NORTHERN MEMOIRS 



f manners, it matters not. We are capable 

 enough to distinguish academies from ale-houses, 

 and change houses from a royal-exchange. What 

 matters it then for cooks, where every man may 

 dress his own commons ? and let the provision 

 of this day's exercise (if trout and plover be food 

 fit for travellers) be my care ; and Tie supervise 

 the roast, whilst you rest your self, and send 

 you summons upon the first savory scent. 



Am. You have very well contriv'd to salute 

 our mouths with a modicum, lest our appetites 

 alienate ; for if fasting too long brings equal 

 danger with a riot of feasting, a surfeit of either 

 may impare the mediocrity of health : for as the 

 one ushers in fevers that terminate in flames, so 

 the other, in regard of its moist frigidity, melts 

 all the members into a deluge, by extinguishing 

 the irradiating vital heat; which insensibly draws 

 on a deprav'd ferment, preternatural to the ar- 

 ch eus or rector of the ventricle. Thus we range 

 the world, by rifling Scotland, to refresh our 

 selves ; and blot out those limpid streams of 

 Trespey, that glide so smoothly near to the fa- 

 mous foundations of Bogagieth ; which beyond 

 dispute discovers the glory of Scotland epito- 

 miz'd in this short day's expedition. 



Theoph. Now should the flaming steeds of the 

 sun touch the cusp of the horizon before we rise, 

 would not all mankind conclude us affected with 



