stands in: dear heart, what do you desire? You may well trust the matter to me: for I have experienced for 24 years that which I am describing to you through my small book. Take it then with gratitude, and make use of it, it is all heartily wished for you. Recommending only that you do not tell your Husbands that it comes from me, so that they are not jealous: also I fear that they would rather hear talk of drinking than of eating, (I say many of them) which by nature is very contrary to me, so that I have always sided here with the little ladies, who enjoy eating well and drinking not badly. I also declare upon my truth, that I would rather eat merrily and deliciously seven times, than get drunk once. A Cimmerian, Phagelipofian a gluttonous person; from Greek "eater of food", or feast-master, speaking of the species of our Entrance and Exit, said that he wished he could recreate himself three times a day. First, he wanted to be changed entirely into throat or gullet, to better be able to enjoy the entrance or pleasure of drinking: second, he wanted to be entirely intestine, to better be able to enjoy the sweetness and

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release of the exit; and lastly, he wanted to be entirely nature, so that the sweet tickle could give him his satisfaction. Another nearby asked, why he would not likewise want to be entirely palate or tongue, to better incorporate the tastes of food? He answered that eating was for the farmers, but drinking for the Noblemen: as if he meant that such female persons had more need of coarse foods for the maintenance of their daily labor than others who are of more subtle stuff and less digestion. But I strike this down at once, and say that we are not speaking of many things or only of eating, but of delicious, delicate, and lovely eating: so if someone would want to say that we were dull gluttons, I would say that they were beastly Cimmerians. Now well then, I will make my proposition short, it can just as well be too long as too short, I have the firm feeling that you will well understand my meaning, and clearly indicate that one should not trifle with our entering things: which can be understood by no one better than