132 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



any thynge ado in the citie, I go about it, & 

 take it for a walke. And if I haue no matter of 

 great importance to do within the citye, my page 

 bryngeth my horse afore in to the fieldes, and so 

 I take the way to my groud for a walke, better 

 parauenture, than if I dyd walke in the galeries 

 and walking places of the citie. And whan I 

 come to my grounde, and if my tenantes be eyther 

 settynge of trees, or tyllyng or renewyng the 

 grounde, or sowynge, or caryenge of the fruite, I 

 beholde howe euerye thynge is done, and caste in 

 my mynde, how I might do it better. And after- 

 warde for the moste parte, I gette me a horsebacke 

 and ride as nere as I can, as though I were in 

 warre constrayned to do the same, wherefore I do 

 not spare nother croked wayes, nor noo shroude 

 goinges up, no ditches, waters, hedges, nor 

 trenches, takynge hede for al that, as nere as can 

 be possible, that in this doing, I do not maime 

 my horse. And wha I haue thus doone, the page 

 leadethe the horse trottynge home agayne, and 

 caryeth home with him into the citie, out of the 

 cotre that that we haue nede of. And so than I 

 get me home againe, somtimes walkyng, and 

 sometime runnynge. Than I wasshe my handes, 

 and so go to dyner good Soc. the which is or- 

 deyned betwene bothe, soo that I abyde all the 

 daye nother voyde nor yet to ful." 



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