Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    Also for bustard / betowre / & shovel ere,’ gamelyn ^ is in sesouw ; Wodcok /lapewynk / Me?’tenet / larke, & venysouw, Sparows / thrusches / alle Jjese .vij. with salt & synamome: 544 Quayles, sparowes, & snytes, whan Jjeire sesoura com,3 Thus to provoke are appetide J)e Sawce hathe is operaciou■/^. f trtjrnoi Ilf J^ow, good son, of kervynge of fysche y wot y must ]>e leere : To pesoh® or frumenty take J»e tayle of pe hevere,® ^ Shovelars feed most commonly upon the Sea-coast upon cockles and Shell-fish: being taken home, and dieted with new garbage and good meat, they are nothing inferior to fatted Gulls. Muffett, p, 109. a schevelard (the awas of naturalists). Wright’s Voc., p. 253. 2 See note 6 to line 539, above. s Is not this line superfiuous ? After 135 stanzcis of 4 lines each, we here come to one of 5 lines. I suspect 1. 544 is simply de trop. AV. W. Skeat. * For the fish in the Poem mentioned by Tarrell, and for refer- ences to him, see the list at the end of this JBo/ce of Nurture. ® Eecipes for “ Grene Pesen ” are in H. Ord. p. 426-7, p. 470 ; and Porre of Pesen, &c. p. 444. ® Topsell in his Fourfooted Beasts., ed. Rowland, 1658, p. 36, says of Beavers, “ There hath been taken of them whose tails have weighed four pound weight, and they are accounted a very delicate dish, for being dressed they eat like Barbies : they are used by the Lotharingians and Savoyans [says Bellonius] for meat allowed to be eaten on fish-dayes, although the body that heareth them be flesh and unclean for food. The manner of their dressing is, first roasting, and afterward seething in an open pot, that so the evill vapour may go away, and some in pottage made with Saffron; other with Ginger, and many with Brine; it is certain that the tail and forefeet taste very sweet, from whence came the Proverbe, That sweet is that fish, which is not fish at all. Gamelyn for tnstark &e.. Salt and Cinna- mon for wood- cock, llmishes, &c., and q^uails, &c. Bonn to carve Fish. With pea soup or fiirmity serve a BeavcFe