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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Title
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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Subject terms
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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Page 325

OF TERRA A TERRA.

HEre you are to use the inward Reyn, for now you must keep the outward Shoulder Back, and give his inward Shoulder Liberty, that he may look into the Turn, rest upon his outward Leggs, and his inward Leggs at Liberty, which you may know by his Neck leaning on the outside.

You must know, that the outward Reyn brings In his outward Shoulder, presses him on the Inside, and gives his outward Leggs liberty, and so his Croup goes a little out.

Use the outward Reyn in Passager; for, if his outward Shoulder comes not In, How shall he lap one Legg over another, which they call Incavelar in Italian, and Passager in French?

Now, whatsoever makes his Croup go out upon a Trot, or Gallop large, it works his Shoul∣ders; so his Croup going out (Legg and Reyn on a side) works his Shoulders, because his inward Legg goes out as upon Large Circles, his inward Legg being wrought: This working his Shoulders

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is an excellent thing for a Young Horse, or an ignorant Horse at first; for without his Shoulders be Supple, he shall never go: Besides, it keeps him from being Entier, or have the Credenza, which is, Resty in Turning, and is the worst Vice a Horse can have.

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