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A61674	The vaulting-master, or, The art of vaulting reduced to a method, comprized under certaine rules, illustrated by examples, and now primarily set forth by Will. Stokes.	Stokes, Will.; Glover, George.	1652 (1652)	Wing S5728; ESTC R33653	14,501	69

to Ladies and other courtly feats depend on it besides infinite that practise will meet with which cannot now be thought on One thing more the generally embraced esteeme and communitie thereof it has been loved even of Princes and now is Doe not thou then gentle Reader distaste or neglect an Art so honoured by its Fautors so anciently worthy and so generally necessarie but give it entertainment and love which is that I have endeavoured according to my abilitie to perswade and then I shall thinke thou wantest nothing but a Teacher and not repent that I have made those things publike which were the peculiar rights of a private Schoole And so let us descend to the practice To the Reader On this now and excellent Book called the Vaulting-Master YOu that in wanton silks diseases hide And weare your limbs so loose they scarce can'bide A friends embrace you that are faine each day To bribe your health and keep your life in pay That of your generous youth and Ancestrie Decoction make only to feed lust high That take no paines but on your cloaths or whore And only leap ride vault by metaphore If you yet live can call your selves your owne And have not all i' th' sea of women sowne If when you heare as now the iron Car And brasse hoov'd Steeds of all-consuming war In horrid noyse approach our threatned North You nobly rous'd can re-assume that worth Which heapt-up ryots hide and would assay For man againe would any shew the way Here 's that will soone restore what e're hath bin Impair'd by ease or what more eating sin Here 's that will set your nerves in tune againe And find for each forgotten string a straine Winde up your sickly muscles and refine Th' embased spirits to temper Masculine Here 's that will make a stubbome armour weare Gentle as Persian silks and light as aire And will the way into the saddle find Though th' Horse be high as hils wild as the wind The Easterne Conquerour no doubt had he But knowne this Art without Philosophie Had back'd Bucephalus and got his Crowne By rules our age is blest with then unknowne But why without Philosophie yet all That fils the following leaves so rationall When demonstrations build each page when each Period doth prove and every letter teach When Aristotle liv'd he would adde this To 's thefts and call the Vaulting Master his And is not he well worthy an embrace From time from truth from all the world that has Been fruitfull of an Art that rare-borne thing A sister to the Seven another string T' Apollo's harp and in this age too when Books drop from everie common undipt pen And those too patcht imperfect blind and lame When all still write but diversly the same When only to dispatch Sermons and Playes The Printer 's faine to work on Holy-dayes Yet Sermons but each others meaning shew And Playes are but reviv'd when they are new How're the world determines Oxford will One sheet with his due her due praises fill And would doe more but now his booke 's so neare Such beauties through this veile of praise appeare We busie wantons have before it drawne The fair'st may mask but not be hid in Lawne As when display'd to the discerning eye Will soone out-grow both praise and Poetrie Now turne the leafe o're and expect no lesse Nor longer Only let my last hand dresse My Friend in this becomming Elogie Men could but crawle or swim h' as taught them flie N. H. On the Art of Vaulting THou that hast still liv'd thy owne statue and Hast neither leg nor arme at thy command Being strangely monstrous young and old a man And yet a carcasse whose limbs only can Move like the Dutch-mans Motion everie part Being its owne shackle from the want of Art Who cannot mount a Palfrey unlesse you Have a convenient block and stirrup too Where like a Cripple thou dost bend thy back Sitting upon a saddle as a sack Learne now to wing the body seeme to see Beasts the chiefe masters in activitie Thy soule is Quick-silver while theirs is Lead Compar'd to thine their verie life is dead Hence to be stiffe is to degenerate And wrong the Nobler Powers of thy Fate Thou like the Heav'ns hast an Intelligence Thy motions too like theirs should out-strip Sence What though thou yet hast stood fix'd like a rock As sailes adde swiftnesse to the heaviest block And engines make stones fly so here are taught Rules that can make each limb as quick as thought Thou mayst mount higher by this Authors quill Than Don Gonzado can with all his skill No wals can stop thy passage thou mayst doe More by this Book than Love Feare Hunger too Thou shalt no more live Soloecisms and see A place though lower yet too high for thee This healthfull Art of Vaulting will proclaime Thy body strong though Doctors sweare th' art lame Ladies by this will know th' art none of those Whose tender flesh hangs looser than their cloaths Should some nice Dame hold out as long as Troy And after ten yeares courtship still be coy Unmov'd with Rings and Verses yet her force Can't stand the stratagems of the Wooden Horse ● W. Upon a Book written by Mr. STOKES of the Art of Vaulting TO you we owe skill'd Sir that we now see Endenniz'd here the French agilitie We may be eas'ly nimble now at home Oxford being Mistresse to all Christendome Nor need we take a leap to France or ought Strive to be expert i' th' venereall Vault We shall not over-heat our selves so much That we may straddling walk or need a Crutch This woodden Horse like Balaams learned Asse Can teach his Rider yet not move a pace Nor shall we mount leane Rozinante's brood Though he 's so dry he may be tane for wood We cannot our dull Courser running set Like the swift trav'lling Juggler Pacolet Yet by this active Art Orlando can Leap hedge and ditch without his Barbican And men henceforth ennimbled may detest To owe their journeyes to th' ignobler beast I hate those lumpish Solonists who make Their leaping Helicon a standing Lake Which think 't enough if they vault in their clay And make their Thought their sole Angelica As if you learn't not in your Spheares the Schooles That heavie bodies harbour heavie soules Or that the flaming Fancies soare the higher And that wit pierces most that 's made of fire Nature's become an Art now and each foole May see the world is but one Vaulting Schoole The active bloud doth its Palaestra keep And nimble pulse continually doth leap So issuing oft from crannies wind hath taught The stubborne earth against her will to vault And hath the lazie mountaines bowels rent Both for a precept and a punishment I 'le now leave Plato credit Mandevill When I see th' head so far below the heele What greater Sophistrie can th' Answ'rre feare Than to see Vaulters at once here and there And the dull Optick

G. Glouer fecit Ingeniosa tibi VIVAM manus edidit VMBRAM VERVM HOMINEM MOTVS te probat esse tuus Sed tam motu agili tanta vertiginis arte Extempló spacium te per vtrumque rotas Corpore sub ficto mihi SPIRITVS esse videris Aut Corpus CHYMICÀ SPIRITVALE manu Nullam sentit equus MOLEM tuus impiger omnes Pervolitas partes nec mora pondus habet T. S. THE VAULTING-MASTER OR THE ART OF VAVLTING Reduced to a Method comprized under certaine Rules Illustrated by Examples And Now primarily set forth By VVILL STOKES Xenoph. de magisterio equitum Juniores persuadendi sunt ut in equos insilire discant Laudem verò jure mereberis si quem adhibueris magistrum seu praeceptorem Printed for RICHARD DAVIS in Oxon. 1652. To the truly noble Gentleman Mr. Henry Percy Master of the Horse to the Prince his Highnesse c. Honoured Sir IT is in me a boldnesse I must confesse that deserves not to be pardoned on so small interest to present a Toy a light and undigested Pamphlet to you that are so far above it And yet mee thinks this boldnesse is much more answerable when I consider that you were once pleased during that time in which you were both an Ornament and an Honour to the Uniuersitie to make use of my meane skill and humblest service in this kind and likewise that there is none more able either to protect or judge of what I have written From the first I draw encouragement proper to my selfe in the other I make that encouragement mine which is or ought to be common to all that would make a fit choyce of patronage And on these grounds I have presumed among those many happier and more worthy labors which wait on your Name to place this little one which although as it can never hope so it can never have the happinesse to enjoy that measure of your Sun-shine and so bounteous an eye as those more deserving shall neverthelesse rest content in the conscience of that everlasting service which the Father of it owes Be pleased then most worthy Sir to suffer your Name in the Front of this otherwise poore and defencelesse Book So that by that meanes it becomming acceptable to the world I may not doubt but afterwards it will prove as profitable My last but not my least hopes are that as you loved this Art in your youth and have honour'd it since so you will still advance it and continue your favours to him that is Your most humble Servant WILL STOKES The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader ALthough now a dayes it be little better than paper cast away to entertaine the Reader in the entrance of a Book though with never so necessarie an eloquence since men will not so lose the pleasure and Venerie of envious Censure but hastily run on to banquet their gall with those faults which they will either find or make And although as one sayes well a man had better never write than give an account to everie one of that hee has written Neverthelesse I am determined not to give eare to such a cowardly wisdome lest I incur a double imputation either as not daring to meet with the Detractour or not caring to salute the Ingenious There are some I make no doubt though in other matters sufficiently knowing yet ignorant in this who doe and will dislike the thing it selfe nay the verie name of Vaulting as accounting it an unnecessarie and dangerous exercise a device to breake ones neck or limbs or the like but such when they know more will answer themselves in the meane time their ignorance is a sufficient punishment Another sort there are who are content to allow the thing but will by no meanes have it an Art but rather the child of an accidentall and undigested experience receiving the degrees of its excellencie from blind custome only and difference of bodies It were too long to confute these by reason and likewise unnecessary in this place seeing I have amply shewne it in the following leaves A third sort there are who grant it to be an Art and this Art extraordinarily available in the practice but they will say it is not so accurately handled nor in so exact a method as it deserves To such since it concernes my selfe I ingenuously confesse I have done in it what I was able nor am I such an enemy to the common good as to envie or not rather calmly to suffer my selfe to be cast out before him that can and will performe it better Yet let me comfort my selfe with this truth that all Arts if they bee so handled that they may teach will not admit of that elegancie of word and phrase which though they becommingly dresse yet they dazle the eye of the Reader A fourth sort there are yet behind who I know will wonder whence I amongst all the excellent Professours of this Art both English and forraine should have the confidence to enter upon this Tract which had been worthy of the best of them and first of any I thinke I may safely say so dare expose my selfe under this title to the Presse and publike view This indeed comes neerest me of any but I shall answer and as I thinke beside their expectation that what they account in me a fault and a malapert undertaking I esteeme as my greatest happinesse nor would I change the glorie of being the first that have written with that of having written Since in all mens opinions the first Founders of all Arts and Sciences have beene as honourable as those that have built upon their foundations to the fairest height but enough of this lest I seeme to hug my good fortune even to ostentation which might have beene anothers and perhaps more fit for such a burthen and far more better deserving the honour of precedencie Yet Reader this I will say if happily it may adde any value to mee or this my work although I had rather my work should praise both it selfe and me Thou hast the fruit and observations of almost thirtie yeares and Rules confirmed by daily practice during so long a time if this may adde any thing to the esteeme of my labours so be it For the rest examine the whole piece and thou shalt find Reason embracing Experience thorowout and among reasonable men then how can it misse of its ends viz. the publike good and a just acceptance Nor need the Practitioner complaine of obscuritie as in many other who doe so interlard their writings with the knottie tearmes of Art that they may bee said both to teach and not to teach I have labour'd to avoyd that vice as having seene the uglinesse of it in them Besides the plainnesse of the phrase too wherein everie Passe is drest I have added to each a lively and beautifull Cut that so what is but dead as it were in words may be there seene in motion and to the life the rule and the

Senses scarce perceive When to this side they fly or that they leave If then the strangest Science we most prize To make Even number let 's This canonize And chuse Him Christmasse Aristotle then Who made our hands be guided by his pen That this dead wood reviv'd by common praise May grow once more and bring forth learned Bayes And may its fruits so to the world impart That each new yeare may find out a new Art Stephen Skinner To Mr. STOKES Vpon his new and admirable Booke of the Art of Vaulting THis is no age for Apes although it can Shew many a motley frisking Gentleman False capers and soft cringes that betray Who 's a French Courtier are quite laid away Our Gallants are growne sound th' have learn'd a sport For men of backs and may be lik'd at Court He that can mount the woodden Palfrey best And sit him as Knights Errant doe their beast Descend so quick that you would sweare he flies And were himselfe the Pegasus can rise All the Reverses English French Pomado's The Saddle-jumps intricate Strappado's Hover so lightly the Angelica You 'l think a reall spirit were i' th' play Can stretch his sinews so to jump with ease The Stags long leap the Leap of Hercules Has mettle for each Terme and were they more Than Logick has could doe them all thrice o're He he 's the Man He shall applauded be 'Bove the gay sutes and Tinsell-Poetrie Mark how the Ladies drink to Him alone He mans them out He 's talk'd on too at home All this your Book affoords and your large skill Lies not i' th' back alone but in the Quill He writes best that does teach I like the man Will gaine the world his Scholler if he can Thus Art amends weak Nature Tell me one That e're grew strong by demonstration Nimble by rule before What was good parts Is now growne study and makes up our Arts And you 'll a deed of Benefactour doe To joyne your Schoole to Bodley's Buildings too Richard Godfrey To his friend the Author of this Book and most expert Instructer in this Art NO view of former Tract hereof thy pen Doth guide a vaulter needs no stirrup then Take time from th' ground of this your Art and spring Aboue a rivals aime or envie bring Thy Pegasus in view and let us see Though many vaunt if any'll vault with thee Thy Art I manhood stile for that its use Is man to 's proper motion to reduce Which upward is by stooping low to rise It makes him know humilitie to prize Celestiall exercise whereby men doe Not in affection but in body too Mount up above this earth and triall make Which way their active soules would them betake If loosed from the body so they doe Now but prove practice in the way thereto Toyes scale away and cannot scale so high Each Passe surpasses let th' ambitious try T' attaine this Art he 'll quickly find and say That Vaulting is the only Rising way Jo. Shearman On the Author and his Book HEark hither Gallants you that set no price On any games but only Cards and Dice And think all exercise is course and poore Except to empt the quart and fill your whore I 'le tell you how if you desire to know Your recreation shall a vertue grow And all those houres you us'd to spend in vaine Shall give you health and bring your Countrey gaine Leave off your Carpet-games they well become The Needle or Distaffe not the Sword or Drum And in their place receive this active sport Hatcht first in Mars his not in Venus Court This to your weak'ned limbs will strength restore Making that Brawne that was but Veale before This to refine your bodies humorous bog 'T will prove the covering of your soule not clog This makes you rise with such an even spring As if each heele were help'd with Hermes wing And on your house sit with as firme a grace As those that first sprang from the Centaures race Thank then his paines who such a care hath took To make you now his Scholler by his book And grutch not though you at some charges bee You 'l quickly save it in the Doctors fee He could be well content you all should come And practise o're your rules with him at home But since that may not be he thus hath sent As objects use his Species to present His Art aright and if I oft can see They shew 't to life though he at distance bee The Horse which in his schoole ne're knew a life Nor other forme than of the work-mans knife Lives in the picture and would surely goe Did but the Souldier once the reines let flow Who with such nimble joynts seemes o're to come The lookers on can scarce refraine to hum This only blame can on the Graver fall He cut none by to catch him should he fall Since then this work hath reach'd so faire an end That only he that made it can it mend I in my friends behalfe 'gainst such as blame His worthy paines or think his Art but lame Thus far doe pray May they a stirrup lack Trav'lling and got off from their horses back May they walk downe the steepest hils with paine And at their feet want stocks to rise againe S. G. IN the first Figure you are shewne how to prepare your selfe to the Horse which motion is equally necessarie in everie Passe the Figure is speaking and I interpret it thus March forwards to the Horse then lay your left hand on the fore pummell the reines of the bridle under your hand placing your left leg in a direct line answerable to that hand your right leg behind the left in the fashion of a Roman T your body sidewise this done march forwards one pace with your right leg advancing the left then retreat one pace back with your left advancing the right so shall you find your selfe in the same posture this Figure does present and ready for the following Passe The First Figure The Pass into the Sadle The first Passe BEing thus prepared the first Passe brings you into the saddle and is thus performed by raising of your right arme and extending your right leg provoke your selfe to the spring then at once sink your body clap both feet to the ground move your right hand back and spring clapping your right hand on the hinder pummell and withall nimbly shifting it from thence to the fore pummell equally poyze your body on the strength of your armes with a straight leg and you shall gracefully sink into the saddle then when you have occasion to alight clap both hands on the fore pummell raising your body to the strength of your armes and reverse your right leg over the hind pummell keeping it straight as before and bowing when you touch the ground the one will make your descent sightly the other easie If you chance to make use of the common riding or hunting saddle holding your left hand as