coulde bee ruled." Pass- 

 ing from this somewhat ambiguous sentence to the 

 following one, touching the proper time to cover 

 the mares with this peerless stallion, he recommends 

 the period most desirable to be that between mid- 

 March and mid-May, " when the moon had newly 

 changed." 



