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?h][ �V I. Terre. Fifius. with fuch luxuriancy, that, unlef? timdy Iopt they will endanger the whole T rt z Ever tinct that time, (the Reformatto?O and long before, great numbers of people go every year OXFORD and Ca?asa?oz to eat the (as other people go to T v t4 n a ? nt; E and B a to drink the W a a' ass,) for which there are four

_feeaJ3m, which they call terms s but it is to be

rv'd, that wherea.? the waters are allow'd promif- cuoufly to both foxes, the app/es are permitted to be eaten by none but men, they being too cious and flrong a food for female digeltion; yet �ome women have violent inclinations to them, and, like their g,:eat-grandmother E v �, wit! c:op an app!e? when they think no body fee; them, or P?�al one out of their brothe,'s pockets, when they come from the umverfity orchard. Concerning the �everal virtues of there academica? apples, I beg leave of my reader, as I profefi my fctf a phi!o?l?hical coffermonger, to make a few oblerva- tions. The,.th. eological apple, when it was firit brought over htthdr? was a t?n6fl: excellent, whol�ome, and deliciou; fruit, pleating to the eye, and agreeable to the 1tomach; it debauch'd no body's eonltitution. naufeated no body's appetite, depra?t'd no body'u underltandin?, and plunder'd no body's pocket: But, in lengSh of time, the whole plantation being enarofi'd by one kt of .me?, they made it their bushel}, like othe'r monopolizers, to make their com. modity parce, in order to make it dear; and havml? poifon'd all the natural growth, made ufe 9f h?..bedt, and other ?rcing inventions, to Faire juf? frutt ?ough to ferve their cuRomers, who now con fiRed chieBy of bumouri& and old men i by there methods they vimted the original ,p?, sad r?d?'d, what was at firR ?ksfant and