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make a fallct of fcallions, cives and chi- 

 bouls, with oil and pepper j and an ho- 

 ned laborious countryman there, with 

 good bread, fait, and a little parfley, 

 will m.ake a contented meal with a roaft- 

 ed onion. And the fame may be faid 

 of France, Spain, Holland-, &c. where 

 meat is not fo much efteemed. 



The virtues of garlick (much ranker 

 than the onion) is fuperlatively greater, 

 giving a kind relifh to every thing where 

 it is ufed, corroborating the fiomach, 

 and cutting the phlegm; and in fliort, 

 aduating and difcovering it felf in all 

 the ofEces of life, health and llrength; 

 being the moll excellent pcdoral that 

 grows in the garden ; and faid to be ve- 

 ry efficacious in all conjugal perform- 

 ances. An antient gentleman, who 

 had well experienc'd the truth of this, 

 faid, he ufed to eat plentifully of the 

 cloves of garlick with roaft mutton 

 and gravy fauce, that he might propa- 

 gate his fpecies till he was fourfcore 

 years of age. To come to fad, a gen- 

 tleman, a neighbour too, and that ufed 

 to frequent the agreeable ihades of Wood- 

 flock-, (now Blenheim) arrived to near an 

 hundred and twenty years of age, with- 



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