160 SHAKESPEARE’S [ HORSE. 
and to drink troublous and thick water, and if the water 
be clear, the horse stampeth and stirreth it with his foot 
to make it thick. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 39. 
I knew two [scholars] hired for ten groats apiece to say 
service on Sunday, and that’s no more than a post Horse 
from hence [i.e., from Rochester] to Canterbury [= 26 
miles]. Lill, “Mother Bombie,” iv. 1. 
[Bur in the time of the plague (1625) Horse-hire was 
dear :] ‘‘Coach-men ride a cock-horse and are so full of 
jadish tricks that you cannot be jolted six miles from 
London under 30 or 40 shillings.” 
Dekker, “ A Rod for Run-aways (Epistle to the Reader). 
[Horse-feed cost sixpence a day in Middleton’s time 
(“ Phoenix,” i. 4, 35).] 
[Ten pounds was a great price for a Horse («f Dekker’s 
“Seven Deadly Sins”); and from the same author's “ Bellman 
of London” we find that sales of Horses were registered in a 
toll-book. In the same tract is an account of “ Horse-priggers” 
and ‘* Horse-coursers,” of -whose tricks more is said in “ Lan- 
thorn and Candlelight,” as well as of the cheating of hostlers, 
and of the sale of Horses at Smithfield. 
In Ruggles’ “Ignoramus” (First Prologue) a list of the 
favourite Race-Horses in 1614-15 is given. 
Sir Thos. Browne devotes a whole chapter of his ‘“ Vulgar 
Errors” to a refutation of the fallacies that Horses have no 
gall, and that, if they have gall, jt is venomous.] 
Ir is said that if Horses be shod with that iron, where- 
with one hath been before killed, it makes the same 
Horses very lively and quick. And if of the same you 
make a bit or a snafHe, that Horse that hath it in his 
mouth will. be made tame and easy to be handled, yea, 
though he be never so wild, stubborn, or given to biting. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. vit. § 97. 
In the heart of Horses there is found a bone most like 
unto a dog’s tooth; it is said that’ this doth drive away 
all grief or sorrow from a man’s heart, and that a tooth 
being pulled from the cheeks or jaw -bones of a dead 
