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A53074	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 ...	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1667 (1667)	Wing N887; ESTC R18531	135,086	431

to them and no doubt but they do it on Purpose to keep them in Subjection and Fear of them For Familiarity breeds Contempt and Curtesie doth no Good but makes them Presume and makes them Diligent still to Obey Neither do they Use the Rod at all no more do I for one Rod will serve me almost a Year nor Use the Voyce but a good Hand and good Heels which only Dresses Horses and seldom lets a Fault escape without Punishment When they have Corrected them one Morning it may be they will Spur them the next Morning but otherwise never Correct them without a Fault and if they make none they are not Punisht and there 's their Reward Certainly this may be good for Dressing of Horses For my part when they do Well I Cherish and Reward them and when they do ill I Punish them for Hope of Reward and Fear of Punishment Governs this whole World not only Men but Horses And thus they will Chuse the Reward and Shun the Punishment They are Punisht with nothing but the Spurrs for all Whipps even of Wyre Chambrieres or Bulls-Pisles are Toyes The Rod is more for Grace than Use but Reward or no Reward is nothing at all in Comparison of the Art of Riding For let an Ignorant Fellow which most are for any thing I can perceive Flatter his Horse and not Punish him or Punish him and not Flatter him or Punish and Flatter him yet I will not Flatter the Rider but will tell you He shall Spoil your Horse let him do what he will because he wants Art Opposition in Horses AGAINST the RIDER A Signe of STRENGTH and SPIRIT BE not Discouraged if your Horse do Oppose you for it shews Strength Spirit and Stomack and a Horse having all those cannot chuse but be made a Ready-Horse if he be under the Discipline of an Understanding Hand and Knowing Heels When a Horse doth not Rebel it shews Weakness and faintness of Spirit and no Courage and where Nature is so much Wanting it is Hard for Art to Supply it But truly I never knew any Horse in my Life but before he was perfectly Drest would Rebel and Extreamly too and a great while before he would go Freely but a little still against his will until he be perfectly Drest Certainly there is no Horse but will Strive at the first in the Dressing to have his own will rather than to Obey your will nor doth any Horse love Subjection nor any other Creature until there is no Remedy and then they Obey and the Custom of Obedience makes them Ready-Horses They will Strive all the Wayes possibly they can to be Free and not Subjected but when they see it will not be then they Yield and not before So they Deserve no Thanks for their Obedience No man in the World no not the Wisest if he were put in the Form of a Horse with his Supreme Understanding could possibly find out more subtle Wayes to Oppose a Man than a Horse will nay nor near so many I dare say Whence I conclude That the Horse must know you are his Master that is He must Fear you and then he will Love you for his own Sake Fear is the sure Hold for Fear doth All things in this World Love little and therefore let your Horse Fear you What makes a Horse go by ROTE or ROUTINE THat which makes a Horse go by Rote or Routine is absolutely his Eyes and therefore I would Advise you to have as few Marks as you can in the Mannage That is No Pillars but in the Out-side and there but one for My Way upon Ayres and that will not Fix his Sight so that then he will Attend the Hand and the Heel Nor too near the Walls for then his Eyes will Attend them Nor to make him go in One Place Alwayes for there his Eyes will make him go by Rote again but several places will make him Attend the Hand and the Heel And this way and no other will Cure him of going by Rote THAT A Horse of Three Years Old is too Young for the MANNAGE A Young Horse of Three Years Old is but a Gristle and easily Spoyl'd and besides his Understanding is not comn to him so that Wanting Understanding and being so Weak you must have Patience to stay Three Years more at the Least until he hath Both Stops and going Back will Strain his Back and Spoil him so that I would rather have a Horse of Six Seven or Eight Years old so he be Sound and not Vitious than a Horse of Three Years Old for I can force him and make him a Ready-Horse in three Months But some will say Boyes learn Best and so Coltes I Answer No For if men could be Beaten to it as Boyes are they would Learn much Better and Sooner but I can Force my Horses of those Years and having both Understanding and Strength they will and must of Necessity learn much Sooner and Better How a Man should SIT PERFECTLY ON HORSE-BACK BEfore he Mounts his Horse he must see every Thing in order about the Horse which is done in an Instant without Peering and Prying about every thing as they say Pour Faire l'entendu When he is in the Saddle for I suppose most Men know how to get Up he must Sit down in the Saddle upon his Twist and not on his Buttocks though most think Nature made those to Sit on but not on Horse-Back Being Plac'd upon his Twist in the middle of the Saddle advancing towards the Pommel of the Saddle as much as he can leaving a handful of Space between his Hinder-parts and the Cantle or l'Arson of the Saddle his Leggs being straight Down as if he were on Foot his Knees and Thighes turned inwards to the Saddle holding both of them Fast as if they were Glewed to the Saddle for a Horse-man hath nothing but those two with the Counterpoize of his Body to keep him on Horse-Back his Feet planted firmly upon the Stirrups his Heels a little Lower than his Toes that the end of his Toes may pass the Stirrups half an Inch or a little more and Stiff in the Hamms or Jarrets his Leggs not too far from the Horse's Sides nor too near that is not to Touch them which is of great Use for Helps that I will Shew you hereafter The Reins of the Bridle are to be in the Left-Hand his little Finger separating the Reins and grasping the rest in his Hand with his Thumb upon the Reins his Arm bent Close to his Body but not constrain'd his Bridle-Hand some three Fingers Above the Pommel and some two Fingers Before the Pommel that the Pommel may not hinder the Reins in their Working and just over the Neck of the Horse In the Right-Hand he must have a Whistling Rod not too Long like an Angle-Rod nor too Short like a Poinson but if either let it be for there are many Graceful Helps with a Short Rod that a Long Rod will

Great Master that would Ride his Horses Twice a Day saying That if he could Dress a Horse in Six Months Once a day Riding of them he was sure he could Dress a Horse in Three Months Riding them Twice a Day Wherein he is much Deceived For a Horse being Flesh and Blood cannot indure perpetual Travel with little Rest and no Exercise is more Violent for a Horse than in the Mannage Nay of Necessity Riding so much One Morning he will not Recover it of a Day or Two And if a Horse Oppose the Man which all Horses will do at First and are Vitious one must Correct him Soundly and How will you Ride him in the Afternoon again Dull him you may and take off his Spirit make him Hate the Mannage and make him like a Vaulting Horse rather than like a Live Horse Nor can you ever Give him his Meat VVater or Rest in Order the Want of which must make him Sick and subject to many Diseases and Shortly after Death will follow and there is your Twice a day Riding him which Makes him fit for the Hunts-Man to Dress him for his Doggs Some say again That they will Ride no Horse Twice a Day but Horses that are very Vitious and of great Strength I have seen many Horses that are Vitious but few of such great Strength For if the Horse be very Vitious you must Correct him Soundly and Ride him so Long until he Obey you in some small Measure and then I am sure you have Ridd him so Violently and so Long as he will Hardly be to be Ridd the next Morning and Less to be Ridd any more that Day And if the Horse be so Docil as to Obey you in Every Thing certainly the Best way is to take but a Little of him that Morning to Encourage him to do so again and the more to Encourage him not to Ride him until the next Morning again so he will be Pleasant Lively and in Lust and take Pleasure in you and the Mannage and Learn more Thus in a Months Riding him but Once a day than he shall in three Months Riding him Twice a day Have not all Schollars Play-dayes and certain Hours of Rest in their daies of Study All Trades-Men Holy-dayes to Rejoyce themselves in States-Men Divertisments from Business And Good Preachers Preach not every Sunday Have not Lawyers also their Terms and Vacations and even Carriers Horses Rest Christmas and other Holy-dayes and so Cart-Horses Brewers Horses Coach-Horses Hackney-Horses Running-Horses And shall only Horses of Mannage be Galley-Slaves There is no Reason for that No not Doggs can Hunt every day or Gray-Hounds Course every day or Spaniels Range every day or Hawks Fly every day there are hundred Examples of it but These are Sufficient to let you see the great Folly and Ignorance of those that will Ride their Horses of Mannage Twice a Day Just like the Polander being Sick whose Physitian gave him Nine Pills to be taken Three every Night for Three Nights together who very Wisely considered That if Three Pills every Night for Three Nights together would Recover him That then taking All the Pills One Night would Make him Well Presently And so did and had Almost Purged himself Out of this World So any Horse-man that will Venture to Make a Horse as well in Three Months with Two Lessons a Day as another in Six Months with One Lesson a Day may be sure to Kill his Horse sooner than Teach him and to shew himself Ridiculous in his Undertaking How I found Out my METHOD in the MANNAGE And that it is The only WAY to DRESS HORSES THere is but One Truth in any thing and that my Method is True cannot be better Demonstrated than by Experience which will clearly show That Mine never misses its End as All Others do and so Proves Mine True and Theirs False For to say that some of them come Near the Truth is neither Commendation nor Excuse A Falshood within an Inch of the Truth being as Bad as if it were an Hundred Miles off I have Practised and Studyed Horse-manship ever since I was Ten years old Have Rid with the Best Masters of all Nations heard them Discourse at Large and Tryed their several Wayes Have Read all their Italian French and English Books and some Latine ones and in a Word All that hath been Writ upon that Subject Good and Bad And have Bestowed many Thousands of Pounds in Horses have Spoiled many and have been very Long learning of this Art of Horse-manship But all that while I thought still All was Labour in Vain and that there was something not Found out which They and their Books Mist Whereupon I began to consider so Seriously and Study so Earnestly all the Particulars that concern the Mannage that at last I Found this Method which is as True as it is New and is the Quintescence of Horse-manship For which I have Left all Others as I had great Reason so to do Making with it all manner of Horses whatsoever of all Nations and of all Dispositions Strong Weak Full of Fire Dull and Lazy even Mares Geldings and Bidets and all that ever comes to my Hands I follow not the Horses Disposition as most do but I Make the Horse follow my Wayes and Obey me I seldom Beat them or Punish them with either Rod or Spur but when I meet with a great Resistance and that Rarely And yet I must tell you that I use Force which they Obey willingly for the most part and however all Yeeld and Render themselves at last with much Satisfaction to me which I wish others may find in following their Wayes But sayes One Doth your Lordship think that both your Books would Make me a Horse-man I Answer That they are Written as plainly and as clearly as Possibly can be There is in my French Book Circles and the Prints of Horses Shooes to shew How his Leggs should Go there is also exact Figures of all Postures and of all Actions both of Man and Horse and more cannot be But whether my Books will Make you a Horse man or no though they do as much as Books can do I cannot Tell for you must have it all in your Head and it may be you will not Vnderstand it But put the Case you do yet Wanting the Practice you cannot Ride Well and yet no Fault at all in my Books but in You. There are some Nations that Think they can see Nothing but they can do it which must be by Inspiration by which I never saw any Ride though many Pretend to Preach by it It is a Long Study and Diligent Practice a Long Habit and Custom which doth All Things in the World and Nothing done without it For there is Cunning in Daubing Do you think that an Ignorant School-Boy can be as Learned as a Doctor Or let a Skilful Musitian Write the Rarest Book in the World for Composing or Singing Can you Imagine that as soon as you