Porter, if both are at Dinner on the ſame Ox or Calf, but in the ſeaſoning, the dreſſing, the garniſhing, and the ſetting forth. Hence the one provokes and incites the moſt languid Appetite, and the other turns and palls that which is the ſharpeſt and keeneſt.
In like manner, the Excellence of the mental Entertainment conſiſts leſs in the Subject, than in the Author’s Skill in well dreſſing it up. How pleaſed therefore will the Reader be to find, that we have, in the following Work, adhered cloſely to one of the higheſt Principles of the beſt Cook which the preſent Age, or perhaps that of Heliogabalus, hath produced. This great Man, as is well known to all polite Lovers of eating, begins at firſt by ſetting plain Things before his hungry Gueſts, riſing afterwards by Degrees, as their Stomachs may be ſuppoſed to decreaſe, to the very Quinteſſence of Sauce and Spices. In like manner, we ſhall repreſent Human Nature at firſt to the keen Appetite of our Reader, in that more plain and ſimple Manner in which it is found in the Country, and ſhall hereafter haſh and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian Seaſoning of Affectation and Vice which Courts and Cities afford.By
