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I fpied an antient Engle going down the bill.] Coming down the bill." Folio. 1632, and Sir Tho, HanmerTAL

Id. ib. Tra. What is be, Biondello ?text Bion. Mafter a merchant, or else a pedant.] "Or a pedant." Folio 1632.

Id. ib. Take in your love.]" "Take me your love. Folio 1632, and Sir The. Hanmer. Sc, 6. p. 455. Catharina to Grumio." Cath. 1 prytbee go, and get me fome repast," Tcare not what, fo it be wholefome food.

Gru. What fay you to a neat's foot?

Cath. 'Tis paffing good, I pr'ytbee let me bave it. Gru. I fear, it is too flegmatick a meat: bow fay you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?

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Cath. I like it well, good Grumio fetch it me. Gru. I cannot tell; I fear it's cholerick What fay you to a piece of beef and mustard? Cath. A difh that I do love to feed upon. Gru. Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little. Cath. Why then the beef, and let the mustard

Gru. Nay, then I will not, ye shall have the muftard, or elfe you get no beef of Grumio.

Cath. Then both, or one, or any thing thou wilt. Gru. Why then the mustard without the beef Cath. Go get thee gone, thou falfe deluding knave, Beats him.] That feed ft me with the very name of meat Sorrow on thee, and all the pack of you,

That triumph thus upon my mifery.

Go get thee gone, I fay,]

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This feems to be borrow'd from Cervantes's account of Sancho Panfa's treatment by his phyfician, when fham Governour of the Inland of Barataria. [See Motteux's tranflation of Don Quixote, vol. 4. chap. 67. p. 452.] "The "history informs us, that Sancho was con"ducted from the court of justice to a fumptuous palace, where in a fpacious room he found the cloth laid; and a moft neat "and magnificent entertainment prepared. As "foon as he entred, the wind mufick plaid, "and four pages waited on him, in order to "the washing of his hands, which he did with a

great deal of gravity. And now the inftruments ceafing, Sancho fate down at the upper "end of the table; for there was no feat but there, and the cloth was only laid for one.

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"A certain perfonage, who afterwards ap❝peared to be a phyfician, came and stood at his

elbow, with a whalebone-wand in his hand. "Then they took off a curious white cloth "that lay over the dishes on the table, and "discover❜d great variety of fruit, and other eatables. One that look'd like a student said grace, a page put a laced bib under Sancho's "chin; and another who did the office of a fteward, fet a difh of fruit before him. But "he had hardly put one bit into his mouth, "before the physician touch'd the dish with his "wand, and then it was taken away by the

page in the inftant. Immediately another with meat was clapp'd in the place, but

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"Sancho, no fooner offer'd to tafte of it, but the doctor with the wand conjur'd it away as faft as the fruit. Sancho was amaz'd at this fudden removal, and looking about him upon the company, afk'd, whether they used to tantalife people at that rate? feeding their "eyes, eyes, and ftarving their bellies. My Lord Governour, faid the Phyfician, you are to eat no otherwife than according to the ufe and "cuftom of other iflands, where there are "Governours, I am a doctor of phyfick, my "Lord, and have a falary for taking a charge "of the Governour's health

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Therefore I દ now order'd the fruit to be taken away because "'tis exceeding moift, and the other difh, be"caufe 'tis as much too hot, and over-feafon'd "with fpices, which are apt to increase thirst, "and he that drinks much deftroys the radical

moisture, which is the fuel of life. So then, ઠંડ quoth Sancho, the dish of roafted partridges here can do me no manner of harm. Hold, faid the phyfician, the Lord Governour shall not eat of them, while I live to prevent it:

Why fo, cry'd Sancho? Because, answer'd the "doctor, our great mafter Hippocrates, the "North ftar, and luminary of phyfick, fays in

one of his aphorifms, omnis faturatio eft mala, Perdicis autem peffima: that is, all repletion is "bad, but that of partridges is worst of all. If "it be fo, faid, Sancho, let Mr. Doctor fee, "which of all these dishes on the table will do

me moft good,and leaft harm,and let me eat my

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belly-full of that, without having it whifk'd away with his wand. For by my hopes,

and the pleasures of government as I live, I "am ready to die with hunger, and not to al"low me any victuals-is the way to fhorten

my life, and not to lengthen it. Very true, "my Lord, reply'd the phyfician, however I am of opinion, that you ought not to eat of thefe rabbets, as being a tough, and acute kind of food, nor would I have you tafte of. "that veal, indeed, if it were neither roafted, “nor stew'd, something might be faid; but as દ it is, it must not be. Well, faid Sancho, "What think you of that huge difh yonder, "that fimokes fo? I take it to be an olla podrida (an olio) and that being a bodge podge of fo many forts of victuals, fure I can't but kc light of fomething there that will nick me; and be both wholefome, and toothfome, "Abfit, cry'd the doctor, far be fuch an ill thought from us; no diet in the world yields * a worse nutriment than those wish-washes do: no, leave that rich compound to your rich monks and prebendaries, your masters of colleges, and lufty feeders at country weddings: but let them not incumber the tables of Governours, where nothing but delicate, un"mix'd viands in their prime ought to make τές a figure. The reafon is, that fimple medi

cines are generally allow'd to be better than compounds: for in a compofition there may "happen to be a mistake through the unequal proportion

proportion of the ingredients: but fimples

are not fubject to that accident. Therefore "what I would advise at prefent, as a fit diet " for the Governour, for the preservation of his "health, is a hundred of fmall wafers, and a "few, thin flices of marmalade, to strengthen "his stomach, and help digeftion. Sancho "hearing this, lean'd back upon his chair, "and looking earnestly in the doctor's face,

very seriously afk'd him what his name was, "and where he had ftudied? My Lord, an"fwered he, I am call'd Doctor Pedro Rezio "de Aguerro; the name of the place where I was born is Tirteafuero, and lies between Caroquil and Almodobor del Campo, on the right "hand: and I took my degree of doctor, in "the university of Offuna. Hark you, faid "Sancho in a mighty chafe, Mr. Doctor Pedro "Rezio de Aguerro, native of Tirteafuero, that "lies between Caroquil and Almodobor del Campo, "on the right, and who took your degree of "doctor in the univerfity of Offuna, and fo << forth, be gone! or by the life of Pharao, Pll get me a good cudgel, and beginning with

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your carcass, will fo belabour, and rib roaft: "all the phyfick-mongers of this island, that "I'll not leave there one of the tribe, of those, "I mean that are ignorant quacks; for, as for "learn'd and wife physicians, I'll make much "of them, and honour them like fo many angels. Once more, Ifay, Pedro Rezio get out of my prefence: avaunt, or I'll take the chair I fit "upon,