A good horse sholde have three propyrtees of a man, three of a woman, three of a foxe, three of a haare, and three of an asse. Of a _man_, bolde, prowde, and hardye. Of a _woman_, fayre-breasted, faire of heere, and easy to move. Of a _foxe_, a fair taylle, short eers, with a good trotte. Of a _haare_, a grate eye, a dry head, and well rennynge. Of an _asse_, a bygge chynn, a flat legge, and a good hoof.—_Wynkyn de Worde_ (1496). =Horse Neighing=. On the death of Smerdis, the several competitors for the Persian crown agreed that he whose horse neighed first should be appointed king. The horse of Darius neighed first and Darius was made king. Lord Brooke calls him a Scythian; he was son of Hystaspês, the satrap. The brave Scythian Who found more sweetness in his horse’s neighing Than all the Phrygian, Dorian, Lydian playing. Lord Brooke. =Horse Painted=. Apellês of Cos painted Alexander’s horse so wonderfully well that a real horse seeing it, began to neigh at it, supposing it to be alive. Myron, the statuary, made a cow so true to life that it was said to have deceived men and animals. Valasquez painted a Spanish admiral so true to life that Philip IV., mistaking it for the officer himself, reproved him sharply for wasting his time in a painter’s studio, when he ought to have been with his fleet. Xeuxis painted some grapes so admirably that birds flew at them, thinking them real fruit. Parrhasios of Ephesus painted a curtain so inimitably that Xeuxis thought it to be a real curtain, and bade the artist draw it aside that he might see the painting behind. Quintin Matsys of Antwerp painted a bee on the outstretched leg of a fallen angel so naturally that when old Mandyn, the artist, returned to the studio, he tried to frighten it away with his pocket-handkerchief. =Horse of Brass= (_The_), a present from the king of Araby and Ind to Cambuscan´, king of Tartary. A person whispered in its ear where he wished to go, and having mounted, turned a pin, whereupon the brazen steed rose in the air as high as the rider wished, and within twenty-four hours landed him at the end of his journey. This steed of brass, that easily and well Can, in the space of a day natural.... Bearen your body into every place To which your heartè willeth for to pace. Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“The Squire’s Tale,” 1388). =Horse Shoe Robinson=. A daring American trooper, who captures five English soldiers without other assistance than a small boy and a horse. When surprised reconnoitering the enemy’s camp from a cliff, he drops upon his knees and “is digging up sassafras roots.”—John Pendleton Kennedy, _Horse Shoe Robinson_ (1852). =Horste= (_Conrade_), one of the insurgents at Liège.—Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.).