3. Fresh-water crayfish, &c. Perche in gely / Crevise dewe douz / pety perueis1 with pe moost, 4. Baked Quinces, 708 Quynces bake / leche dugard / Fruture sage y Sage fritters, &c. Dessert. White apples, caraways, wafers and Ypocras. Clear the Table. A Fish Dinner. First Course. speke of cost, and soteltees fulle soleyn : þat lady pat conseuyd by the holygost presentid plesauntly by pe kynges of coleyn. Afftur þis, delicatis mo. Blaunderelle, or pepyns, with carawey in confite, Waffurs to ete/ypocras to drynk with delite. 716 now pis fest is fynysched/voyd þe table quyte; Go we to pe fysche fest while we haue respite, & pan with goddes grace pe fest wille be do. A Dinere of Fische.2 The Furst Course. 1. Minnows, &c. 2. Porpoise and peas. [Fol. 182.] 3. Fresh Millwell. 4. Roast Pike. "Musclade or 3 menows // with pe Samoun bel 4 lows // eles, lampurns in fere; 720 Peson with pe purpose // ar good potage, as y suppose // as fallethe for tyme of pe yere : Baken herynge // Sugre peron strewynge // grene myllewelle, deyntethe & not dere; 724 pike/lamprey / or Soolis // purpose rosted on 2 Compare "For a servise on fysshe day," Liber Cure, p. 54, and Household Ordinances, p. 449. 3 For of. See 'Sewes on Fische Dayes,* 1. 821. 4 for bellies: see the baly of pe fresch samoun,' 1. 823 in Sewes on Fische Dayes; or it may be for the sounds or breathing apparatus. Pykes in Brasey, H. Ord. p. 451. 5 6 Purpesses, Tursons, or sea-hogs, are of the nature of swine, never good till they be fat.. it is an unsavoury meat . . yet many Ladies and Gentlemen love it exceedingly, bak'd like venison. Mouffet, p. 165. 728 732 736 740 gurnard / lampurnes bake / a leche, & a friture; a semely sotelte folowynge evyn þere. A galaunt yonge mañ, a wanton wight, pypynge & syngynge / lovynge & lyght, Standynge on a clowd, Sanguineus he hight, þe begynnynge of þe sesoñ þat cleped is ver." The second course. "Dates in confyte // Iely red and white // 5. A Divice: A young man piping on a cloud, and called Sanguineus, or Spring. Second Course. 1. Dates and Jelly, Congur, somon, dorray // In sirippe if þey lay // 2. Doree in Syrup, with oper disches in sewynge. Brett / turbut 2 / or haly but // Carpe, base / mylet, 3. Turbot, &c., or trowt // Cheven, breme / renewynge; 3ole / Eles, lampurnes / rost // a leche, a fryture, y 4. Eels, Fritters, 1 ? due-ing, that is, service; not moistening. 2 Rhombi. Turbuts. . some call the Sea-Pheasant whilst they be young. they are called Butts. They are best being sodden. Muffett, p. 173. "Pegeons, buttes, and elis," are paid for as hakys (hawks) mete, on x Sept. 6 R. H(enry VII) in the Howard Household Books, 1481-90, p. 508. 3 Gulls, Guffs, Pulches, Chevins, and Millers-thombs are a kind of jolt-headed Gudgins, very sweet, tender, and wholesome. Muffett, p. 180. Randle Holme says, 'A Chevyn or a Pollarde; it is in Latin called Capitus, from its great head; the Germans Schwall, or Alet; and Myn or Mouen; a Schupfish, from whence we title it a Chub fish. ch. xiv. § xxvii. 6. A Device: A Man of War, red and angry, called Estas, or Summer. Third Course. 1. Almond Cream, &c., 2. Sturgeon, Whelks, Minnows, 3. Shrimps, &c., 4. Fritters. 5. A Device: A Man with a Sickle, tired, called Harvest. Fourth Course. [Fol. 182 b.] Hot apples, Ginger, Wafers, The last Device, Yemps or Winter, with grey locks, sitting on a stone. The thrid course. 2 744 Creme of almond' Iardyne // & mameny // good & fyne // Potage for pe .iijd seruyse. Fresch sturgen / breme de mere // Perche in whelkes, menuse; pus we devise: 748 Shrympis / Fresch herynge bryled // pety perueis may not be exiled, leche fryture, a tansey gyse // The sotelte a mañ with sikelle in his hande, In a ryvere of watur stande / wrapped in wedes in a werysom wyse, 752 hauynge no deynteithe to daunce: Whot appuls & peres with sugre Candy, Wafurs with ypocras. 760 Now pis fest is fynysched / for to make glad chere : and þaughe so be þat þe vse & manere not afore tyme be seyn has, Neuerthelese aftur my symple affeccion 764 y must conclude with pe fourth compleccion, 768 Wyntur / with his lokkys grey / febille & old, 1 "Creme of Almond Mylk." H. Ord. p. 447. 2 See the recipe, p. 53 of this volume. 3 Compare "leche fryes made of frit and friture," H. Ord. p. 449; Servise on Fisshe Day, last line. The The furst Sotelte, as y said, 'Sanguineus' hight pe springynge tyme clepe 'ver.' 772 The second course / 'colericus' by callynge, Fulle of Fyghtynge / blasfemynge, & brallynge, Fallynge at veryaunce with felow & fere. 6 The thrid sotelte, y declare as y kan, 776 Autumpnus,' pat is pe .iijd age of mañ, With a flewische countenaunce. 780 The iiijth countenaunce 2, as y seid before, is wyntur with his lokkes hoore, pe last age of mañ fulle of grevaunce. These iiij. soteltees devised in towse,3 wher þey byn shewed in an howse, hithe dothe gret plesaunce 784 with oper sightes of gret Nowelte þañ hañ be shewed in Rialle feestes of solempnyte, The superscripcioun of pe sutiltees aboue Sanguineus. 788 specified, here folowethe Versus Ver These Devices represent the Ages of Man: Sanguineus, the 1st age, of pleasure. Colericus, the 2nd, of quarrelling. Autumpnus, the 3rd, of melancholy. Winter, the 4th, of aches and troubles. These Devices. Inscriptions for the Devices. Spring. Largus, amans, hillaris, ridens, rubei que Loving, Cantans, carnosus, satis audax, atque singing, 'Melancholy, full of phlegm: see the superscription 1. 792 below. 'Flew, complecyon, (fleume of compleccyon, K. flewe, P.) Flegma,' Catholicon in P. Parv. 3 2 Mistake for Sotelte. The first letter of this word is neither a clear t nor c, though more like t than c. It was first written Couse (as if for cou[r]se, succession, which makes good sense) or touse, and then a w was put over the u. If the word is towse, the only others I can find like it are tow, 'towe of hempe or flax,' Promptorium; heruper, to discheuell, towse, or disorder the haire.' Cot. benign. A Franklin's Feast. Brawn, bacon and pease, beef and boiled chickens, roast goose, capon, and custade. Second Course. Mortrewes, veal, rabbit, chicken, dowcettes, fritters, or leche, ¶ Estas Hirsutus, Fallax / irascens / prodigus, satis audax, Astutus, gracilis / Siccus/ crocei que coloris. Malencolicus, ¶ Autumpnus Hic sompnolentus / piger, in sputamine multus, Ebes hinc sensus / pinguis, facie color albus. ¶yemps Invidus et tristis / Cupidus / dextre que tenacis, Non expers fraudis, timidus, lutei que coloris. A fest for a franklen. 'A Frankleñ may make a feste Improberabille, 796 brawne with mustard is concordable, 800 beef or moton stewed seruysable, Rosted goose & pygge fulle profitable, 804 perfore stuffe of household is behoveable, for pe second course by resoñ. 808 Chykon or pigeon rosted tendurly, 812 pen followynge, frytowrs & a leche lovely; 1 See p. 53 above. |