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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

And at noon to dinner at the Popes head ... Here, very pretty
discourse of Dr. Charleton concernign Nature's fashioning every
creature's teeth according to the food she intends them.  And that
man's, it is plain, was not for flesh, but for fruit.  And that he
can at any time tell the food of a beast unknown, by the teeth.
My Lord Brouncker made one or two objections to it; that creatures
find their food proper for their teeth, rather then that the teeth
was fitted for the food.  But the Doctor, I think, did well
observe that creates do naturally, and from the first, before they
have had experience to try, do love such a food rather than
another.  And that all children love fruit, and none brought to
flesh but against their wills at first.

But at supper there [Lord Lauderdale's house] played one of their
servants upon the viallin, some Scotch tunes only---several---and
the best of their country, as they seemed to esteem them by their
praising and admiring them; but Lord, the strangest ayre that ever
I heard in my life, and all of one cast.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 28 Jul. 1666

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