Reading Cadence

Ep. 115: A Queen's Delight


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What starts out as an innocent recipe book for healing “water” tonics for literally anything that ails you in the late 1600s, turns you into questioning, “What sound does a snail actually make?” “Would WebMD perhaps prove useful to apothecaries of this era?” “Add 3 GALLONS of beer?!? Hmm... Sounds legit to me.”

0:00 - intro

3:27 - Dramatic Reading of A Queens Delight
25:02 - A (not so) brief discussion

A Queens Delight by E. Tyler and R. Holt (1671)

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https://www.royal.uk/charles-ii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aqua%20vitae
http://www.ra-bugio.org.br/audio/_1767a.wav

Credit to https://www.FesliyanStudios.com for the background music.

Credit to https://www.soundjay.com/ for the sound effects
Podcast Photo P/C: https://www.pexels.com/@luan-oosthuizen-823430/collections/

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