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CHAP. 171. How to make a horse that tires, or is restife, to goe forward.

IF your horse (as it is the common nature of iades) through the naughtines••e of his nature, or dulnes••e of spirit, be either ••o restife, or so tired that hee will not goe forward a foote, but standeth stocke still; you shall then make a running suickle of a small cord, and put it about his coddes, and stones in such sort that it may not slippe: then you shall draw the rest of the cord betweene the girths and the horses body, and bringing it vp betweene the horses forelegges, be sure to hold the end of the cord in your hand as you sit in the saddle: then ride the horse forward, and when he beginneth to grow restife, or to stand still, then plucke the cord, and crampe him by the stones, and you shall see that immediatly hee will goe forward: and in this manner you shall vse him for at least a fort-night, and it will cleane take away that euill quality.