[Sidenote: A-cloyed.] ¶ A-cloyde is an hurte, that commeth of yll shoynge, whan a smyth dryueth a nayle in-to the quycke; the which wyll make hym to halt, and is sone cured. 116. The scabbe. [Sidenote: The scab.] ¶ There is a disease amonge horses that is called the scabbe, and it is a skorfe in dyuers places of his body. And it commeth of a pouertie and yll kepynge; and is most commonly amonge olde horses, and wyll dye 4 thervpon, and maye be well cured. 117. Lowsy. [Sidenote: Lousy horses.] ¶ There be horses that wyll be lowsy, and it cometh of pouertie, colde, and yll kepynge; and it is moste commonly amonge yonge horses, and menne take lyttell [Sidenote: [Fol. 49_b_.]] hede vnto it; and yet they wyll dye thervppon, and it 4 maye be soone cured. 118. Wartes. [Sidenote: Want of warts behind.] ¶ There is a defaute in a horse, that is neyther sorance, hurte, nor disease, and that is, if a horse wante wartes behynde, benethe the spauen-place, for then he is noo chapmannes ware, if he be wylde; but if he be tame, 4 [Sidenote: _Caveat emptor._] and haue ben rydden vpon, than _Caueat emptor_, beware the byer, for the byer hath bothe his eyen to se, and his handes to handell. It is a sayenge, that suche a horse shoulde dye sodeynely, whan he hath lyued as 8 many yeres as the mone was dayes olde, at suche tyme as he was foled. 119. The sayinge of the frenche-man. ¶ These be soraunce, hurtes, dyseases, that be nowe [Sidenote: A French proverb.] comme to my mynde; and the frenche-man saythe, _Mort de langue et de eschine Sount maladyes saunce medicine_. The mournynge of the tongue, and of the chyne, are 4 diseases without remedy or medicyne. And ferther he [Sidenote: Another French proverb.] saythe, _Gardes bien, que il soyt cler de vieu, Que tout trauayle ne soit perdue_: Be wel ware that he be clere of syghte, lest all thy trauayle or iourneye be lost or 8 nyght. And bycause I am a horse-master my-selfe, I [Sidenote: [Fol. 50.]] haue shewed you the soraunce and dyseases of horses, to the entent that men shulde beware, & take good hede what horses they bye of me or of any other. Howe 12 [Sidenote: If ever you trust a horse-master, trust me.] be it I saye to my customers, and those that bye any horses of me, and euer they wil trust any hors-master or corser whyle they lyue, truste me. 120. ¶ The diuersitie bytwene a horse-mayster, a corser, and a horse-leche.