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 flesh as is not edible, as horses, dogs, bears, foxes, badgers, &c."

This great author reminds me of Robin Hood:—many men talk of his works. It is odd that he should be so much more talked of than read; because Bacon would be fine food for those philosophers who have a taylor-like propensity for cabbage.

 

Hops and turkies, carp and beer, Came into England all in a year.

A different reading of this old distich adds reformation to the list of imports, and thereby fixes the date to Henry 8th's time.

What was the difference between the beer then introduced into this country, and the ale of our ancestors? There is a passage quoted by Walter Harris, in the Antiquities of Ireland, from the Norman poet, Henry of Araunches, in which the said Henry speaks with 