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 ...

AN EPITOMY OF HORSE-MANSHIP.

In all Ayres you must Help with the Outward Reyn.

FIrst for Corvets; you must Help with the outward Reyn, and if the Horse be not on the Hanches enough, you must Soutenir more, not give him a time, but hold him up more upon the Hands: And if his Croup go Out, you must put your outward Legg a little to him; and if he put his Croup In too much, you must put your inward Legg a little to him, and turn your Hand a little more, just over his Neck, and only turn it up, but not within his Neck.

You must help with the outward Reyn to bring In his outward Shoulder; for if that did not come In, he could not Turn upon Voltoes; and so his Croup is a little at Liberty, which makes him go the easier, freer, and at more Liberty to go straight for∣ward.

To go Byas, on either Hand, you must still help with the outward Reyn, and Soutenir; that is, hold him up, without giving him a time: For, the Horse gives himself a time better than you can, and you must help with the outward Legg; that is, Legg and Reyn of a side, but both on the outside still.

To make him go Back in Corvets, use the out∣ward Reyn; but here you must give him a time with your Hand every cadance that he makes, and your Hand closer to your Body; not to pull him Back, but to give him a time; and as he Falls, that time is to be a little Back, but not above a Straw breadth: Let your Body be a little Forward, your Leggs a little Back, and Sit not too Strong.