As we do not diſdain to borrow Wit or Wiſdom from any Man who is capable of lending us either, we have condeſcended to take a Hint from theſe honeſt Victuallers, and ſhall prefix not only a general Bill of Fare to our whole Entertainment, but ſhall likewiſe give the Reader particular Bills to every Courſe which is to be ſerved up in this and the enſuing Volumes.
The Proviſion, then, which we have here made is no other than Human Nature. Nor do I fear that my ſenſible Reader, though moſt luxurious in his Taſte, will ſtart, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one Article. The Tortoiſe, as the Alderman of Briſtol, well learned in eating, knows by much Experience, beſides the delicious Calibaſh 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 ſuch prodigious ſariety, that a Cook will have ſooner gone through all the ſeveral Species of animal and vegetable Food in the World, than an Author will be able to exhauſt ſo extenſive a Subject.
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