Of the ‘Medicinal Virtues 
For nothing can be more available to 
health and long life, than a fedate quiet 
minde, attended with thefe Rurall delights, 
a healthful Air, and moderate Exercife, 
which may here be found in all feafons of 
the year. 
Thrice happy they who thefe delights purfue , 
For fohether they their Plants in order view , 
Or overladen boughs with props relieve. 
Or if to forreign Fruits new names they give , 
If they the tafl of evry Plum explore. 
To cat at fecond courfe , What would they 
more ? 
What greater happinefs can be defir'd, > 
Than what by thefe diver (tons is acquir'd .<? 
Rapinus. 
. The Fruits of the Earth, and efpecially 
2 /cider, of Trees, were the firft Food ordained for 
man to eat, and by eating of which ( be¬ 
fore fiefh became his meat) he lived to a 
far greater age, than fince any have been 
obferved to" have lived. And of all the 
Fruits our Northern parts produce, there’s 
none more edible, nor more wholelome, 
than Apples j which by the various prepa¬ 
rations 
