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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	hot_a	temperate_a	zone_n	26	3	13.7595	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04062	An hipponomie or the vineyard of horsemanship deuided into three bookes. 1. The theorick part, intreating of the inward knowledge of the man.2. The first practicke part, shewing how to worke according to that knowledge. 3. The second practicke part, declaring how to apply both hunting and running horses to the true grounds of this art. In which is plainly laid open the art of breeding, riding, training and dieting of the said horses. Wherein also many errors in this art, heretofore published, are manifestly detected. By Michaell Baret ...	Baret, Michael.	1618 (1618)	STC 1412; ESTC S100900	371,618	446

the Spanish Iennet the Irish hobby and Arabian Couser is held both by Maister Blundeuill and Maister Markham to be the cheife for pacing And the next vnto them is the d A Bastard Stallion is very good bastard Stallion begotten by one of them on our English Mares which doth exceed either of them in toughnesse by reason of the apt composition of the purity of their substance in respect of their hot clime and the humidity of our more temperate zone Which my assertion the Lord of Northumberland for a pure Turke can approue the one and that Noble and famous Knight Sir Anthony Mildmay both for pure and Bastard Barbaries can witnesse the other for strength courage beauty and touchnesse out of which race I had rather haue a Horse for the effecting of any part of Horsemanship either vpon pawne of my life or reputation then of any other in this Kingdome hauing had such full experience of them Now when you haue gotten a Stallion of some of these races and would haue Mares also to cohere with them for to bring the perfectest Colts let them be of our ●nglish breed because they will adde a more firme knitting of all the parts of the colts but yet there ought to be a care that their shape should be as neare to the true shape as is possible because it is both the most beautifull and also the nearest by all probability to the primary e Theo. 33. p. creation to the restitution whereof all Arts were inuented Which should be of stature some-what large but not very high a small Head full Eye wide Nostrell a prick Eare though somewhat Long a firme and thinne Crest with a long and straight Necke being well compast in the cragge at the setting on of f Theo. 37.d. the Head a broad Brest deepe Chested a round Backe being Barrell-Ribde and the short ribs shut vp somewhat close to the Hucklebone the Buttocke somewhat long so it be proportionable a flat Legge and straight Foote and a hollow Hoofe to which proportion both for Sallions and Mares when you haue obtained you may resolue your selfe that you haue the perfection of nature and then if in proofe you faile of your expectation there is no fault in nature but in the abuse CHAP. 4. Of the courage of the Stallions and Mares BVt as for the courage of the Stallion if I shall any deale dissent in my iudgement from the opinion of others doe not vtterly condemne mee but weigh the differences and then I hope my opinion will be held the more tollerable with some for where as it is holden that those horses which wil be conteyned either within payle rayle or quickset especially if he haue any prospect are not sit for Stallions because they are not held to be of any great courage or gentle and good disposition but are reputed to bee of a fearefull and heauy weake nature which position I cannot hold good although set downe by one whom I much reu●rence First in regard of the great danger 1 ● What danger such Horses are in they are in for sticking or laming through their vnrulinesse And secondly it is not altogether a necessity of nature for it doth not frame euery indiuiduum either in the extreame of freenesse 2 An instance or dulnesse but some are composed in the meane difference or temperance as for example in colours it is not vpon necessity that there must be either white or blacke sith there may be either blew or greene or such like And lastly it is not consonant to reason for it doth teach that 3 b The meane is the best Theo. 28. g. c The best bred horses are soonest spoyled for want of knowledge Theo. 37. l the meane in all things is the best therefore those Stallions which are of such a feirce spirit and hot disposition are worse to breed vpon then a more temperate nature because those Colts that are so bred are more of them spoyled for want of knowledge in the Art then those which are held more dull they requiring greater iudgement to bring them to a gentle cōmand of riding which thing grosse ignorance doth make too apparent for where one of those Horses is brought to his perfection there is twenty that are either spoyled or at the least a great deale of their beauty and valour darkned And againe if they be of such a dogged and cruell disposition that they will bite or strike ● A Stallion of a dogged disposition is not the best to breed on being of such a high spirit they are not to be so much commended for Stallions although in courage they be exalted in the Suparlatiue degree because of the great danger that may happen to a man by a horse of such an euill disposition in regard a mans life is to be held farre more pretious then the delight of many horses And therefore I commend the Barbary and the Turke aboue all other because they are for the most part of a milde and gentle disposition and of a meane temperature being refined by a porportionate heate of the Sunne to their f A Horse is naturally hot nature which maketh them of a good courage and apt to be brought to any reasonable obedience if the man hath knowledge in this Art to ioyne it to nature But if it be so that you cannot get a Stallion of such a temperate disposition as you desire as for the most part it happeneth for want of true obseruation in former races then for the better knowledge how you may bring your race of Colts to a meane courage which is the best you must obserue that if your g How to haue your Colts of a meane temperature Stallion be of a high spirit fierce then to chuse your Mares so neare as you can of the shape aforesaid but yet of a more milde and soft disposition but if hee bee more sober and not so full of spirit as you desire then haue a greater care that your Mares may be of a more free and quicke disposition g A simile Theo. 33.h. for as poyson of it selfe if it be not delayd will cause a confusion of the substance but if infused with other simples of contrary quality it is made restoratiue Euen so if both the indiuiduums be hot and fiery the Species must needes according to reason be more fierce for if two fires be added together they will h The Signes Planets haue operation in all sublunary bodies 1. Pr. 5. ● cause the greater heat But if the one be of one excesse and the other of another then it is likely the Species will participate the nearer to the meane whereby you shall receiue your hopefull expectation if it be not intercepted by the seuerall Aspects of the Signes and Planets which haue a continuall operation in all sublunary bodies at the time of their begetting by the 1. Cor. 3. 9. prouidence of God is the secondary