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Lhe Frvurt-Garpven Muftrated. 
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LET me; to clofe the Account of thele two Liquors, affure you, 
that I have heard them authoritatively intitled the Devonfhire Stire ; 1 
have feen Bourdeaux and even Burgundy ftand melancholy and negheted 
before them ; and I have heard W bite Wine called for to cool nie 
Cyders. 
AND fo much for Royal Wilding and bier. You defired to be 
alfo inform’ d of the Mediate, ot (as our common People pronounce it) 
Meadeate. The Apple itfelf hath been fent you, and therefore I fay 
nothing of its Size, Figure, °c. only I muft tell you (which I fhould 
alfo have faid of the Whitfour) that it is a weryconftant and plentiful 
Bearer every other Yeaty and maketh a very handfome (tho’ no exceeding 
large) Tree, nor (if I miftake not) is it as liable to ob pet as moft 
other Trees aes 
THE E Juices of it have all the Body and Roughnep of the two ice 
Cyders before fpoken of, and make good Advances to the fame Golden 
Colour ; but, alas! want the perfecting and diftinguifbing Flavour of 
thofe Unparalle ds: Nor when made by itfelf is ic ever (or' very tarely 
es. bat and ait od not hd — Att as I could hever yet be a 
Ret-of gore be drunk Wp Fat 282 ACE tafle-forne Cyder 
fea toa Genital for "Prelene “heh Was id to be All of ‘this Sort, 
and which might vie with the beft Royal Wilding or Whitfour ; but had 
I been to talk with ‘the Maker ‘himfelf, Ii imagine I fhould have found 
there: was a ‘Mixture of other Fruit with it’: This is fure; chat by Means 
of its Noble Body, and excellent Roughnefs; it is a molt waluable Apple, 
and becomes an excellent Ingredient i in Cydet,; efpecially difcreetly forted 
with Fruit of a brisker and qiicker Nacuré.-. 
- ['T: js commonly faid to have its Name from a ‘Meadow Gate, heat 
which the original Plant (the happy Parent of this Jaudable Apple) firt 
flood; for in the vulgar Dialeé&t of our Country, we call a Meadow 
Mend, (I know not how to convey to you the’ tiue Sound of that laft 
Spelling) and by the fame Way of {peaking we call a Gate a Yeate, (as 
the Lawyers write yeoven fot given) and thefe Words put together in our 
common Pronunciation _ will afford en which is eafily pafled 
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