j6 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



balfams, &c. which he affects to ridicule in the 

 beginning of his chapter, as the prefcription 

 of other men, forgot in the latter end, to be 

 recommended as a part of his own intire new 

 practice. 



With what confequence, at the fame time, 

 with what fterling humour, Mr. Taplin def- 

 cants on the weighty fubjects of drinks, glyf- 

 ters, and glyfler-pipes. Unfortunately, all the 

 thoughts, as ufual, are fecond hand, and maybe 

 found in the authors who preceded him, not 

 forgetting that very ufeful one, of the juft pre- 

 ference of a pipe and bag, before a fyringe ! 

 Who would befides expect, to find in Mr. 

 Taplin's book, as many glyfrers and drinks 

 ordered, as in that of any other author, after 

 he has, in fo conlequential a ftyle, affumed to 

 himfelf the merit of abolifhing fuch flovenly 

 methods. 



I have already far exceeded my propofed 

 limits, in the examination of the Stable Direc- 

 tory, which my refpecl: for the public alone, 

 who have purchafed a confiderable number of 

 that extraordinary work, could have induced 

 me to extend beyond the fpace of half a dozen 

 lines. If my intelligent reader mould chufe 

 for his amufement to proceed, he will find the 

 fame pompous and illiterate impertinence, the 

 fame mconfiftence, blunder and contradiction ; 

 the accuilomed plagiarifm and unfair quota- 

 tion, 



