"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way."
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Source: On the death of Mr Levett, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 139 (20 January 1782)
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