"The better the salad, the worse the dinner."

"Four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt, and …"

"A Sallet without wine is raw, unwholesome, dangerous."

"On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, On pippins’ russet peel; And, when his juicy salads failed, Sliced carrot pleased hi…"

"Sallets in general consist of certain Esculent Plants and Herbs, improv'd by Culture, Industry, and Art of the Gard'n…"

"But there now starts up a Question, Whether it were better, or more proper, to Begin with Sallets, or End and Conclud…"

"He that sups upon salad, goes not to bed fasting."

"The shepherdess, who lives on salad, To cool her youth, controuls her palate;"

"Lettuce cooleth the heat of the stomacke, called the heart-burning; and helpeth it when it is troubled with choler: i…"

"A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out as good for nothing."