The perfect horseman, or, The experienced secrets of Mr. Markham's fifty years practice shewing how a man may come to be a general horseman, by the knowledge of these seven offices, viz. the breeder, feeder, ambler, rider, keeper, buyer, farrier
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637., Thetford, Lancelot.
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The setting on of his Head, his Crest and Mane.

After this, stand by his side, and first look o the setting on of his head, and see that i stand neither too high nor too low, but in direct line, and that his neck be small at the setting on of the head, and long, grow∣ing deeper to the shoulders, with an high ••rong and thin mane, long, soft and some∣what curling; for these are beautifulll cha∣racters: whereas to have the head ill set on, is the greatest deformity, to have any big∣ness or swelling in the nape of the neck, shews the Poul-evill, or beginning of a Fi∣stula; to have a short thick neck like a Bull, to have it falling at the withers, to have a low, weak, a thick, or falling crest, shews want both of strength and metall: to have much hair on the mane, sheweth intolera∣ble dulness; to have it too thin, shews fury; and to have none, or shed, shews the worm in the mane, the itch, or else plain Mangi∣ness.