Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets by John Evelyn

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_Eyes_, 7, vide _Sight_.

F.

Fabrorum prandia, 8

_Fainting_, 47

_Families enobl'd by names of Sallet Plants_, 20

_Farcings_, 35

Fascicule, 70

_Fevers_, 20

_Felicity of the Hortulan Life_, 122

_Fennel_, 17

_Flatulents_, 33

Flesh, _none eaten during 2000 years. Flesh eaters not so ingenious as
Sallet eaters: unapt for Study and Bussiness; shortens Life; how all
Flesh is Grass_, 94

_Flowers_, 17

Foliatorum ordo, 105

_Fowl relish of their Food_, 86

_Food. No Necessity of different Food_, 90;
_The simplest best_, 92;
_Man's original Food_, 93

_Fools unfit to gather Sallets contrary to the_ Italian _Proverb_, 61

_Friers_, vide _Monks_.

Frigidae Mensae, 82

_Frugality of the ancient_ Romans, _&c._, 21

_Fruit_, 75;
_not reckon'd among Sallets_, 76;
_not degenerated since the Flood, where industry is us'd_, 104

Fugaces fructus, 74

Fungus, 26, vide _Mushroms_.

Fungus reticularis, 27

_Furniture and Ingredients of Sallets_, 61

G.

Galen _Lover of Lettuce_, 21

_Gardiner's happy Life_, 113;
_Entertain Heroes and great Persons_, 115

_Garlick_, 18

_Garnishing_, 8

_Gatherers of Sallets should be skilful Herbarists_, 71

Gemmae, 9, _vide_ Buds.

_Gerkems_, 15, _vide Cucumber_.

_Ginny-Pepper_, 78

_Goats beard_, 18

_Golden Age_, 99

Gordian _Emp._, 82

Gramen Amygdalosum, 48

_Grand Sallet_, 42

_Grass_, 82

_Grillus_, 56

_Gymnosophists_, 97

H.

_Habits difficult to overcome, applied to Flesh-Eaters_, 98

Haeredium _of old_, 123

Halimus, 36

_Harmony in mixing Sallet Ingredients as Notes in Musick_, 60

Hautgout, 77

_Head_, 40, _vide Cephalicks_.

_Heart_, 42, _vide Cordials_.

Heliotrop, 49

_Hemlock_, 54

_Herbaceous Animals know by instinct what Herbs are proper for them
better than Men_, 56;
_and excel them in most of the senses_, ib.

_Herbals_, vide _Books_.

_Herbs, crude, whether wholsome_, 80;
_What proper for Sallets_, 70;
_Their Qualities and Vertues to be examined_, 82;
_Herby Diet most Natural_, 98

Heroes _of old skill'd in Cookery_, 77

Hippocrates _condemns Radish_, 37;
_That Men need only Vegetables_, 106

Hipposelinum, 5

Holyhoc, 24

_Honey_, 14

_Hops_, 19

Horarii fructus, 74

Horminum, 12

_Horses not so diseased as Men_, 91;
_Recompens'd by some Masters for long Service_, 91

_Horse-Radish_, 38

_Hortulan Provision most plentiful of any, advantageous, universal,
natural, &c._, 110

_Hot Plants_, 8

_Hot Beds, how unwholsome for Salleting_, 85

_House-wife had charge of the Kitchin Garden_, 119

_Humours_, 57

_Hypochondria_, 9

_Hysop_, 19

I.

_Ilander_, 58;
_obnoxious to the Scorbute_, ib.

_Indigestion_, 38

_Ingredients_, 4, vide _Furniture_.

_Insects_, 28

Intuba Sativa, 16

Israelites _Love of Onions_, 32

J.

_Jack-by-the-Hedge_, 19

John _the_ Baptist, 106

Justin Martyr _concerning the eating of Blood_, 101

K.

_Knife for cutting Sallets_, 68

_Kitchen Garden_, 119, vide Potagere.

L.

Lapathum, 24

Laserpitium, 51

Latet anguis in herba, 115

_Laws_, 116

_Laxatives_, 7

_Leeks_, 20

Legumena, 73

_Lettuce_, 20

_Limon_, 23

_Liver_, 13

_Longaevity_, 81

Lotophagi, 106

_Lungs_, 20

Lupulus, 19

_Luxury_, 81

Lysimachia Seliquosa glabra, 49

Lyster, _Dr._, 56

M.

Macarons, 49

Majoran, 19

_Mallows_, 23

Malvae folium sanctissimum, ib.

_Man before the Fall knew the Vertues of Plants_, 83;
_Unbecoming his Dignity to butcher the innocent Animal for Food_, 94;
_Not by nature carnivorous_, 111;
_Not lapsed so soon as generally thought_, 95

_Marygold_, 19

_Masculine Vigour_, 52

Materia medica, 65

_Materials for Sallets_, vide _Furniture_.

Maximinus _an egregious Glutton, Sallet-hater_, 121

_Meats commend not to God_, 99

_Medals of_ Battus _with_ Silphium _on the reverse_, 51

Melissa, 7

_Melon, how cultivated by the Ancients_, 24

_Memory to assist_, 7

_Mints_, 25

Mithacus, _a Culinary Philosopher_, 77

_Mixture_, 57

_Moist_, 9

_Monks and Friers perstring'd for their idle unprofitable Life_, 107
& _seqq._

Morocco _Ambassador_, 43; _Lover of Sow-thistles_.

Mortuorum cibi _Mushroms_, 20

Mosaical _Customs_, 94;
Moses _gave only a summary account of the Creation, sufficient for
instruction, not Curiosity_, 102

_Mushroms_, 26;
_Pernicious Accidents of eating them_, 26;
_How produced artificially_, 29

_Mustard_, 30

_Myrrh_, 12

_Myrtil-Berries_, 35

N.

Napus, 46

Nasturtium, 13;
Indicum, 41

_Nature invites all to Sallets_, 111

Nepenthes, 9

_Nerves_, 54

_Nettle_, 30

_Nigard_, 61

_Nourishing_, 5

O.

_Obstructions_, 16

_Ocimum_, 7

Olera, _what properly, how distinguish'd from Acetaria_, 1, 2

Oluscula, 4

_Onion_, 31;
_What vast Quantities spent in_ Egypt, 32

_Opening_, 16

Orach, 32

_Orange_, 23

Ornithogallon, 48

Oxalis, 42

Oxylapathum, 15

_Oyl, how to choose_, 63;
_Its diffusive Nature_, 69

P.

_Painters_, 50

_Palpitation_, 47

_Palsie_, 30

_Panacea_, 10

Paradisian _Entertainment_, 122

Paralysis, 13

_Parsnip_, 33

Pastinaca Sativa, 11

_Patriarchs_, 93;
_Their Long Lives a Shadow of Eternity_, 96

_Peach said to be Poison in_ Persia, _a Fable_, 87

_Peas_, 33

_Pectorals_, 58

_Pepper_, 33;
_Beaten too small, hurtful to the Stomach_, 34

_Persly_, 35;
_Sacred to the Defunct_, ib.

_Philosophers_, 56

_Phlegm_, 30

_Pickle_, 72;
_What Sallet Plants proper for Pickles_, ib., _vide Appendix_.

_Pig-Nuts_, 28

_Pimpernel_, 9

_Plants, their Vertue_, 59;
_Variety_, 114;
_Nourishment_, 83;
_No living at all without them_, 110;
_Plants infect by looking on_, 57;
_When in prime_, 71;
_how altered by the Soil and Culture_, 84;
_Not degenerated since the Flood_, 105

Platonic _Tables_, 97

_Pleurisie_, 81

_Poiverade_, 7

_Poppy_, 48

Porrum, 20

Postdiluvians, 93

_Potage_, 5

Potagere, 119

_Pot-Herbs_, 19

_Poyson_, 18

_Praecoce Plants not so wholsome artificially rais'd_, 85

_Preparation to the dressing of Sallets_, 10

_Prodigal_, 61

_Pugil_, 70

_Punishment_, 18

_Purslan_, 36

_Putrefaction_, 33

Pythagoras, 97

Q.

_Quality and Vertue of Plants_, 53. _See Plants_.

R.

_Radish_, 37;
_of Gold dedicated at_ Delphi, 37;
Moschius _wrote a whole Volume in praise of them_, ib.;
Hippocrates _condemns them_, ib.

Raphanus Rusticanus _Horse Radish_, 38

Radix Lunaria, 48;
Personata, 49

Ragout, 28

_Rampion_, 39

_Rapum_, 46

_Ray, Mr._, 55

_Refreshing_, 13

_Restaurative_, 5

_Rocket_, 39

_Roccombo_, 18

Roman _Sallet_, 112;
_Lux_, 115

_Rosemary_, 39

_Roots_, 37

_Rhue_, 49

S.

_Saffron_, 68

_Sage_, 39

_Sallets, what, how improved, whence so called_, 3;
_Ingredients_, 4;
_Variety and Store above what the Ancients had_, 112;
_Bills of Fare_, 112;
_Skill in choosing, gathering, composing and dressing_, 48;
_found in the Crops of Foul_, 62;
_what formerly in use, now abdicated_, 49;
_extemporary Sallets_, 87;
_Whether best to begin or conclude with Sallets_, 73

Salade de Preter, 13

_Salt_, 64;
_What best for Sallets_, 64;
_Salts Essential, and of Vegetables_, 65

Sambucus, 16

_Sampier_, 40

_Sanguine_, 36

Sarcophagists, 56

_Sauce_, 39

_Savoys_, 11

_Scallions_, 41

Scorbute, vide _Scurvy_.

_Scurvy-Grass_, 41

_Scurvy_, 9

_Season_, 71

_Seasoning_, 79, vide _Sallet_.

Sedum minus, 45, _vide_ Stone-Crop.

_Sellery_, 41

Seneca, 98

_Shambles_, 77

_Sight_, 50, vide _Eyes_.

Silphium, 50;
_How precious and sacred_, 51

_Simples_, 49

_Sinapi_, 30

_Sisarum_, 42

_Skirrits_, ib.

_Sleep, to procure_, 21

_Smallage_, 41

_Smut in Wheat_, 86

Syrenium Vulgare, 5

_Snails, safe Tasters_, 56

_Sonchus_, 43

_Sordidness_, 87

_Sorrel_, 42

_Sow-thistle_, vide Sonchus.

_Specificks, few yet discovered_, 83

_Spleen_, 10

_Spinach_, 12

_Spirits, cherishing and reviving_, 9

_Spring_, 71

_Stomach_, 16

_Stone_, 9

_Stone-Crop_, 44

_Strowings_, 67

_Students_, 9

_Succory_, 44

_Sugar_, 14

_Summer_, 84

_Sumptuary Laws_, 116

_Swearing_ per Brassicam, 11

_Swine used to find out Truffles and Earth-Nuts_, 28

T.

_Table of Species, Culture, Proportion and dressing of Sallets,
according to the Season_, 70

Tacitus, _Emp. Temperance_, 21

_Tansie_, 44

_Tarragon_, 45

_Taste should be exquisite in the Composer of Sallets_, 60

_Tea_, 17, vide Appendix.

_Temper_, 81

_Temperance_, 21

_Teeth_, 37

Theriacle, _vide Garlick_.

_Thirst, to asswage_, 33

_Thistle_, 45

_Thyme_, 19, vide _Pot-herbs_.

Tiberius Caes., 42

Tragopogon, 47

_Transmigration_, 56

_Tribute paid to Roots_, 42

Truffles, 28

Tubera, 28

_Tulip eaten that cost_ 100 _l._, 47

Turiones, 9

_Turnip_, 46;
_Made a Fish_, 113

V.

_Vapours to repress_, 21

_Variety necessary and proper_, 92

_Ventricle_, 20, vide _Stomach_.

_Vine_, 47

_Vinegar_, 63; vide Appendix.

_Viper-Grass_, 47

_Vertues of Sallet Plants and Furniture_, 57;
_Consist in the several and different Parts of the same Plant_, 49

Voluptuaria Venena, 28

U.

Urtica, 30

W.

_Welsh, prolifick_, 20

_Wind_, 17

_Wine_, 7; vide _Appendix_.

_Winter Sallets_, 7; vide _Appendix_.

_Wood-Sorrel_, 47

_Worms in Fennel, and Sellery_, 17

_Wormwood_, 49

Y.

_Youth to preserve_, 85

* * * * *

FOOTNOTES

[Footnote 1: _Lord Viscount_ Brouncker, _Chancellor to the Late Qu.
Consort, now_ Dowager. _The Right Honourable_ Cha. Montague, _Esq;
Chancellor of the_ Exchequer.]

[Footnote 2: _Si quid temporis a civilibus negotiis quibis totum jam
intenderat animum, suffurari potuit, colendis agris, priscos illos
Romanos_ Numam Pompilium, Cincinnatum, Catonem, Fabios, Cicerones,
_aliosque virtute claros viros imitare; qui in magno honore constituti,
vites putare, stercorare agros, & irrigare nequaquam turpe & inhone stum
putarunt_. In Vit. _Plin._ 2.]

[Footnote 3: Ut hujusmodi historiam vix dum incohatum, non ante
absolvendam putem.

Exitio terras quam dabit una dies. _D. Raius_ Praefat. Hist. Plan.]

[Footnote 4: Olera a frigidis distinct. _See_ Spartianus in Pescennio.
Salmas. in Jul. Capitolin.]

[Footnote 5:

Panis erat primis virides mortalibus Herbae;
Quas tellus nullo sollicitante dabat.
Et modo carpebant vivaci cespite gramen;
Nunc epulae tenera fronde cacumen erant.

Ovid, Fastor. IV.]

[Footnote 6: [Greek: kaloumen gar lachana ta oros ten hemeneran
chreian], Theophrast. Plant. 1. VII. cap. 7.]

[Footnote 7: Gen. I. 29.]

[Footnote 8: Plutarch Sympos.]

[Footnote 9: Salmas. in Solin. _against_ Hieron. Mercurialis.]

[Footnote 10: Galen. 2R. Aliment. cap. l. Et Simp. Medic. Averroes, lib.
V. Golloc.]

[Footnote 11: Plin. lib. XIX. c. 4.]

[Footnote 12: Convictus facilis, fine arte mensa. Mart. Ep. 74.]

[Footnote 13: [Greek: Apuron trophui], _which_ Suidas _calls_ [Greek:
lachana], Olera quae cruda sumuntur ex Aceto. Harduin in loc.]

[Footnote 14: Plin. H. Nat. _lib. xix. cap. 8._]

[Footnote 15: _De_ R.R. _cap. clvii_.]

[Footnote 16: [Greek: 'Ephthos, dosikuos, apalos, aluos, ouretikos].
Athen.]

[Footnote 17: Cucumis elixus delicatior, innocentior. Athenaeus.]

[Footnote 18: Eubulus.]

[Footnote 19: In Lactuca occultatum a Venere Adonin cecinit
_Callimachus_, quod Allegorice interpretatus _Athenaeus_ illuc referendum
putat, quod in Venerem hebetiores fiant Lactucis vescentes assidue.]

[Footnote 20: Apud Sueton.]

[Footnote 21: Vopiseus Tacit. _For the rest both of the Kinds and
Vertues_ of Lettuce, _See_ Plin. H. Nat. _l. xix. c. 8. and xx. c. 7_.
Fernel. &c.]

[Footnote 22: De Legib.]

[Footnote 23: _Hor_. Epod. II.]

[Footnote 24: De Simp. Medic. L. vii.]

[Footnote 25: _Lib._ ii. _cap._ 3.]

[Footnote 26: Exoneraturas Ventrem mihi Villica Malvas Attulit, &
varias, quas habet hortus, Opes.

_Mart. Lib. x._

_And our sweet Poet_:

----Nulla est humanior herba,
Nulla magis suavi commoditate bona est,
Omnia tam placide regerat, blandequerelaxat,
Emollitque vias, nec sinit esse rudes.

Cowl. _Plan._ L. 4.]

[Footnote 27: Cic _ad Attic_.]

[Footnote 28: Sueton _in Claudi._]

[Footnote 29: Sen. Ep. lxiii.]

[Footnote 30: Plin. N.H. _l. xxi_. c. 23.]

[Footnote 31: Transact. Philos. _Num._ 202.]

[Footnote 32: Apitius, _lib. vii. cap. 13_.]

[Footnote 33: Philos. Transact. _Num._ 69. _Journey to_ Paris.]

[Footnote 34: Pratensibus optima fungis Natura est: aliis male creditur.
_Hor. Sat. l. 7. Sat. 4._]

[Footnote 35: Bacon _Nat. Hist._ 12. Cent. vii. 547, 548, &c.]

[Footnote 36: Gaffend. _Vita Peirs._ l. iv. Raderus _Mart._ l. Epig.
xlvi. In ponticum--_says, within four Days_.]

[Footnote 37: O Sanctas gentes, quibus haec nascuntur in hortis
Numina****---- _Juv. Sat. 15._]

[Footnote 38: Herodotus.]

[Footnote 39: [Greek: hora to rhadios phaines], quia tertio a fatu die
appareat.]

[Footnote 40: De diaeta _lib._ ii. _cap._ 25.]

[Footnote 41: De Aliment. Facult. _lib._ ii.]

[Footnote 42: _Philos. Transact._ Vol. xvii. Num. 205. p. 970.]

[Footnote 43: _Plin._ H. Nat. Lib. xix. cap. 3. & xx. c. 22. See Jo.
Tzetzes Chil. vi. 48. & xvii. 119.]

[Footnote 44: Spanheim, De usu & Praest. Numis. Dissert. 4to. _It was
sometimes also the Reverse_ of Jupiter Hammon.]

[Footnote 45:
[Greek: oud an eidoies ge moi]
[Greek: Ton plouton auton k- to Bat-ou silphion].
_Aristoph_. in Pluto. Act. iv. Sc. 3.]

[Footnote 46: _Of which some would have it a courser sort_ inamoeni
odoris, _as the same Comedian names it in his_ Equites, _p. 239. and
240_. Edit. Basil. _See likewise this discuss'd, together with its
Properties, most copiously, in_ Jo. Budaeus _a_ Stapul. _Comment. in_
Theophrast. lib. vi. cap. 1. _and_ Bauhin. _Hist. Plant._ lib. xxvii.
cap. 53.]

[Footnote 47: Vide _Cardanum_ de usu Cibi.]

[Footnote 48: _Vol._ xx.]

[Footnote 49: Cowley:

[Greek: Oud oson in malache te k- asphodelo meg oneiar]
[Greek: Krupsantes gar echousi theoi Bion anthropoisi.]
Hesiod.]

[Footnote 50: _Concerning this of Insects, See Mr._ Ray's _Hist. Plant.
li. l. cap. 24_.]

[Footnote 51: _The poyson'd Weeds: I have seen a Man, who was so
poyson'd with it, that the Skin peel'd off his Face, and yet he never
touch'd it, only looked on it as he pass'd by_. _Mr._ Stafford, _Philos.
Transact._ Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 794.]

[Footnote 52: Cowley, _Garden_, Miscel. Stanz. 8.]

[Footnote 53: Sapores minime Consentientes [Greek: kai sumpleko-uas
ouchi symphonous haphas]: Haec despicere ingeniosi est artificis:
_Neither did the Artist mingle his Provisions without extraordinary
Study and Consideration_: [Greek: Alla mixas panta kata symphonian].
Horum singulis seorsum assumptis, tu expedito: Sic ego tanquam Oraculo
jubeo.----Itaque literarum ignarum Coquum, tu cum videris, & qui
Democriti scripta omnia non perlegerit, vel potius, impromptu non
habeat, eum deride ut futilem: Ac ilium Mercede conducito, qui Epicuri
Canonen usu plane didicerit, _&c. as it follows in the_ Gastronomia _of_
Archestratus, Athen. lib. xxiii. _Such another_ Bragadoccio Cook Horace
_describes_

Nec sibi Coenarum quivis temere arroget artem
Non prius exacta tenui ratione saporem.
_Sat. lib. ii. Sat. 4._]

[Footnote 54: Milton's _Paradise Lost_.]

[Footnote 55:

---- Qui
Tingat olus siccum muria vaser in calice empta
Ipse sacrum irrorans piper ---- Pers. _Sat._ vi.]

[Footnote 56: _Dr._ Grew, Lect. vi. c. 2. 3.]

[Footnote 57: _Muffet_, de Diaeta, _c._ 23.]

[Footnote 58: _Dr._ Grew, _Annat. Plant._ Lib. l. Sect. iv. cap. l, &c.
_See also_, Transact. _Num._ 107. _Vol._ ix.]

[Footnote 59: _Philosoph. Transact._ Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 799.]

[Footnote 60: Mart. _Epig. lib._ xi. 39.]

[Footnote 61: Athen. l. 2. _Of which Change of Diet see_ Plut. iv.
_Sympos._ 9. Plinii _Epist._ I. _ad Eretrium._]

[Footnote 62: Virg. _Moreto_.]

[Footnote 63: Hor. _Sat. I. 2. Sat. 4._]

[Footnote 64: Mart. _Ep. l._ v. _Ep. 17_.]

[Footnote 65: _Concerning the Use of Fruit (bessides many others)
whether best to be eaten before, or after Meals? Published by a
Physician of_ Rochel, _and render'd out of_ French _into_ English.
_Printed by_ T. Basset _in_ Fleetstreet.]

[Footnote 66: Achilles, Patroclus, Automedon. _Iliad. ix. & alibi_.]

[Footnote 67: _For so some pronounce it_, V. Athenaeum Deip. _Lib._ II.
_Cap._ 26 [Greek: ed-] quasi [Greek: edusma], _perhaps for that it
incites Appetite, and causes Hunger, which is the best Sauce_.]

[Footnote 68: Cratinus in Glauco.]

[Footnote 69: Nat. Hist. IV. _Cent._ VII. 130. Se Arist. Prob. _Sect._
xx. _Quaest._ 36. _Why some Fruits and Plants are best raw, others
boil'd, roasted_, &c, _as becoming sweeter; but the Crude more sapid and
grateful_.]

[Footnote 70: Card. _Contradicent_. Med. l. iv. _Cant._ 18. Diphilus
_not at all_. Athenaeus.]

[Footnote 71: _Sir_ Tho. Brown's _Miscel._]

[Footnote 72: Caule suburbano qui ficcis crevit in agris Dulcior,--
--Hor. _Sat._ l. 2. Section 4.]

[Footnote 73: Transact. Philos. _Num._ xxv.]

[Footnote 74: _Num._ xviii.]

[Footnote 75: _Thesaur. Sanit._ c. 2.]

[Footnote 76: _As_ Delcampius _interprets the Place_.]

[Footnote 77: Scaliger ad Card. Exercit. 213.]

[Footnote 78: _Cel._ Lib. Cap. 4.]

[Footnote 79: Plin. _Nat. Hist. l. 3. c. 12._]

[Footnote 80: Hanc brevitatem Vitae (_speaking of Horses_) fortasse
homini debet, _Verul. Hist._ Vit. & Mort. _See this throughly
controverted_, Macrob. _Saturn._ l. vii. c. v.]

[Footnote 81: Arist. _Hist. Animal. l._ v. _c._ 14.]

[Footnote 82: [Greek: anomoia sasiazei].]

[Footnote 83: Hor. _Sat. l._ II. _Sat._ 2. Macr. _Sat. l._ VII.]

[Footnote 84: Gen. ix.]

[Footnote 85: Metam. i. Fab. iii. _and_ xv.]

[Footnote 86: Gen. xi. 19.]

[Footnote 87: Gen. ix.]

[Footnote 88: _Porphyr._ de Abstin. _Proclum_, _Jambleum_, &c.]

[Footnote 89: Strom, vii.]

[Footnote 90: Praep. Lv. passim.]

[Footnote 91: Tertul. _de Tejun._ cap. iv. Hieron. _advers._ Jovin.]

[Footnote 92: Sen. _Epist._ 108.]

[Footnote 93: 1 _Cor._ viii. 8. 1. _Tim._ iv. 1. 3. 14. _Rom._ ii. 3.]

[Footnote 94:

Has Epulas habuit teneri gens aurea mundis
Et coenae ingentis tune caput ipsa sui.
Semide unque meo creverunt corpora succo,
Materiam tanti sanguinis ille dedit.
Tune neque fraus nota est, neque vis, neque foeda libido;
Haec nimis proles saeva caloris erat.
Si sacrum illorum, sit detestabile nomen,
Qui primi servae regne dedere gulae.
Hinc vitiis patefacta via est, morbisq; secutis sas,
Se lethi facies exeruere novae.
Ah, fuge crudeles Animantum sanguine men
Quasque tibi obsonat mors inimica dapes.
Poscas tandem aeger, si sanus negligis, herbas.
Esse cibus nequeunt? at medicamen erunt.
_Colci_ Plaut. lib. 1. Lactuca.]

[Footnote 95: Gen. ix.]

[Footnote 96: Ancyra xiv.]

[Footnote 97: Can. Apost. 50.]

[Footnote 98: Clem. Paedag. _Lib._ ii. c. l. _Vide_ Prudent. _Hymn_.
[Greek: cha themerinon]: Nos Oloris Coma, nos siliqua facta legumine
multitudo paraveris innocuis Epulis.]

[Footnote 99: xv. _Acts_, 20, 29.]

[Footnote 100: _Philo_ de Vit. Contemp. _Joseph_. Antiq. _Lib._ 13
_Cap._ 9.]

[Footnote 101: _Hackwell_. Apolog.]

[Footnote 102: Hippoc. de vetere Medicina, Cap. 6, 7.]

[Footnote 103: 2 _Tim._ iv. 3.]

[Footnote 104: _This, with their prodigious Ignorance_. _See_ Mab. des
Etudes Monast. _Part._ 2. c. 17.]

[Footnote 105: _Dr._ Lister's _Journey to_ Paris. _See L'Apocalyps_ de
Meliton, _ou Revelation des Mysteres Cenobitiques_.]

[Footnote 106: Plantarum usus latissime patet, & in omni vitae parte
occurrit, sine illis laute, sine illis commode non vivitur, ac nec
vivitur omnino. Quaecunque ad victu necessaria sunt, quaecunque ad
delicias faciunt, e locupletissimo suo penu abunde subministrant: Quanto
ex eis mensa innocentior, mundior, salubrior, quam ex animalium caede &
Laniena! Homo certe natura animal carnivorum non est; nullis ad praedam &
rapinam armis instructum; non dentibus exertis & ferratis, non unguibus
aduncis: Manus ad fructos colligendos, dentes ad mandendos comparati;
nee legimus se ante diluvium carnes ad esum concessas, &c. _Raii Hist.
Plant. Lib._ 1. _cap._ 24.]

[Footnote 107: Mart. _lib._ x. _Epig._ 44.]

[Footnote 108: Barl. _Eleg. lib._ 3.]

[Footnote 109: Athen. Deip. _l._ i.]

[Footnote 110: Cowley, _Garden. Stanz._ 6.]

[Footnote 111: _Hence in_ Macrobius Sat. lib. vii. c. 5. _we find_
Eupolis _the Comedian in his_ aeges, _bringing in Goats boasting the
Variety of their Food,_ [Greek: Boskometh ules apo pantodaoes, elates],
&c. _After which follows a Banquet of innumerable sorts_.]

[Footnote 112: Esa. lxv. 25.]

[Footnote 113: Bina tunc jugera populo Romano satis erat, nullique
majorem modum attribuit, quo servos paulo ante principis Neronis,
contemptis hujus spatii Virdariis, piscinas juvat habere majores,
gratumque, si non aliquem & culinas. _Plin. Hist. Nat. lib._ xviii.
_c._ 2.]

[Footnote 114: Interea gustus elements per omnia quaerunt. _Juv. Sat.
4._]

[Footnote 115: Cicero. _Epist._ Lib. 7. _Ep._ 26. _Complaining of a
costly Sallet, that had almost cost him his Life_.]

[Footnote 116: Valeriana, _That of_ Lectucini, Achilleia, Lysimachia,
Fabius, Cicero, Lentulus, Piso, &c. a Fabis, Cicere, Lente, Pisis bene
serendis dicti, _Plin._]

[Footnote 117: Mirum esset non licere pecori Carduis vesci, non licet
plebei, &c. _And in another Place_, Quoniam portenta quoque terrarum in
ganeam vertimus, etiam quae refugeant quadrupeded consciae, _Plin._ Hist.
Nat. l. xix. c. 8.]

[Footnote 118: Gra. Falisc. _Gyneget_. Was. _See concerning this Excess_
Macr. _Sat. l. 2. c. 9._ & sequ.]

[Footnote 119: Horti maxime placebant, quia non egerent igni,
parcerentque ligno, expedita res, & parata semper, unde _Acetaria_
appellantur, facilia concoqui, nee oneratura sensum cibo, & quae minime
accenderent desiderium panis. _Plin. Hist. Nat. Lib._ xix. _c._ 4. _And
of this exceeding Frugality of the_ Romans, _till after the_ Mithridatic
_War, see_ Athenaeus Deip. Lib. 6. cap. 21. Horat. _Serm. Sat._ 1.]

[Footnote 120: Nequam esse in domo matrem familias (etenim haec cura
Foeminae dicebatur) ubi indiligens esset hortus.]

[Footnote 121: Alterum succidium. _Cic._ in _Catone_. Tiberias _had a
Tribute of_ Skirrits _paid him_.]

[Footnote 122: Hor. _Sat. l. 2._ Vix prae vino sustinet palpebras, eunti
in consilium, &c. _See the Oration of_ C. _Titius_ de Leg. Fan. Mac
_Sat. l. 2. c. 12._]

[Footnote 123: Milton's _Paradise_, 1. v. ver. 228.]

[Footnote 124:

At victus illa aetas cui secimus aurea nomen
Fructibus arboreis, & quas humus educat herbis
Fortunata fuit.----_Met. xv._]

[Footnote 125: Bene moratus venter.]

[Footnote 126: TAB. II.]

[Footnote 127:

Foelix, quem misera procul ambitione remotum,
Parvus ager placide, parvus & hortus, alit.
Praebet ager quicquid frugi natura requirit,
Hortus habet quicquid luxuriosa petit,
Caetera follicitae speciosa incommoda vitae
Permittit stultis quaerere, habere malis.
_Cowley_, Pl. lib. iv.]

[Footnote 128: Plin. Athenaeus, Macrobius, Bacon, Boyle, Digby, _&c._]

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