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Ch. 1. As we do not didain to borrow Wit or Widom from any Man who is capable of lending us either, we have condecended to take a Hint from thee honet Victuallers, and hall prefix not only a general Bill of Fare to our whole Entertainment, but hall likewie give the Reader particular Bills to every Coure which is to be erved up in this and the enuing Volumes.

The Proviion, then, which we have here made is no other than Nor do I fear that my enible Reader, though mot luxurious in his Tate, will tart, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one Article. The Tortoie, as the Alderman of Britol, well learned in eating, knows by much Experience, beides the delicious Calibah and Calipee, contains many different Kinds of Food; nor can the learned Reader be ignorant, that in Human Nature, tho’ here collected under one general Name, is uch prodigious ariety, that a Cook will have ooner gone through all the everal Species of animal and vegetable Food in the World, than an Author will be able to exhaut o extenive a Subject.