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A13456	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	The great eater, of Kent, or Part of the admirable teeth and stomacks exploits of Nicholas Wood, of Harrisom in the county of Kent His excessiue manner of eating without manners, in strange and true manner described, by Iohn Taylor.	1630		.xml	application/xml	5839	116	48	Caligula was famous for Ambition , for hee would bee ador'd as a God , though he liu'd like a Deuill , poysoning his Vnkle and deflowring all his Sisters : And in all ages and Countries , time hath still produc'd particular persons , men & women , either for their vertues or their vices , to be remembred , that by meditating on the good , we may bee imitating their goodnesse , and by viewing the bad , we might be eschewing their vices . Herostratus was famous for burning the Temple of Diana in Ephesus : Dedalus for flying in the Ayre , and Leander for swimming ouer the Hellespontick sea : So by this small Treatise of your vertues , will your vnmatchable exploits be preserued to posterity , that time , or obliuion shall neuer eate out or deuoure the happy memory of your eating ; Yet ( not to flatter you ) though you are the absolutest man of mouth , and the most renowned stifgut in this Westerne Angle of the World , yet we haue as great or greater Faters then your selfe , which are scarcely thought vpon : there are some , that with the vnsauoury sawce of Enuy , will eate vp a mans name and reputation , and leaue nothing but the bones and scraps of infamy and scandall ; some eate vp whole Lordships without Mannours , and some deuoure Mannours and leaue nothing but bare Lordships : your exercise is onely for the Maw , and your Excellency consists totally in Crambo ; I haue done my best to please and pleasure you .	cache/A13456.xml	txt/A13456.txt
