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 Porter, if both are at Dinner on the ame Ox or Calf, but in the eaoning, the dreing, the garnihing, and the etting forth. Hence the one provokes and incites the mot languid Appetite, and the other turns and palls that which is the harpet and keenet.

In like manner, the Excellence of the mental Entertainment conits les in the Subject, than in the Author’s Skill in well dreing it up. How pleaed therefore will the Reader be to find, that we have, in the following Work, adhered cloely to one of the highet Principles of the bet Cook which the preent Age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced. This great Man, as is well known to all polite Lovers of eating, begins at firt by etting plain Things before his hungry Guets, riing afterwards by Degrees, as their Stomachs may be uppoed to decreae, to the very Quinteence of Sauce and Spices. In like manner, we hall repreent Human Nature at firt to the keen Appetite of our Reader, in that more plain and imple Manner in which it is found in the Country, and hall hereafter hah and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian Seaoning of Affectation and Vice which Courts and Cities afford.