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A07721	The perfection of horse-manship, drawne from nature; arte, and practise. By Nicholas Morgan of Crolane, in the countye of Kent, Gent	[Morgan, Nicholas, of Crolane].	1609 (1609)	STC 18105; ESTC S110036	189,920	367

therefore it is truely saide that euery man and beast worketh according to the qualitie of his nature following the drist of nature that is the temperature in their working so as the more pure and excellent the temperature of the Elementes are which consisteth in the true harmony mixture or proportion of the foure first qualities hot cold dry moist in any creature the nearer is the same creature to his sitst creation and the more effectuall in operation to euerie action Fourthly it may bee answered that horses doe not c●̄tinue in the perfectiō of their first creation because in all generation of begetting there is a proceeding vitall spirit before the seede which effecteth conception according to the strength and qualitie whereof the creature begotten is in perfection of strength and qualitie as for example if an olde horse an olde Mare doe beget and bring forth a Colt you will confesse there is a decay on both parts of that vital spirit in old yeres which cannot effect equality of strength power which naturally youth I meane the midle age wherein perfection consisteth preserueth bestoweth if there be not a meanes of defect as sicknesse natural coldnes inordinate vse such like which in old age is also much more vnperfect wherby oftentimes wee see not onely the decay of beasts but of the withering of the noble progeny of man and therefore no meruaile if the horses of this age be so vnperfect when man is defectiue vnperfect in the true natural causes of generation by suffering vnperfect creatures to beget and bring forth how can there be perfection in the creature begotten and then they being vnperfect doe they not also afterwards beget vnperect For it is an infallible truth fortes creantur fortibus bouis est in inuencis est in equis patrum virtus nec imbecillam fercces progeneran aquilae columbam the strong are begotten of the strong and the vertue of the Syer of the Oxe and the Cowe is in the young bullocke and in horse neither doe lustie Eagles beget young Doues such as is sowen such will be mowen E squilla non nasc●tur resa of a bramble there groweth no rose discendit inclin ti● pr●●●candi quod procreatum est the good of the begetter is the good of the begotten Cicero saith truely n●carboris necequi virtus in opinione sita est sedin natura Neither is the goodnesse of the horse placed in opinion but in nature and therefore Secrates execrari eum sol●bat qui primo vtilitatem a natura seiunxisset was accustomed to curse him that seperated vertue from nature whereunto Celsus concurring saith quae rerum natura prohibet nulla lege confirmare possunt where nature refisteth no strength preuaileth Fiftly and lastly if it be obiected that the indurance of a horse in specie or kinde may be a limited indurance of the perticuler therefore a perpetuall preseruation of the species or kinde thorough the facultie of procreation to propagate his kinde that though euerie horse must of naturall necessitie dye yet might hee leaue another of his owne kinde behinde him as good as himselfe and so a continuall succession of goodnesse I thus answere that if they graunt a corruption in the particuler as of necessitie they must it must likewise bee granted in the species for the species being a thing existent only in imagination not hauing any reall beeing but as we conceiue of it in the particulars it is a necessarie illation from the corruption of all the particulers to conclude the like of the generall for as Nutrition is to the particuler so is generation to the species wherfore as by the nourishment the horse taketh restitution of his naturall moisture there is not supplyed so pure humiditie as was loste the particulers decaying by little and little are at last cleane consumed so by procreation the maintenance of the species the puritie of the humors being by degrees by time diminished at length there followeth euen of necessitie an absolute corruption now the decaie comming by the particulars whose function this generation is being by continuall mixture of outward nourishment corrupted the seede the matter and meanes of propagation cannot but be tainted with like corruption and this is the reason why horses are neither of continuance or goodnes as in former time for if the naturall vigor of the species be by little and little continually weakened there must of necessitie followe a perfect corruption but the most of vs like men at the stop where manye pathes meete insteede of choosing the right way by iudgement of reason doe stand stil amased and in that amazement conclude that all comes to one as who would say that South and North leade both to one place but if we applyed our wits as aduisedly to iudge between truth and falshood as euery man in his trade doth iudge betweene profit and losse we should forth with by principles bred within our selues and by conclusions following vpon the same discern true knowledge from error and the way ordeyned from deceitfull inuentions of our common practise wherefore to conclude with the cause of causes I doe resolue that the want of the true knowledge of breeding is the only cause of the multitude of Iades because no mā hath hetherto either written or practised the true naturall meanes of good breeding that all nations doe erre herein the only number of Iades in all nations are my witnesses and I would gladly learne from any how the contrarie may be defended CHAP. 20 How to know a horse that is bold by nature FIrst of his boldnesse It hath bene saide that truely that euerie creature worketh according to his nature and that his works doe manifest his nature and therfore he that hath had long tryall of his horse cannot bee ignorant of his nature so as the goodnesse of nature is considered in his quality the qualitie of his nature in his works and yet a horse that is fearefull by nature may by compulsary meanes after long vse make little or no shew of fear although he be fearefull by nature as beeing in a ship vppon the Sea where are Trumpets Guns and such like not hauing meanes to auoid the same by vse continuance thereof seemeth not fearefull for as man beeing an vnderstanding creature by often compulsarie abuses may be made tame to be abused so a creature void of reason and vnderstanding may seeme to abide and indure that which nature abhorreth Now to the matter propounded consider that there are natural signes which without will or desire to signifie any thing doe make some other things besides thēselues to be known by them as the smoak doth signifie there is fyer it is wel known by the perceiuing of things prooued that there is fier withall although there dooth nothing appeare but smoke only like as a foot-step is the signe of a beast to haue bene there likewise by the fore-head countenance and cie of man nature

dyeth and is annihilated according vnto that rule by the corruption of the subiect the forme perisheth the matter remaineth CHAP. 37 Obseruations for better direction in breeding 1. FIrst it is to bee obserued that which most importeth generation is that the meates which the horse and Mare that are to beget and bring forth do feede vpon bee in qualitie hot and drye because the seedes and matter whereof the Colt is framed must be tarte and biting growing from the saltnesse therof so become hot and dry where through the seede vessels are stirred to generation and doe according to their weight and measure enter into the composition of the Colt and so are alwaies to endure in the mixture 2. Secondly if the braine be pure the sencible soule of the colte goeth alwaies vnited with the disposition thereof which directeth the bodie to euery action and nothing offendeth the sensitiue soule so much as to make his abode in a heauie bodie surcharged with great bones and heauy flesh and that is the reason which Plato yeeldeth that the best and finest mettle Horses are of thin bone but if the Horse be not of a iust and true proportion of temperature then vndoubtedly there is not any such perfection in that Horse 3. Thirdly the seede is meere vegetatiue and not capable of the sence but only followeth the motions of the tēperature therfore if the seed be perfect it possesseth such force that after the meate is disgested and altered it maketh them though bad and grosse to turne to his owne temperature and substance and yet cannot vtterly depriue the same of the inherent qualitie for the humors do attaine the qualitie which the meat had before it was eaten 4. Fourthly there must be great discretion vsed in feeding of the Mare vntill shee haue foaled leaste by long vse of ouerbad meates The meanes to preserue the colte in the wombe the Colte in the wombe bee impayred of that qualitie of temperature it had from the seede for otherwise it little auaileth to haue begotten a Colte of perfect seede if you make no reckoning of the meat which afterward the Mare feedeth vppon and therefore the Mare may not so far eat of contrarie meats as the Colt shall lose those good qualities which it receiueth of the seede whereof it was made And the reason heerof is cleere but neuer obserued by any for at the beginning the same being made of delicate seede and that the colte groweth euery day impayring and consuming and is to be repaired by the aliment foode it taketh it is certaine that if they be bad and of euill temperature that the continuall vse of them being in the wombe will make great alteration in nature and therfore to continue the colt in the excellency of his tēperature it behoueth that the sustenance it taketh be endowed with the same qualities as the colde doe not exceed the heat nor the moiste the dry 5. Fiftly it appeareth that colts begotten when the Horse and Mare go to grasse whereof all our practise is witnesse cannot be begotten but of colde and moist seede how excellent soeuer the horse and Mare were neither can the same colts after they are foaled by any possibilitie be restored to perfection of temperature by the best keeping in the worlde because they take the qualities of their temperature at the time of their framing Nam alteratio propria est mutatio et progressus a qualitate sensibili in aliam sensibilem qualitatem contrariorum vt albo in nigrum for a proper and true alteration is a change and going forward from one sensible qualitie into another sensible qualitie of contraries and therefore can neuer be vtterly depriued and taken from them againe no more then that which is naturally white turne naturally into blacke 6. Sixtly the meate that Horses and Mares doe eat ought specially to be regarded least their braines bee thereby distempered because the braine and the stomack are vnited and chained together with certaine sinewes whereby they enterchangeably communicate their damages and we see that some Horses are Iadish in qualitie and some good in qualitie which groweth from hauing their braine well or euill instrumentalized And if any do affirme that horses haue no braines I would haue them answere from whence he hath his sence and what is the cause of staggers in a Horse if it be not the oppression of the braine and the liuer the heart and the braine being first created and truly said the vitall spirits and arteriall blood from whence the sensitiue and motiue sinewes haue their being which go wandring thorough the whole bodie and their office is to stirre vp the powers of the horse to giue him force and vigor to worke CHAP. 38. Obiections against the former propositions IT is saide that the good qualitie of the meat that the Horse and Mare eate before the action is the cause of the good or bad temperature of the seede that the good or bad temperature of the seed maketh the goodnesse or badnesse of the Colte which beeing admitted then it is demaunded wherefore Horses and Mares that are Iades beeing so dyeted and kept should not haue a perfect temperate seede aswell as the best Horses and by consequent of the proposition as perfect and as good coltes if the perfection of generation consist onely in the temperature I answere that Iades by good direction and order with continuance therein may greatly amend better their seede but they neuer can haue a true perfect and temperate seede as the excellent Horse and Mare haue of whome my proposition is and the reason is apparant for the seede whereof the Iade was sormed was originally bad and vnperfect in temperature otherwise he had not bene a Iade and the nature of all seed is of such force that what meat soeuer the Horse and Mare eat and disgest although the naturall qualitie therof be most excellent to increase a perfect seed yet it incorporateth that substance of seed which commeth of that perfect seede into the substance of their seede and naturall qualitie thereof which neuer was of perfect temperature and then pertaking of the naturall qualitie of the iades seede it is tainted with the corruption of the intemperature thereof and so remaineth still vnperfect seede and yet the naturall qualitie of the goodnes of the meat which the Iades cat is not vtterly depriued or taken away although the predominate qualitie as to the action and operation of goodnes is carryed and transported by the seede of the Iades whose qualitie and power cannot be taken from it no more then Art out of an Artificer therfore such wil be the qualitie of the iades colt that is begotten also of vnperfect shape because that the vegetatiue sensible soule are material and corporall in the seede with the discent of the Sires which fashioneth the colte in the wombe and the perfection of shape concerneth onely the vertue of the bodie that begetteth