A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tvvas brought by the great Men of the Country to (David (with other NeceiTaries for his Subfiftence) when he was driven from Court 9 and baniihed among therm z Sam„ 17. 29. The Gift of a King, efpecially fiich an one as is to gain a Kindneis by, mu(k not be a Trifle: But we fee Jeroboam's Prefent, by the Hands of the Queen herfelf to the Pro- phet Ahijah, had for one thing a Crufe of Honey. 1 Kings 14. 3, That it was common Food, appears in that John the Baptifi lived chiefly upon Honey which he found about in the Wildernels. And they gave Jefm (after his Refurre- €iion) an Honey-Comb. They could not be fuppofed in their mean Condition to have provided themfelves of Dainties and Pvarities % For they fet before him (together with it) as contrary a Diih as could be thought on to Honey, and as courfe an one as ever was brought to a poor Man's Table, namely fome broken Scraps of a Fiih, which ’had been broiled, and fet by cold. But Honey was counted fo good, and fo ufeftil a thing, that even the Comma onefs and Cheapnds of it cotild not make it delpb fed : For tho? the Poor had io much of it, yet no one efteemed it the iefs for that, but every one eat it. Ifaiah 7. 2z. Butter and Honey Jhall every one eat. E % Solomon
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