S8 Cfje of OBlUtejS *, or, 
Ceorgifkj ') Potneitts fed his Horf&s mx\\ ipans 
flefli ; Nero did adorn his Horje with a gown that 
the Senators only wore> and every week allowed 
them fo much ; thus Callg«;la went beyond them 
all, he inviting his Horfes to dinner, and did make 
them drink in goldpn bowls, and would have made 
one of his Hoi^es CohJhI ; as he once ( a mofl hor* 
ridfaft) made himlelf Prieft, and his Horfeh\$ 
afiodate, 1 heoffylaSl, Patriarch of ConPtamino- 
flcy alwayes kept above two thoufand Horfes • 
which he fed not with Hay at.d barley, but with 
Spices, Figs, Raifins, Wine, &c. nay, when at 
any time he was at the Communion,- doing his of- 
fice, if one had come to him and told him that one 
of his Maxes had foaled, he would for joy imme-' 
diately have left oft”, ^een \\\%Mare^ and then 
come again to make an end ; thus Alexanier^\w the 
honour of iiis Pticef haJus^ did ereft a great City ; 
foinall Ages of tne World- great hath been the 
folly and uiadnds of Princes, in taking over- care 
for their Hofes > ai 'd fo we read in Hemery II. 8. 
that the v;\{t ofHt{lor fed her Norj'e as conftant- 
ly, and with the lame dye asfhe did her Husband. 
('enraint fpeaking of the Horfe, hath di- 
gefted, in one Alphabetical order, all thofe proper 
names tha t have been formerly given to Horjes • 
but I fiiall come noiv more particularly to fpeak of 
the nature of ^ 
I, The Horfe is an underftanding, docile Crea- 
ture-. bur efp£:c‘ai}v are thofe that are bred in the 
3 Hands pf the Baltic^ Ses; and thofe that are bred 
in Selmifiay ihougu ima!!, jet ar^ veryftrongt 
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