Art of Husbandry. 9

thereto, for that Horse doth force and drive her toit: But twenty days after it is time enough to bringher to a Horse, for otherwise she will not hold to it,except she be very eager of Horsing And that may-be known by her shape,for that will twirl about andclose again many times in an hour. And then bringher to a Horse, and let her be with him a day oranight, and that is sufficient; for it is better to keepthe Horse from the Mares, than to go with them,for divers causes, and that more especially for thatthe Horse shall be more lusty, and more Foals maybegot: But that Husbandman that hath manyMares will have too little leasure to attend them,but let them go together, and happy be lucky. Somemen do hold an opinion, that put a Horse to a Marein the beginning of the Moon, after it be prime, thathe shall get a Horse-foal; others hold the contrary,that if a Horse be put to a Mare in the old of theMoon, he should get Horse-foals. I hold that itmaketh no matter whether, for I have proved it,

, that a Mare is most able to bear the Horse frome May -day to St. Bartholomews -day j for I have had

h Horses that have gone into my Mares both day and

e night, and at the Foaling time, I have had upon one

d day a Horse-foal, and on the next day and second a

c Mare-foal, and on the third and fourth day next af-

i- ter a Horse-foal, and on the next day or second a

,v Mare-foal, and on the third or fourth day next after

is a Horse again, and so every week of both sorts;

is whereas by their opinion or reason, I should have

3, fourteen days together Horse-foals, and other four-

it teen days together Mare-foals. But of one thing I

as am certain, that some one Horse would get more

Id Horse-foals than some other Horse will do; and

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