1G36.] THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. 185 



had much leisure, in my soHtary Country Life, to recol- 

 lect my Thoughts, and try new Experiments about 

 that Art ; I now, for the more particular Satisfaction 

 of my Country-men, Print this second Book in 

 English, which being neither a Translation of the 

 first, nor an absolutely necessary Addition to it, 

 may be of use itself, without the other, as the other 

 hath been hitherto, and is still, without this ; but 

 both together will questionlessly do best." 



He mentions how, during his residence in Ant- 

 werp, he had the honour to receive there visits from 

 many " Noble great Persons, who did him the 

 honour to see his manage," * among whom Don John 

 of Austria, accompanied by Lord Bristol, " many 

 noblemen of Flanders, as the Duke of Ascot," is 

 mentioned as having been attracted to see his horses 

 and his exemplification of equitation. This sdance 

 excited the admiration of the beholders, one of whom 

 declared that his grace's horses were such " that they 

 wanted nothing of reasonable creatures but speaking." 

 When assured by the Marquis of Seralvo what horse 

 he admired most, the duke replied, " There were Good 



* Manage, from the French inenager, to carry on, to conduct ; hence 

 a careful housewife is called " a good manager," and a careless one 

 " a bad manager." Manage, as applied to horses, signifies the graceful 

 government of a horse. Shakespeare has — 



" Speak terms of manage to the bounding steed," 

 and Young has — 



" They vault from hunters to the managed steed." 



Sir John Beaumont, in an ode on the birth of Charles VilHers, Earl of 

 Coventry, first son of George, Duke of Buckingham, who died an infant, 

 March 17, 1627 — 



" To courtly dancing now he should decline, 

 To 7nanage horses, and in arms to shine ! " 



