He did not either in his marks or trappings, resemble Rabicano, as Chiabrera describes him, when Rinaldo having lost Bayardo, won this famous horse from the Giant to whose keeping Galafron had committed him after Argalia's death. _Era sì negro l'animal guerriero, Qual pece d' Ida; e solamente en fronte E sulla coda biancheggiava il pelo, E del piè manco, e deretano l'unghia; Ma con fren d'oro, e con dorati arcioni. Sdegna tremando ogni reposo, e vibra Le tese orecchie, e per levarsi avvampa, E col ferrato piè non è mai stanco Battere il prato, e tutte l'aure sfida Al sonar de magnanimi nitriti._ Galafron had employed _Tutto l'Inferno a far veloce in corso Qual negro corridor._ Notwithstanding which Rabicano appears to have been a good horse, and to have had no vice in him; and yet his equine virtues were not equal to those of Nobs, nor would he have suited the Doctor so well. Lastly, he was not such a Horse as that goodly one “of Cneiüs Seiüs which had all the perfections that could be named for stature, feature, colour, strength, limbs, comeliness, belonging to a horse; but withal, this misery ever went along with him, that whosoever became owner of him was sure to die an unhappy death.” Nor did the possession of that fatal horse draw on the destruction of his owner alone, but the ruin of his whole family and fortune. So it proved in the case of his four successive Masters, Cneiüs Seiüs, Cornelius Dolabella, Caius Cassius and Mark Antony, whom if I were to call by his proper name Marcus Antonius, half my readers would not recognize. This horse was foaled in the territory of Argos, and his pedigree was derived from the anthropophagous stud of the tyrant Diomedes. He was of surpassing size, _haud credibili pulchritudine vigore et colore exuberantissimo_,—being purple with a tawney mane. No! Nobs was not such a horse as this. Though neither in colour nor in marks, yet in many other respects the description may be applied to him which Merlinus Cocaius has given in his first Macaronea of the horse on which Guido appeared at that tournament where he won the heart of the Princess Baldovina. _Huic mantellus erat nigrior carbone galantus, Parvaque testa, breves agilesque movebat orecchias; Frontis et in medio faciebat stella decorem. Frena biassabat, naresque tenebat apertas. Pectore mostazzo tangit, se reddit in unum Groppettum, solusque viam galopando misurat, Goffiat, et curtos agitant sua colla capillos. Balzanus tribus est pedibus, cum pectore largo, Ac inter gambas tenet arcto corpore caudam; Spaventat, volgitque oculos hinc inde fogatos; Semper et ad solam currit remanetque sbriatam, Innaspatque pedes naso boffante priores._