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THE YOUNG

GENTLEMANS

Heroick Exercise •

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Perfection of Horsemanship*

Drawn from Nature, Art, and Pra-ctice of Riding.

B Efore I enter into the Unfolding of the Partsof this Art, I do think it fit to (hew the Na-tural Instinct and Temperature, that oughtto be in every Perfect Rider. He mult be a Personvoid of Pear; for, the true Properties of his Forthtude should be to Guide, hisunost noble Nature,through hard and difficult things, to the Attainingof the End of his Heroick desires; because the per-fection of every good Undertaking consisteth inthis, that it be done by a staid and constant Reason,without Rashness. And because every Rider is areasonable Creature, he therefore ought to be able

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