Horse tamed by Gain. 
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“ Look, when a painter would surpass the life, 
In limning out a well-proportion’d steed, 
His art with nature’s workmanship at strife, 
As if the dead the living should exceed; 
So did this horse excel a common one 
In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and hone. 
“ Kound-hoof’d, short-jointed, fetlock shag and long, 
Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostrils wide, 
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, 
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : 
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, 
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.” 
( Venus and Adonis , 11. 289-300.) 
Du Bartas, in his sacred history of the world, tells how 
Cain, when preparing to found a new habitation and a 
colony, turns for assistance to animals, as human beings 
are scarce. The troops of wild horses bounding across 
the plains attract his attention, and— 
“ Among a hundred brave, light, lusty horses 
(With curious eye marking their comly forces,) 
He chooseth one for his industrious proof, 
With round, high, hollow, smooth, brown, jetty hoof. 
With pasterns short, upright, but yet in mean; 
Dry sinewy shanks ; strong, flesh-less knees, and lean; 
With hart-like legs, broad brest, and large behinde, 
With body large, smooth flanks, and double-chin’d ; 
A crested neck bow’d like a half-bent bowe, 
Whereon a long, thin, curled mane doth flowe ; 
A firm full tail, touching the lowly ground. 
With dock between two fair fat buttocks drownd; 
A pricked ear, that rests as little space, 
As his light foot; a lean, bare, bonny face, 
Thin joule, and head but of a middle size, 
Full, lively-flaming, quickly rowling eyes, 
Great foaming mouth, hot-fuming nostrill wide, 
Of chest-nut hair, his fore-head starrifi’d, 
Three milky feet, a feather on his brest, 
Whom seven-years-old at the next grass he ghest.” 
(Divine Weekes and Workes, p. 106.) 
This description would better apply to a horse competing 
