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 In faith he is vnmindful and vnworthie of increase Of corne, that in his heart can finde his tilman to release From plough, to cut his throte : that in his heart can find (I say) Those neckes with hatchets off to strike, whose skin is worn away With labouring ay for him : who turn’d so oft his land most tough, Who brought so many haruests home.—. 116-126.

And let vs not -like thus furnish vp our boords With bloody bowels. Oh, how lewd example he affoords! How wickedly prepareth he himselfe to murther man! That with a cruell knife doth cut the throat of calfe, and can Vnmoueably giue hearing to the lowing of the dam! Or sticke the kid that waileth like the little babe! or eate The foule that he himselfe before had often fed with meate! What wants of vtter wickedness in working such a feate? What may he after passe to do? Wel, either let your steers Weare out themselues with worke, or else impute their death to yeers. Against the wind and weather cold let wethers yeeld ye cotes, And. Away with springes, snarnes, and ginnes, away with rispe and net, Away with guileful feats: for foules no lime-twigs see yee set. No feared feathers pitch ye vp to keepe the red deere in, Ne with deceitfull baited hooke seeke fishes for to win.—. 462-476.

Musonius, the teacher of Epictetus, ranked by Origen with Socrates, taught (, 1881, p. 139 , 304):—

III.—I will cite but one witness—the adviser of John Wesley—to prove that the distinction between animal products and flesh-meat is not new-fangled, but familiar to medical science. Dr. Beaumont, peeping into the stomach of Alexis St. Martin, found that beef inflamed the mucous membrane just as alcohol did. In fact, beef is "the brandy of diet." Eggs and milk are not inflammatory. In (2nd ed. Lond. 1734, pp. 361, 362), Dr. Cheyne describes the regimen by which he conquered gout and a complication of disorders which had made life intolerable:

My regimen, at present, is milk, with tea, coffee, bread and butter, mild cheese, salladin, fruits, and seeds of all kinds, with tender roots (as potatoes, turnips, carrots), and, in short, everything that has not life, dressed or not, as I like it (in which there is as much, or a greater variety, than in animal