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 h][ �V I. Terre. Fifius. with fuch luxuriancy, that, unlef timdy Iopt they will endanger the whole T rt z Ever tinct that time, (the ReformattoO and long before, great numbers of people go every year OXFORD and Caasaoz to eat the (as other people go to T v t4 n a  nt; E and B a to drink the W a a' ass,) for which there are four rv'd, that wherea. the waters are allow'd promif- cuoufly to both foxes, the app/es are permitted to be eaten by none but men, they being too cious and flrong a food for female digeltion; yet �ome women have violent inclinations to them, and, like their g,:eat-grandmother E v �, wit! c:op an app!e when they think no body fee; them, or P�al one out of their brothe,'s pockets, when they come from the umverfity orchard. Concerning the �everal virtues of there academica apples, I beg leave of my reader, as I profefi my fctf a phi!olhical coffermonger, to make a few oblerva- tions. The,.th. eological apple, when it was firit brought over htthdr was a tn6fl: excellent, whol�ome, and deliciou; fruit, pleating to the eye, and agreeable to the 1tomach; it debauch'd no body's eonltitution. naufeated no body's appetite, deprat'd no body'u underltandin, and plunder'd no body's pocket: But, in lengSh of time, the whole plantation being enarofi'd by one kt of .me, they made it their bushel}, like othe'r monopolizers, to make their com. modity parce, in order to make it dear; and havml poifon'd all the natural growth, made ufe 9f h..bedt, and other rcing inventions, to Faire juf frutt ough to ferve their cuRomers, who now con fiRed chieBy of bumouri& and old men i by there methods they vimted the original ,p, sad rd'd, what was at firR ?ksfant and
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