On Horse races (1724) [ Practices ]
… as all the cunning of his master and the grooms could make him; and just in this manner he bit some of the greatest gamesters in the field. I was so sick of the jockeying part, that I left the crowd about the posts, and pleased my self … they came to be rubbed after the first heat. Here I fancied myself in the Circus Maximus at Rome, seeing the ancient games, and the racings of the chariots and horsemen; and in this warmth of my imagination I pleased and diverted myself … to see a race and so go home again directly. … "Here I fancied myself in the Circus Maximus at Rome, seeing the ancient games, and the racings of the chariots and horsemen; and in this warmth of my imagination I pleased and diverted myself …
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