then with warm Meat, and keep her warm all that day.

_Lice_: Mail your Hawk in some Woollen Cloath, put between her Head and
Hood a little Wool, and take a Pipe of _Tobacco_, put the little end in
at the Tream, blow the smoak, and the Lice that escape Killing, will
creep into the Cloth: _Probatum_.

_Formica_: Take a little of the Gall of a _Bull_, and beating it with
_Aloes_, anoint the Beak of the Hawk, Morning and Evening.

_Frounce_: Take the Powder of _Allume_, reduced to a Salve with strong
Wine Vinegar, and wash her mouth with it; then take the Juice of
_Lollium_ and _Raddish_, mixt with Salt, and anoint the Sore.

_Apoplex_: Gather the Herb _Asterion_ (the Moon being in the Waine and
in the Sign _Virgo_) wash your Hawks meat with the Juice thereof when
you feed her, is Soveraign.

_Wounds_: Take the Juice of _English Tobacco_, or _Mouse-eare_, after
you have sticht it up, with a little Lint, bathe the place is highly
approved.

Many other Diseases there are, which others have largely treatad of, and
to whom I refer you in case of some Diseases, which may occur; and here
take leave to conclude this my discourse of Hawking:

Of Riding,

This Noble Art being rightly and throughly learnt, qualifies a Gentleman
for the three preceding Sports, and is for that Reason placed here, as a
necessary Attendant of them. And here we must first examine the Ends &
Design of our proposing this Art to our selves, & accordingly lay down
as briefly as may be the necessary Rules and Lessons are to be observed
and learnt, for the obtaining and prosecuting the same, and I take these
to be the usual Perfections we aime at, _To Ride well the great _Horse_,
for the Warrs or Service, and the _Horse_ for Pleasure_; of both which
as concisely as I can, in their Order.

As a _Preface_ to this, we must begin with _Taming a young Colt_. After
you have kept your Colt at home some time, and made him so Familiar with
you, as to suffer _Combing_, _Currying_, _Handling_, and _Stroaking_ any
part, 'tis high time then to offer him the Saddle, which you must lay in
the _Manger_ first, that by its smell, he may not be afraid of it, or
the _Styrrups_ Noise. Then gently saddling him (after his dressing) take
a sweet _Watring Trench_, anointed with Honey and Salt, and place it in
his Mouth so, that it may hang directly over his _Tush_; then lead him
abroad in your hand, and Water him; and after he has stood an hour
rein'd thus, take off