meate: for if she waxe fatte, she wyll the rather take 24 the bull, and gyue lesse mylke. For the fatnes stoppeth the poores and the vaines, that shuld brynge the mylke to the pappes. And therfore meane grasse is beste [Sidenote: but have a moderate diet.] to kepe her in a meane estate. And if a cowe be 28 fatte, whan she shall calue, than is there great ieoperdy in her, and the calfe shall be the lesse: but ye can not [Sidenote: [Fol. 43.]] gyue your draught-oxe to moche meate, excepte it be the aftermath of a late mowen medowe. For that wyll 32 cause hym to haue the gyrre, and than he maye not well [Sidenote: Too much grass is bad.] laboure. And there be to moche grasse in a close, the cattel shall fede the worse, for a good bytte to the erthe is suffycyente. For if it be longe, the beaste wyll byte 36 of the toppe and noo more, for that is swetest, and the other lyeth styll vppon the grounde and rotteth, and no beaste wyll eate it but horse in wynter; but these beastes, horses and shepe, maye not be fodered to-gether 40 [Sidenote: In winter, beasts will gore horses and sheep.] in wynter, for thanne they wolde be seuered: for els the beastes with theyr homes wyll put bothe horses and the shepe, and gore them in theyr bellyes. And it is necessarye to make standynge cratches, to caste theyr 44 fodder in, and the staues set nyghe ynough togyther, for pullynge theyr fodder to hastely out, for shedynge. And if it be layde vppon the erthe, the fourthe parte therof wyll be loste: and if ye laye it vpon the erthe, 48 laye it euerye tyme in a newe place, for the olde wyll marre the newe. 71. ¶ The properties of horses. [Sidenote: [Fol. 43_b_.]] [Sidenote: Grazier, be not beguiled!] Thou grasyer, that mayst fortune to be of myne opynyon or condityon, to loue horses and yonge coltes or foles to go amonge thy cattel, take hede that thou [Sidenote: I have been so 100 times.] be not begyled, as I haue ben an hundred tymes and 4 [Sidenote: A good horse has 54 properties;] more. And first thou shalt knowe, that a good horse hath .liiii. propertyes, that is to say .ii. of a man, .ii. of a bauson or a badger, .iiii. of a lyon, .ix. of an oxe, .ix. of an hare, .ix. of a foxe, .ix. of an asse, and .x. of a 8 woman. 72. ¶ The two properties, that a horse hath of a man. [Sidenote: two, of a man:] The fyrste is, to haue a proude harte; and the seconde is, to be bolde and hardy. 73. The .ii. propertyes of a bauson. [Sidenote: two, of a badger:] ¶ The fyrste is, to haue a whyte rase or a ball in the foreheed; the seconde, to haue a whyte fote. 74. The .iiii. properties of a lyon.