Some days we had change of horses twice or thrice in a day. Sometimes
we travelled two or three days together, not finding any people, and
then we were constrained not to ride so fast. Of twenty or thirty
horses we had always the worst, because we were strangers. For everyone
took their choice of the best horses before us. They provided me always
of a strong horse, because I was very corpulent and heavy: but whether
he ambled a gentle pace or no, I durst not make any question. Neither
yet durst I complain, although he trotted full sore. But everyone must
be contented with his lot as it fell.