LUPINE. 



relish to the Egyptian beer, as our country people 

 introduce cheese. 



That root 



^Vhich comes of Syrian seed, which sliced is giveu 

 With moist'ned Lupines join'd, that it may 

 Provoke fresh bumpers of Pehisian beer. 



Lib. 10. 



The eating of Lupines was also thought io 

 brighten the mind, and quicken the imagination. 

 It is related of Protogenes, a celebrated painter of 

 Rhodes, who flourished about three hundred and 

 twenty-eight years before Christ, that, during the 

 seven years he was employed in painting the hunt- 

 ing-piece of Jalysus, who was supposed to be the 

 founder of the state of Rhodes, he lived entirely 

 upon Lupines and water, with an idea that this 

 aliment would give him greater flights of fancy. 

 It was in this picture that he wished to introduce a 

 dog panting, with foam at his mouth ; but not suc- 

 ceeding to his satisfaction, he threw his sponge upon 

 the painting in a fit of anger, when chance brought 

 to perfection what the utmost of his art could not 

 accomplish, for the sponge falling on the wet paint 

 that was intended to represent the foam, gave it so 

 much the appearance of reality, that the piece was 

 universally admired. 



We shall relate another anecdote of this Lupine- 

 eating painter, to show in what reverence the artists 

 were held in those early days. 



