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(* sweetest os all Condiments) Limon y or Juice of Orange , one Part; * Rrfifimand therein let steep lome Slices of Horse-Radish, with a little Salt : vXhen*un»Some, in a separate Vinegar , gently bruise a Tod of Guiney-P epper y B«>. Lih.u.straining both the Vinegars apart, to make use of either, or one alone, C ^'s 6 t.or of both, as they best like ; then add as much Tewksbury y or other perhaps ftr**dry Musiard grated, as will lie upon an Half-Crown Piece: Beat and that '? incitttmingle all these very well together; but pour not on the Oyl and Vine- faus!sRmger,gar, till immediately before the Sallet is ready to be eaten: And then which is thewith the Tolk of two new-laid Eggs ( boil’d and prepar’d, as before is Sauce 'taught) Iqualh and bruise them all into malh with a Spoon; and lastly,pour it all upon the Herbs , stirring and mingling them till they are welland throughly imbib’d; not forgetting the Sprinklings of Aromatics yand such Flowers as we have already mentioned, if you think fit, andgarnishing the Dilh with the thin Slices of Horse-RadiJh y Red Beet,Berberries , &c.

Note , That the Liquids may be made more or less Acid y as is mostagreeable to your Taste.

These Rules and Prescriptions duly observ'd, you have a Sallet(fora Table of Six or Eight Persons) dress'd, and accommo-dated secundum Artem\ For, as the f Proverb has it, fCratinusin

Glauco.

'Ou 7mvTDg Bisepv ctpTtjactf

Non eft cujusvis reEle condire. •

And now after all we have advanc’d in favour of the Herbaceous Di-et, there still emerges a Third Enquiry; namely, Whether the Use ofcrude Herbs and Riants are so wholsome as is pretended ?

What Opinion the Prince of Physicians had of them, we shall seehereafter; as also what the Sacred Records of elder Times seem to inferbefore there were any Flesh-Shambles in the World; together with theReports of such as arc often conversant among many Nations and Peoplewho to this Day, living on Herbs and Roots, arrive to incredible Age,in constant Health and Vigor: Which, whether attributable to theAir and Climate , Custom , Constitution , &c. should be enquir’d into;especially, when we compare the Antediluvians mention’d Gen. i. ap.

— the whole Fifth and Ninth Chapters, ver. 3. confining them toFruit and wholsome Sallets : I deny not that both the Air and Earthmight then be lei's humid and clammy, and consequently Plants andHerbs better fermented, concocted, and less rheumatick, than since,and presently aster; to lay nothing of the infinite Numbers of putridCarcasses of dead Animals, perishing in the Flood, (of which I find fewif any, have taken notice ) which needs must have corrupted the Air:

Thole who live in Marlhes, and uliginous Places, (like the Hundredsof Ejfex ) being more obnoxious to Fevers , Agues, Pleurisies, and ge-nerally unhealthful: The Earth also then a very Bog, compar'd withwhat it likely was before that destructive Cataclysm, when Men breath’dthe pure Paradisian Air, sucking in a more æthereal, nourishing, andhaul my Pabulum , so souly vitiated now, thro'the Intemperance, Luxu-ry, and softer Education and Effeminacy of the Ages since.

Custom and Constitution come next to be examin'd, togetherwith the Qualities, and Vertue of the Food; and, I confess, the two

first,

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