A new method, and extraordinary invention, to dress horses, and work them according to nature as also, to perfect nature by the subtility of art, which was never found out, but by ... William Cavendishe ...

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IF a Horse goes Forward too much, pull him Back; if he goes Back, put him Forward; if if he goes Side-ways on the Right-Hand, put him Side-ways on the Left-Hand; if he goes Side-ways on the Left-Hand, put him Side-ways on the Right-Hand. If he puts Out his Croup, put it In; if he puts In his Croup, put it Out. If he goes on the Shoulders, stop him, and pull him Back; if he goes on the Hanches, continue him so; if he Rises when you would not have him, keep him Down. All this upon a Walk; for thus he must Attend both your Hand and your Heel, and follow your Will, and so of Necessity must Obey you, because thus he is put from his Will, to Yours. And this must make him a perfect Horse; It is a most Excellent Lesson.

Never put a Horse upon any Ayre, nor

Press him much, until you find him very Sen∣sible, and Obedient, both to your Hand, and to your Heel; and extreamly Supple: But Young Horses must never be much Prest, nor Stopt too hard; for if you do, you will give them such a Crick, and Taint in their Back, as they will never Recover it.

The Horse's Head to the Pillar, (or an Ima∣ginary Center) the Pillar without his Head; and the Horse's Croup to the Pillar, the Pillar on the Inside of his Croup. And thus the Horse shall ne∣ver be Entier.

I never Work a Horse's Head to the Pillar, (Legg and Reyn contrary;) because his inward Hinder-Legg goes so much before his Shoulder, which is False; but Legg and Reyn on a side, as I shewed you before.

To Work a Horse upon Quarters, is to no purpose; for, it Confounds a Horse more, than a whole Circle; but upon Demy-Voltoes, or half Turns, is very good somtimes.

To put a Horse Byas on one Hand, and then put him Forward; and then put him Byas on the

other Hand, and then put him Forward; and so from Hand to Hand; and Forward, makes him Attend, and Obey both the Hand, and the Heel, and is an Excellent Lesson: But, as you put him Byas, his Fore-parts must al∣wayes go before his Hinder-parts.

There is no Lesson comparable to Passager, his Croup In, to make him Obey the Hand, and the Heel; and to Raise him in Passadoes, and Passager him again, still Raising and Passager; and if you find he is not upon the Hanches, then Walk, or Trott him upon Large Circles, and Stop him Hard, and Raise him. All these Les∣sons are upon a Walk, and Passager; therefore you may see what a Rare thing Walking, and Passager is, to Make, and Dress all Horses per∣fectly.

Nay, when a Horse is a perfect Drest Horse, you must not make him go above Once a Week at the most, but Work him every Day upon his Trott, Gallop, Passager, Raising of him, and Tuning of him Thus, and with the Ca∣vezone, he will go Rarely, when you would

make him go upon any Ayre, or Terra a Terra. I say, a Horse is thus to be Tuned; for, a Horse having Four Leggs, is like a Fiddle of Four Strings; and if a Fiddle be not Tuned, the Mu∣sitian can never Play Salengers Round upon it: So, if a Horse's Leggs be not rightly Tuned, he will never Dance his Round right.

Again, if you alwayes Play upon a Fiddle, though Well-Tuned at the first, it will soon be out of Tune by continual Playing on it; so a Ready-Horse, if you make him go perpetually, he will be soon out of Tune; and therefore you must Tune him still, as I have told you.