Of the falling of the Crest.
THe falling of the Crest is occasioned most commonly through poverty; yet sometimes I have seen it chance thorugh the ill proportion of the Crest, which being high, thick and heavy, the * 1.1 neck thin and weak underneath, is not able to support or sustain it up, however it be, there is remedy for both: if it proceed of poverty, first try by good keeping to get it up again, but if it will not rise, or that the original of the disease be in the ill fashion of the Crest, then let this be the cure, First with your hand raise up the Crest as you would have it stand, or rather more to that side from which it declineth, then take up the skin between your fingers on that side from which the Crest swarveth, and with a sharp knife cut away the breadth of very near an inch, and the length of four inches; which done, stitch up the skin together again with three or four stitches, and by means of strings, weights, or other devises, keep the Crest perforce on that side, applying thereunto a plaister of Deers sewet and Turpentine, boiled together, till the sore be healed; and at the self same instant that by this manner of insition you draw together and straiten the skin on that side, you shall in this sort give liberty to the other side, whereby the Crest may the easier attain to his place; Take a hot iron made in fashion of a knife, the edge being a quarter of an inch broad, and therewith from the upper part of his Crest unto the neather part of the same extending towards his shoulder, draw three lines in this forme and the same anoint dayly with fresh Butter, untill such time as it be perfectly whole. By this manner of cure, you may make any lave-ear'd Horse, to be as prick-ear'd and comely, as any other Horse whatsoever.