_J'allay curieux En chocs furieux, Sans craindre estrapade; Mal rabotez lieux Passez a cloz yeux, Sans faire chopade. La viste virade, Pompante pennade, Le saut soubzlevant, La roide ruade, Prompte petarrade Je mis en avant. Escumeur bavant Au manger sçavant, Au penser très-doux; Relevé devant, Jusqu' au bout servant J'ay esté sur tous._ Like that Arabian which Almanzar sent to Antea's father, the Soldan, _Egli avea tutte le fattezze pronte Di buon caval, come udirete appresso._[7] Like those horses, described by Mr. Milman in his version of the episode of Nala from the Mahábhárata, he was fit and powerful for the road; Blending mighty strength with fleetness,—high in courage and in blood: Free from all the well-known vices,—broad of nostril, large of jaw, With the ten good marks distinguished,—born in Sindhu, fleet as wind. [Footnote 7: PULCI.] Like these horses he was,—except that he was born in Yorkshire;—and being of Tartarian blood it may be that he was one of the same race with them. He was not like the horses of Achilles; _Ἐξ ἀφθίτων γὰρ ἄφθιτοι πεφυκότες Τὸν Πηλέως φέρουσι θούριον γόνον. Δίδωσι δ᾽ αὐτους πωλοδαμνήσας ἄναξ Πηλεῖ Ποσειδῶν, ὡς λεγουσι, πόντιος._[8] Like them therefore Nobs could not be, because he was a mortal horse; and moreover because he was not amphibious, as they must have been. If there be any of their breed remaining, it must be the immortal River, or more properly Water-Horse of Loch Lochy, who has sometimes, say the Highlanders, been seen feeding on the banks: sometimes entices mares from the pasture, sometimes overturns boats in his anger and agitates the whole lake with his motion. [Footnote 8: EURIPIDES.] He was of a good tall stature; his head lean and comely; his forehead out-swelling; his eyes clear, large, prominent and sparkling, with no part of the white visible; his ears short, small, thin, narrow and pricking; his eye-lids thin; his eye-pits well-filled; his under-jaw thick but not fleshy; his nose arched; his nostrils deep, open and extended; his mouth well split and delicate; his lips thin; his neck deep, long, rising straight from the withers, then curving like a swan's; his withers sharp and elevated; his breast broad; his ribs bending; his chine broad and straight; his flank short and full; his crupper round and plump; his haunches muscular; his thighs large and swelling; his hocks round before, tendonous behind, and broad on the sides, the shank thin before, and on the sides broad; his tendons strong, prominent and well detached; his pasterns short; his fet-locks well-tufted, the coronet somewhat raised; his hoofs black, solid and shining; his instep high, his quarters round; the heel broad; the frog thin and small; the sole thin and concave.