HORSE. | NATURAL HISTORY. 161 
Horse doth shew the full and right number of the sorrows 
of the party so grieved. If swords, knives, or the points 
of spears when they are red fire hot, be anointed. with the 
sweat of a horse, they will be so venomous and full of 
poison, that if a man or woman be smitten or pricked 
therewith, they will never cease from bleeding as long as 
life doth last. Topsell, ‘Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 337-8. 
Tue tooth of a yearling colt laid on the neck of a 
baby, makes its teeth come without pain. 
Albertus Magnus, “Of the Wonders of the Wonld.” 
Tue tooth of a mare placed on the head of a raving 
madman straightway frees him. Ibid. 
Tue hoof of a Horse burnt in a house drives away 
mice. The same with the hoof of a mule. Ibid. 
Tue Londoners pronounce woe to him that buys a 
Horse in Smithfield, that takes a servant in Paul’s Church, 
‘that marries a wife out of Westminster. 
Fynes Moryson, “Itinerary,” part ili, p. 53. 
Cf. ii. Kinc Henry IV., i. 2. 
Our Horses moreover are high, and although not com- 
monly of such huge greatness as in other places of the 
main, yet if you respect the easiness of their pace, it is 
hard to say where their like are to be had. Such as serve 
for the saddle are now grown to be very dear among us. 
There is no greater deceit used anywhere than among our 
Horse-keepers, Horse-coursers and ostlers. There are cer- 
tain notable markets, wherein great plenty of Horses and 
colts is bought and sold, as Ripon, Newport Pond, Wolf- 
pit, Harborough and divers other. But as most drovers 
are very diligent to bring store of these unto those places, 
so many of them are too lewd in abusing such as buy 
them. For they have a custom to make them look fair to 
the eye, — when they come within two days’ journey of 
the market, to drive them till they sweat, and for the 
space of 8 or 12 hours, which being done, they turn them 
all over the backs into some water, where they stand for 
a season, and then go forward with them to the place 
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