68. ¶ Horses and mares to drawe.
Horses and mares.
Take care of the mares.
[Fol. 40b.]
Keep the horse from the mares.
Men have various opinions about foals.
I have 60 horses myself.
[Fol. 41.]
With men who speak sophistically,
a filly may be called a horse-foal; and a colt may be called a mare-foal.
[Fol. 41b.]
With white mares put a gray horse.
Put not a white horse with a coloured mare.
69.
The losse of a lambe, a calfe, or a foole.
[Fol. 42.]
Some men milk ewes, but it is a loss.
A lost foal is a great loss.