Of the falling of the Crest.
THis commeth for the most part of pouerty,* 1.1 and specially when a fat Horse falleth a∣way sodainely. The cure according to Martin is thus. Draw his Crest the deepnes a straw, on the contrary side with a hot iron, the edge of which iron would be halfe an inch broad, and make your beginning and ending somewhat beyond the fall, so as the first draught may go all the way hard vppon the edge of the mane, euen vnderneath the [ 40] rootes of the same, bearing your hand right downward, into the neckeward, then answer that with another draught beneath, & so far distant from the first as the fal is broad, com∣passing as it were al the fall, but stil on the contrary side: and betwixt those two draughts right in the midst, draw a third draught, then with a button iron of an inch about, burne at each end a hole, and also in the space betwixt the draughts, make diuers holes distant three fingers broade one from another: that done, to slake the fire annoint it euery day once, for the space of nine daies with a feather dipt in fresh butter moulten. Then take Mallowes and Sage, of each one a handfull, boile them well in running water, and wash the burning away vntill it be raw flesh, then dry it vp with this powder. Take of hony halfe a pinte, and so much vnslect lime as wil make that hony thicke like paast: then hold it in a [ 50] fire-pan ouer the fire vntil it be baked so hard as it may be made in powder, and sprinkle that vpon the sore places.