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 tafting. Experience also tells us, that by mixing Bodies we may alter what we call their Taste, or Sapor: Now I will leave it to any Man to judge what a strange Confusion of Figures there must be in that Man's Stomach, who supp'd as I did before he lay down: I eat of Flesh of three Kinds, with five Modifications, or, as we call it in mine own Country, Ways of putting Sauce about it, and dressing it. I must be excus'd for not discovering all that I know of it, since I apprehend that it would encourage a new Sect to minister to the Luxury of our modern Epicureans: I eat of two Kinds of Fish, with four Modifications, with other Things which were called Eatables, tho' I am sure I could never make a Meal of them, that had above twenty seven different Modifications, which I counted; they were very like Sweetmeats. All this consider'd, plainly proves that those Vapours which were bred in Confusion, could never end in Regularity and Exactness, especially if we take into the Account the Variety of Liquors which I drank at my Meal, most of which were very volatile. Surely no Philosopher will deny that the Soul cannot be as easily, at least, affected in the Head, as in the Tongue, when he considers the Texture of both, and that the Vapours which affect the Soul in the Brain, bear the same Proportion to that which affects the Soul in the Tongue, that the Brain does to the Tongue.

But as Dreams are often very extravagant, there must be no great Exactness expected in mine: I thought that I was seated in the Play-House of Dublin upon the Earth, near two Criticks, (of the same Shape with those above mention'd,) before the Curtain was drawn, who were in earnest Dispute; each answered the Doubts which the other propos'd, by raising new ones; and they pass'd from one Question to another so fast, that they determin'd none. The Dispute was about the Curtain: One ask'd, whe-