Volume 2

Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1930
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fumifugium : now reissued as an Old Ashmolean reprint in the year of the refacing of the Old Ashmolean museum / by John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inconvenience and fome danger: The fame might be affirm’d of FiJhmongersy fo wittily perftringed by Erafmusy perd Salfamentarios nempey inquinari Chit at em, infici ter ram y fluminay aerem & ignemy & Ji quod aliud ejl elementum. Then for the Butcher; That the Lex Carnaria of the Romans forbad them to kill, or have their Slaughter-houfes within the Walls ; that they had a certain Station affign’d them without; ne f pajjim vivant, tot am urhem reddant peJHlent era: So as, were the people to choofe, malunt (fays he) habere vicinos decern Lenonesy quam unum Lanionem; They would rather dwell neer Ten Bawds, then One Butcher: But this is infulfus Salfamentariusy a quibble of the Fijhmongers. I could yet wifh that our nafty Prifons and Common Goales might bear them Company; fince I affirm they might all be remov’d to fome diflant places neer the River, the fitua- tion whereof does fo invite, and rarely contribute to the effedling of it. But if the Avarice of the men of this Age be fo far deplorable, that we may not hope for fo abfolute a cure of all that is offenfive; at leaf! let fuch, whofe Works are upon the Margent of the <Thamesy and which are indeed the mod: intolerable, be banifhed further off, and not once dare to approach that filver Channel (but at the didance prefcrib’d) which glides by her dately Palaces, and irrigates her welcome Banks. What a new Spirit would thefe eafie Remedies create among the Inhabitants of London? what another Genius infufe in the face of things? and, there is none but ob* d ’i^vofxyia. G 2 ferves,