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 ...

OF A RESTY HORSE.

A Resty Horse is he that will not go Forward; the Way then is, To pull him Backwards, and then he will go Forwards: It seldom Fails; but if it do Fail, then use your Spurs to the pur∣pose; and though he Rebels a great while, the Spurs will perswade him at last, being the best Argument you can use to him, if they be given Sharply, (soundly, and in time) and are continued until he doth Yeeld, which certainly he will do at last; for this Remedy never fails; all other Re∣medies are Foolish; you were as good Apply Rose Water and Sugar-Candy to him: Therefore the Spurs does the Business. For all our Old Writers were mightily deceived in it.

For a Horse that is Retenu, Paresus, or Contre-Coeur, which is all but a spice of Restiness, be sure to use the Spurs.

For a Horse that Falls down upon the Ground, or in the Water; Bites, or Strikes; nothing bet∣ter

than the Spurs. But I must tell you, for Vitious Horses, that indangers the Company by Biteing, and Striking, there is no better way than to Geld them; for that will Cure them, or nothing. But I assure you, that Vitious Horses are very hardly Recovered, or never; so dangerous a thing it is to have such a Jade, and the Worst, if he be Spoil'd by an Ignorant Rider: And more Horses are Spoil'd by ill Riding, and are made Vitious, than by Nature.