of Eggs.

SECTION XXII:
The best Ways for the Dressing of Artichocks.

SECTION XXIII:
Shewing the best way of making Diet for the Sick.

SECTION XXIV:
Excellent Ways for Feeding of Poultrey.

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_To the Right Honourable my _Lord Montague,_ My _Lord Lumley,_
and my _Lord Dormer;_ and to the Right worshipful Sir
_Kenelme Digby,_ so well known to this Nation for their
Admired Hospitalities._

_Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful_,

He is an Alien, a meer Stranger in _England_, that hath not been
acquainted with your generous House-keepings; for my own part my
more particular tyes of service to you my Honoured Lords, have built
me up to the height of this Experience, for which this Book now at
last dares appear to the World; those times which I tended upon your
Honours were those Golden Days of Peace and Hospitality when you
enjoyed your own, so as to entertain and releive others.

Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful, I have not only been an
eye-witness, but interested by my attendance; so as that I may
justly acknowledge those Triumphs and magnificent Trophies of
Cookery that have adorned your Tables; nor can I but confess to the
world, except I should be Guilty of the highest Ingratitude, that
the only structure of this my Art and knowledge, I owed to your
costs, generous and inimitable Epences; thus not only I have derived
my experience, but your Country hath reapt the Plenty of your
Humanity and charitable Bounties.

Right Honourable, and Right Worshipful, Hospitality which was once a
Relique of the Gentry, and a known Cognizance to all ancient Houses,
hath lost her Title through the unhappy and Cruel Disturbances of
these Times, she is now reposing of her lately so alarmed Head on
your beds of Honour: In the mean space that our English World may
know the _Mecaena_'s and Patrons of this Generous Art, I have exposed
this Volume to the Publick, under the Tuition of your Names; at
whose Feet I prostrate these Endeavours, and shall for ever remain

_Your most humble devoted Servant._
_ROBERT MAY._

_From _Soleby_ in _Leicestershire_,
September 29. 1684._

_To the Master Cooks, and to such young Practitioners
of the Art of Cookery, to whom this Book may be useful._

To you first, most worthy Artists, I acknowledg on