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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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 ...
Author
Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.
Publication
London :: Printed by Tho. Milbourn,
1667.
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Horses -- Grooming.
Horsemanship -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53074.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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OF THE Working with the Outward Rein of the Bridle.

NOw let us Consider the Working with the Outward Rein of the Bridle, What Ope∣ration that hath on the Barrs, Curb, and Cheeks; Which Cheeks Governs Barrs and Curb: As for Example; Going on the Right Hand, I turn my Hand on the Inside of his Neck, this pulls the Outward Rein; pulling the Outward Rein, pulls the Outward Cheek to me; then of Necessity it

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must put the Mouth of the Bitt From me, and Presses the Horse on the Outside of the Barrs, which is on the Outside of the Turn, and so pres∣ses him on the Out-side of the Curb, and so the Horse must Look on the Outside of the Turn; and all this is, Because the Cheeks are pull'd to you on the Outside; therefore the Mouth of the Bitt must go From you; still Contrary, and never Fails, nor Cannot: For, it is impossible it should work Otherwise; but it is True, That it Supples, and brings in his Shoulders. The Reason is this, The Horses Leggs are Prest on the Inside of the Turn, and then he must needs bring in his Shoulders, though he is Prest to Look Out of the Turn. The same Thing is for the Left Hand, and the same Reasons for every Thing, working with the Outward Rein of the Bridle. Thus the Bitt and Reins are truly Anatomized, which never was be∣fore: The Outward Rein doth Well for the Piroite, and so for Demy-Voltoes upon Passadoes.

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