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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	saturday_n	thursday_n	tuesday_n	5,949	5	12.7758	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44531	The gentlemans jockey, and approved farrier instructing in the natures, causes, and cures of all diseases incident to horses. With an exact and easie method of breeding, buying, dieting, and otherwise ordering all sorts of horses, as well for common and ordinary use, as the heats and course. With divers other curiosities collected by the long practice, experience and pains of J.H. Esquire, Matthew Hodson, Mr. Holled, Mr. Willis, Mr\\ Robinson, Mr. Holden, Thomas Empson, Mr. Roper, Mr. Medcalf, and Nathaniel Shaw.; Gentleman's jocky.	Halfpenny, John, 18th cent.	1676 (1676)	Wing H283C; ESTC R216447	159,953	329

the Horse Then closing up your windows and light that the Horse may remain so dark as is possible leave him til one of the clock And here you are to understand that the darker you keep your Horse in your absence the better it is and it will occasion him to feed lye down and take his rest where otherwise he would not And therefore we commonly use to arm the stals wherein those Horses stand round about and aloft and over the rack with strong Canvas both for darkness warmth and that no filth may come near the Horse At one a clock or thereabouts come to the Horse again and sift and dress him another quart of Oats as before shewed and give them him after you have rubbed well his face head and nape of the neck then putting away his dung and making the stable clean and sweet give him a little knob of hay and so leave him till four of the clock in the evening if it be in the Summer after three if it be in the Winter and short season At four a clock in the evening come again to the Stable and having made all things clean then bridle up the Horse having wet the snaffle with beer and tyed him up to the rack then take off his clothes and dress him in all points and every way as was shewed you in the morning After he is dressed then clothe and saddle him as was also shewed for the morning then bring him forth and do your best to make him piss and dung upon the foul Litter at the stable door then mount his back and ride him forth as you did in the morning but not to the hils if possible you can find any other plain and level ground as Meadow Pasture or any other earth especially if it lye along by the River But in this case you can be no chooser but must take the most convenient ground you can find to make a vertue of necessity There air your Horse in all points in the Evening as you did in the Morning galloping him both before and after his water then racking him gently up and down in your raking you must observe even from the Stable door in all your passages especially when you would have your Horse to empty himself to let him smell upon every old and new dung you meet with all for this will make him empty his body and repair his stomack After you have watered your Horse and spent the Evening in airing till within night for nothing is more wholsome or sooner consumeth foulness than early and late airings you shall then air him home to the Stable door there alight and whatsoever you did in the morning either within doors or without do the same also now at night and so leave the Horse on his bridle an hour or an hour and an half Then come to him again and as you did in the fore-noon sodo now rub well draw his bridle cleanse the manger put up his scattered hay sift him a quart and better of oats and give them him and so let him rest till nine of the clock at night At nine of the clock at night which is bedtime both for your Horse and your self come unto him and first rub down his legs hard with hard wisps then with a clean cloth rub his face head chaps nape of the neck and fore-parts Then turn up his clothes and rub over his fillets buttocks and hinder parts then put down his clothes and sift him a quart of Oats and give them him Then put into his Rack a little bundle of hay as hath been before shewed toss up his Litter and make his bed soft and so betake both him and your self to your rests till the next morning The next morning as the morning before come to the Horse before day or at the break according to the season of the year and do every thing without the omission of any one particular as hath been formerly declared And thus you shall keep your Horse constantly for the first fortnight in which by this double daily exercise you shall so harden his flesh and consume his foulness that the next fortnight if you be a temperate man you may adventure to give him gentle heats Now touching his heats you are to take to your self these four Considerations FIrst That two heats in the week is a sufficient proportion for any Horse of what condition or state of body soever Secondly That one heat should ever be given upon that day in the week on which he is to be run his match As thus for Example If your match is to be run upon the Munday then your fittest heating days are Mundayes and Fridayes and the Munday to be ever the sharper heat both because it is the day of his match and there is three days respite betwixt it and the other heat If the match-match-day be on the Tuesday then the heating days are Tuesdays and Saturdays If it be on Wednesday then the heating dayes are Wednesdayes and Saturdayes by reason of the Sabbath If on the Thursday then the heating dayes are Thursdayes and Mundayes and so of the rest Thirdly you shall give no heat except in case of extremity in very rainy and foul weather but rather to differ hours and change times for it is unwholesome and dangerous And therefore in case of showers and uncertain weather you shall be sure to provide for your Horse a warm lined hood with linnen ears and the nape of the neck lined to keep out rain for nothing is more dangerous than cold wet falling into the ears upon the nape of the neck and the fillets Fourthly and lastly Observe to give your heats the weather being seasonable as early in the morning as you can that is by the spring of the day but by no means in the dark for it is to the Horse unwholesome and unpleasant to the man a great testimony of folly and to both an act of danger and precipitation The second Fortnight's keeping NOw to descend to your second Fortnight's keeping touching your first approach to the Stable and all other by-respects as cleansing shaking up of Litter and the like you shall do all things as in the first fortnight Only before you put on his Bridle you shall give him a quart or better of clean sifted Oats which as soon as he hath eaten you shall then bridle him up and dress him in all points as was declared in the first fortnight you shall clothe him saddle him air water and bring him home in all points as in the first fortnight only you shall not put any Hay in his Rack to tear out but only draw with your hand as much fine sweet Hay which you shall toss and dust well as you can well gripe and let him as he standeth on the bridle tear it out of your hand which if he do greedily and earnestly then you may give him another and another and so let him stand on the bridle an hour