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Sometime to make the armye sieme the greater, and the more terrible to the ennemy: thei set vpon horsebacke their wiues and their children, yea and men made of cloutes.
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Scithians, and therefore of some so called: vse to fighte bothe on horsebacke and on fote, with suche actiuitie and force, that thei are almoste inuincible in bothe.
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Thei be very redy on horsebacke, and very skilful archers.
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Yea thei dispatche al commune and priuate affaires, sittinge on horsebacke.
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Thei be euer on horsebacke, whether thei go to the fielde or the banket, to bye, to selle, to commune of aughte with their friende, or to do any thing that is to be done.
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These, when niede is, being in the sighte of the kinge: fight notably, and do wondrefull feates on horsebacke.
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There bee also such mightie tempestes of colde windes, that sometimes men are not able to sitte on horsebacke.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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But when we prepared our selues to the baptising of him, he suddenly mounted on horsebacke, saying that he would goe home and consult with his wife what were best to be done.
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And making mens images of copper, he set each of them vpon a saddle on horsebacke, and put fire within them, and placed a man with a paire of bellowes on the horse backe behinde euery image.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Thei vse to ronne the race, and to course, bothe on horsebacke and on foote: at the leadyng of some noble mannes sonne, chosen for the nones.
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