Mulli.
Mullets of the River be of like goodness with the Sea-Mullets,
Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
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- Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.
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- Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604.
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- London, :: Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thomson, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard,
- 1655.
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- Diet -- Early works to 1800.
- Food -- Early works to 1800.
- Nutrition -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Healths improvement: or, Rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation. Written by that ever famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: corrected and enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89219.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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though not fully of so fine and pure substance. Philoxenus the Poet, supping at the lower mess in Dio∣nisius Court; took suddenly a little leane Mullet out of the dish▪ and set his ear to the mouth of it; where∣at Dionysius laughing, and asking him what newes? marry (quoth he) he tells me of some strange newes in the Ri∣ver, whereof none (as he saith) can more fully enform me then yonder great Mullet in the upper dish: so for his pleasant jest he got the greater; and withall gives us to note, that unless a Mullet be large and fat, it is but a frivolous dish, making a great shew on the Table, but little nourishing; how they are best to be drest, is alrea∣dy specified when I wrote of Breams.
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Athen. l. 1. c 3.