=66.= 27. I. R. has--and it is better to weane thy Calues at grasse then at hard meate, if they went to grasse before.
=68.= Here I. R. introduces a long flourish about the nobleness of horses, instancing the fabulous brood born to Neptune and Ceres (who transformed herself into a mare), the transformation of Saturn into a horse, and the like.
22. I. R. has--and that shall yee knowe by diuers signes, as by her riding of other Horses, by her flinging about the fieldes, or lastly by her priuie part, for that will twirle open, and shut againe, many times in an houre.
37. _lx._] fortie (by misreading lx. as xl.).
63-79. I. R. varies this, and has--put to your white Mares a daple-gray Horse, so shall he gette all daples; to your bright bay mares a blacke bay horse, and so shall you gette all broune bayes; and to your blacke Mares, a blacke Horse, so he haue white feet, white ratch, and white feather; so shall he gette well-marked blacke Colts. But for the Carte it much matters not for colours, but for knowledge sake know that th_e_ broune bay, the daple-gray, the bright bay, and the white lyard, are the best colours; all other colours haue defects and are imperfect: of markes one white foote, a white starre, a white snyp, or a white rache is good: and an Ostrige feather in any place where the horse cannot see it, is the best of all the markes that can be for a horse. And thus much for horses or mares to be chosen or vsed.
=70.= 3. _and hygh grasse_] and much fogge.
33. _gyrre, &c._] gyre, and to scoure so much that hee wil hardly endure to labour.
39. _horse_] horses. But _horse_ is the true old _plural_ form, the sb. being neuter; A.S. _hors_, pl. _hors_. Nevertheless, Fitzherbert himself has _horses_ in the line following.
=73.= 1. _rase or a ball_] starre. A _ball_ is a streak; hence the mod. E. _bald_, M.E. _ball-ed_. See _bald_ in my Etym. Dict.
=74.= 2. _to be styffe-docked_] a stiffe docke or stearne of his taile.
=77.= 3. _syde-tailed_; _syde_ means ‘long.’
=78.= 2. _cressed_] crested. And probably _cressed_ is a mere misprint.
=80.= I. R. expands this chapter and the succeeding chapters so much that it would take up too much space to print all his additions. He gives recipes for the cure of the various diseases, and inserts chapters ‘Of the head-ach or meagrum,’ ‘Of the staggers,’ and ‘Of the Vines.’[42] I can only undertake to give here a few notes to illustrate Fitzherbert’s text.