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The poyſon'd Weeds: I have ſeen a Man, who was ſo poyſon'd with it, that the Skin peel'd off his Face, and yet he never touch'd it, only looked on it as he paſs'd by. Mr. Stafford, Philoſ. Tranſact. Vol. III. Num. xl. p. 794.
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Cowley, Garden, Miſcel. Stanz. 8.
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Sapores minime Conſentientes και συμπλεκο-υας ουχι συμφωνους αφας:
Haec deſpicere ingenioſi eſt artificis: Neither did the Artiſt mingle his Proviſions without extraordinary Study and Conſideration: Αλλα μιξας παντα κατα συμφωνιαν.
Horum ſingulis ſeorſum aſſumptis, tu expedito: Sic ego tanquam Oraculo jubeo. —— Itaque literarum ignarum Coquum, tu cum videris, & qui Democriti ſcripta omnia non perlegerit, vel potius, impromptu non habeat, eum deride ut futilem: Ac ilium Mercede conducito, qui Epicuri Canonen uſu plane didicerit, &c. as it follows in the Gaſtronomia of Archeſtratus, Athen. lib. xxiii. Such another Bragadoccio Cook Horace deſcribes
Nec ſibi Coenarum quivis temere arroget artem
Non prius exacta tenui ratione ſaporem.
Sat. lib. ii. Sat. 4.