THE

POEM S

OF

WILLIAM KING, LL. D.

STUDENT OF CHRIST-CHURCH,

ADVOCATE OF DOCTOR'S COMMONS, &c. &c.

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THE

ART OF COOKERY;

IN IMITATION OF

HORACE'S ART OF POETRY.

WITH SOME

LETTERS TO DR. LISTER AND OTHERS,

OCCASIONED PRINCIPALLY BY

The Title of a Book published by the Doctor, being the Works of APICIUS COELIUS, "concerning the Soups and Sauces "of the Ancients."

With an Extract of the greatest Curiofities
contained in that Book.

Humbly infcribed to the Honourable

BEEF STEAK

CLUB

First printed in 1708.

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66

OF Dr. Lifter's book only 120 copies were printed in 1705. It was re-printed at Amsterdam, in 1709, by Theod. Janf. Almeloveen, under the title of Apicii Coelii de Opfoniis & Condimentis, five Arte Coquinaria, Libri Decem. Cum Annotationibus "Martini Lifter, è Medicis Domefticis Sereniffimæ "Majeftatis Reginæ Annæ, & Notis felectioribus, "variifque Lectionibus integris, Humelbergii, Barthii, "Reinefii, A Van Der Linden, & aliorum, ut & va"riarum Lectionum Libello. Editio Secunda." Afkew had a copy of each edition, N.

Dr.

THE

PUBLISHER

TO THE

READER.

IT is now-a-days the hard fate of fuch as pretend to be Authors, that they are not permitted to be maflers of their own works; for, if fuch papers (however imperfect) as may be called a copy of them, either by a fervant or any other means, come to the hands of a Bookfeller, he never confiders whether it be for the perfon's reputation to come into the world, whether it is agreeable to his fentiments, whether to his ftyle or correctness, or whether he has for fome time looked over it; nor doth he care what name or character he puts to it, fo he imagines he may get by it.

It was the fate of the following Poem to be so used, and printed with as much imperfection and as many miftakes as a Bookfeller that has common fenfe could imagine fhould pafs upon the town, efpecially in an age fo polite and critical as the prefent.

Thefe following Letters and Poem were at the prefs fome time before the other paper pretending to the fame title was crept out: and they had elfe, as the Learned fay, groaned under the prefs till fuch time as the fheets had one by one been perufed and conected, not only by the Author, but his friends, whofe judgement, as