Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

Lib. I. Drawing and Li turning.
lame, ill cut, false /hadowed or subjeft to some silch"
gross error. Wherefore, not without reason, Bodine
calleth the countrey ojsicinam hominunt a (hop of men,
as from whence a man might be had for all turns, ei-
ther Divine, Physitian, Souldier, Painter,&c. Though
much I confess may be imputed to the industry os that
Nation: ( for none in the world are more painfull
than they ) yet without question the people of them-
selves, as they are ingenious and capable of all other
Arts, so naturally they are inclined to this of Pain-
ting: Since thegreatest persons among them as Duke?,
Earls, and in a manner all the Gentlemen do bear an
inbred love of drawing, and os themselves by their
own prattice grow many times wonderfull expert here«
in: yet none at this day, who favoureth a good pi&ure,
or any excellency in that kind, more then Radulph the
Emperour now living.

CHAP. XVI.
Os Drawing beasts, birds,
ssowers,
YOu shall find among beasts some more harder
to be drawn then others, for two respe&s,
one is for a clean making and fliape, together
with finess of the coat or skin; the other for their nira*
bleness and much astion, both which you may for ex-
ample see to fall outinahorse, whose lineaments are
both palling curious, and coat so fine, that many
sinewes, yea and the smallest veines must be showne
in him, besides whose astion isso divers, that for
hardness of draught I know not one beast may be
compared to the Horse ; for sometime you must
draw him in his Carreer with his manage, and turn,
doing the Gorvecco, leaping, &c, which you Ihail not
Y y 2 find

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Germany a
shop of men,