An Objection may perhaps be apprehended from the more delicate, that this Diſh is too common and vulgar; for what elſe is the Subject of all the Romances, Novels, Plays, and Poems, with which the Stalls abound. Many exquiſite Viands might be rejected by the Epicure, if it was a ſufficient Cauſe for his contemning of of them as common and vulgar, that ſomething was to be found in the moſt paultry Alleys under the ſame Name. In reality, true Nature is as difficult to be met with in Authors, as the Bayonne Ham or Bologna Sausage is to be found in the Shops.
But the whole, to continue the ſame Metaphor, conſiſts in the Cookery of the Author; for, as Mr. Pope tells us,
True Wit is Nature to Advantage dreſt,
What oft’ was thought, but ne’er ſo well expreſt.
The ſame Animal which hath the Honour to have ſome Part of his Fleſh eaten at the Table of a Duke, may perhaps be degraded in another Part, and ſome of his Limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vileſt Stall in Town. Where then lies the Difference between the Food of the Nobleman and thePorter,
