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A19369 The art of riding conteining diuerse necessarie instructions, demonstrations, helps, and corrections apperteining to horssemanship, not herettofore expressed by anie other author: written at large in the Italian toong, by Maister Claudio Corte, a man most excellent in this art. Here brieflie reduced into certeine English discourses to the benefit of gentlemen and others desirous of such knowledge.; Cavallarizzo. English Corte, Claudio.; Bedingfield, Thomas, d. 1613. 1584 (1584) STC 5797; ESTC S100322 49,081 122

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impatience you shall do well to arme him with a shaffron and in the stable vse him vnto the sounds of trumpets drums and ratling of armor which being first doone the rest will feare him the lesse Aboue all things you must accustome an horsse of seruice to hunting where manie other horsses are assembled and where is great noise and shooting as hornes drums and harque busses Also accustome him to fiers waters swimming and to behold men both armed and disarmed aliue and dead and passe among them You may also ride him among coches carts and other carriages and all things vsed in the warre It is also to good purpose if you put your horsse sometimes to indure hunger and thirst cold and heate and suffer him to stand the whole daie with some burthen on his backe Moreouer it were good to ride sometimes in the night to accustome an horsse vnto the noise of armes and warlike instruments which shall make him the more couragious bold and assured Faile not likewise to let him eate all sorts of meat to drinke wine and be bridled and sadled willinglie and to let you mount dismount at your pleasure But aboue the rest make him to loue your person and as it were be in loue with you A horsse for the warre ought to be a swift and sure runner a good eater light vpon the hand strong nimble and valiant without fault or imperfection CHAP. 29. How to correct a restie horsse that rereth and yarketh behind ARestie horsse is he that refuseth or resisteth to obeie his rider either in not going forward or turning on which hand you would haue him The beginning of this stubborne condition is easilie perceiued For whensoeuer you find your horsse to go as it were in two minds seeming he doubteth whether he should go or not then shall you foorthwith vse some sharpe correction of voice and if he be restie accompanie the same with some sure stroakes of the rod vpon his shoulders and loines But beware in anie wise to strike the horsse vpon the head and cheeflie betwixt his eares for so he may be easilie slaine To strike him on the head may also bring other inconueniences as hurt of the eies and make an horsse so striken for euer after to be fearfull of the sword and cowardlie Besides the correction of the voice the rod and spur you may cause two footmen that haue some skill to stand with goads in their hands when the horsse refuseth to go forward then to rate him terriblie and pricke him behind till he doo go as you would haue him then cease But during all this time the rider shall sit quietlie and saie nothing and so soone as the horsse goeth forward or amendeth his fault make much of him An other waie to correct your horsse for this fault is that when he goeth arsward and refuseth to doo as you would then to pull him still backe till he be wearie and then let a footeman come behind with a long pike hauing a wispe burning at the end thereof and therewith pricke your horsse till he go forward which doing you must make greatlie of him But vnlesse the horsse be more than ordinarilie restie I would not wish you to touch him with fire or tie chords to his stones or cats to his taile as some men doo bicause so cruell corrections doo deforme the horsses skin and make him desperate besides that such helps are ouer base and vnfit to be vsed by gentlemen Remember also that if an horsse hauing this fault dooth weare an hard bit you must take it awaie and in steede thereof put on a canon or scatch You must likewise foresee whether your horsse hath this fault through want of sight for if his eies be not good then will he be fearefull to go forward in respect thereof in which case you may not proceed with such rigour but rather by all faire meanes and much making of giue him courage to looke well vpon the thing he feareth M. Claudio therefore dooth counsell riders to walke their horsses abroad as well in the night as the daie and bring them in streets and other places where is much noise and other things to be feared as smiths shops pewterers brasiers and such like places If your horsse reareth you must foorthwith looke what is the occasion therof to the end you may prouide a remedie As if you beare too hard an hand you must hold it more temperatlie But if the fault be in the horsse then beat him surelie ouerthwart his shoulders which correction is also necessarie when the horsse dooth make his Coruette more high than you would haue him or in dooing them cast his legs strait foorth It is also necessarie that at such time as the horsse dooth go about to reare you beare a light hand vpon the bridle and haue the curbe more slacke than ordinarie But if your horsse be ouer light and apt to yarke behind then shall you correct him well if at euerie yarke you giue him a chocke with the bridle accompaning the same with a stripe of the rod ouerth wart his bodie and shoulders Note also that the crooper of such horsses should be verie slacke and likewise the quiseill If the horsse dooth yarke when he is spurred then must you continue to spur him the more till he leaueth that fault yet so as the same be doone in due time first with the one and next with the other spur mixing thereto a chocke of the bit with the corrections of the rod voice Till such time as the horsse be brought to leaue this falt it were also good to haue a strong bit sometimes put him forward a great waie in a swift gallop and therewith tire him CHAP. 30. How to correct an horsse that wrieth his mouth or that is not willing to turne on either hand indifferentlie SOme horsse will drawe vp or wryth the one lip more than the other the cause thereof may be either that the bit dooth hurt him or resteth not in the true place or else may proceed of some euill custome Touching hurting the horsse mouth or euill placing the bit the remedie is easie But if the fault proceedeth of euill custome you must then correct the horsse sometime with your heele sometime with your stirrop sometime with the rod sometime with the spur and sometime with drawing in the contrarie side of the bit which corrections you must vse more or lesse according to the obstinacie of the horsse and till such time as you see him to leaue the fault which dooing you must cease from correction and make much of him Also to carrie the musroll strait will helpe well in this case If your horsse refuse to turne of anie hand which fault the Italians doo call La credenza or beareth his necke more on the one side than the other then would I wish you to put a string vnto the cheefe eie of the bit and tie the