stry, banketting dishes, and fruit
curiously wrought and prepared; that, his Table might be furnished
with choice of varieties, (as the noble Lord _Lumley_ did) that he
kept and nourished all manner of Fowl all the year long. To this
purpose he telleth us a story how _Pompey_ being sick, the
Physitians willed him to eat a Thrush, and it being said there was
none to be had; because it was then Summer; it was answered they
might have them at _Lucullus_'s house who kept both Thrushes and all
manner of Fowl, all the year long. This _Lucullus_ was for his
Hospitality so esteemed in _Rome_, that there was no talk, but of
his Noble House-keeping. The said _Plutarch_ reports how _Cicero_
and _Pompey_ inviting themselves to sup with him, they would not let
him speak with his men to provide any thing more then ordinary; but
he telling them he would sup in _Apollo_, (a Chamber so named, and
every Chamber proportioned their expences) he by this wile beguil'd
them, and a supper was made ready estimated at fifty thousand pence,
every _Roman_ penny being seven pence half penny _English_ money;
a vast sum for that Age, before the _Indies_ had overflowed
_Europe_. But I have too far digressed from the Author of whom I
might speak much more as in relation to his Person and abilities,
but who will cry out the Sun shines? this already said is enough to
satisfie any but the malicious, who are the greatest enemies to all
honest endeavours. _Homer_ had his _Zoilus_, and _Virgil_ his
_Bavius_; the best Wits have had their detractors, and the greatest
Artists have been maligned; the best on't is, such Works as these
outlive their _Authors_ with an honurable respect of Posterity,
whilst envious Criticks never survive their own happiness, their
Lives going out like the snuff of a Candle.

_W. W._

_Triumphs and Trophies in Cookery, to be used at Festival Times,
as _Twelfth-day_, &c._

Make the likeness of a Ship in Paste-board, with Flags and
Streamers, the Guns belonging to it of Kickses, bind them about with
packthread, and cover them with close paste proportionable to the
fashion of a Cannon with Carriages, lay them in places convenient as
you see them in Ships of war, with such holes and trains of powder
that they may all take Fire; Place your Ship firm in the great
Charger; then make a salt round about it, and stick therein
egg-shells full of sweet water, you may by a great Pin take all the
meat out of the egg by blowing