part of my time, were such whose generous costs never weighed the expence, so that they might arrive to that right and high esteem they had of their gustos. Whosoever peruses this volume shall find it amply exemplified in dishes of such high prices, which only their Noblesses hospitalities did reach to: I should have sinned against their to-be-perpetuated bounties, if I had not set down their several varieties, that the Reader might be as well acquainted with what is extraordinary as what is ordinary in this Art; as I am truly sensible that some of those things that I have set down will amaze a not-thorow-paced Reader in the Art of Cookery, as they are delicates, never till this time made known to the World.
"As those already extant authors have traced but one common beaten road, repeating for the main what others have in the same homely manner done before them; it hath been my task to denote
