M.A., TRIN. HALL. CAMB.; MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE PHILOLOGICAL AND EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETIES; LOVER OF OLD BOOKS. (continued 4)

[From the Ashmolean MS. 61 (Bodleian Library), ab. 1500 A.D., fol. 20.]

ASCRIBED TO JOHN LIDGATE.*

The two versions of Stans Puer ad Mensam were printed on facing even/odd pages. They are here presented twice: first as separate texts with all accompanying notes, and then side by side. In the original book, the editor’s sidenotes were printed only on the right-hand pages; they have been duplicated here.

[MS. Harl. 2251, ? about 1460 A.D., fol. 153 or 148. The parts between brackets [ ], and various readings, are from Mr Halliwell’s print in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, v. 1, p. 156-8, of a 15th-century MS. Q. Γ. 8, fol. 77, r^o, in the Library of Jesus College, Cambridge.]

[Lambeth MS. 853, ab. 1430 A.D., page 150, back. Part written as prose.]

Thus eendith þe book of curteisie þat is clepid stans puer ad mensam.

Parallel texts: see note before first version. Text decorations have been omitted, and lines are numbered by 7.

¶ [My dere childe, first thiself enable With all thin herte to vertuous disciplyne Afor thi soverayne standing at the table, Dispose thi youth aftir my doctryne To all norture thi corage to enclyne. First when thu spekist be not rekles, 7 Kepe feete and fingeris and handes still in pese.] Mi dere sone, first þi silf able with al þin herte to vertuose discipline,— A-fore þi souereyn stondinge at þe table Dispose þou þee aftir my doctryne— To al nortur þi corage to encline. First while þou spekist, be not richelees; Kepe boþe fyngir and hond stille in pees;

Be symple of chiere, cast nat thyn ye aside, Agenst the post lete nat thy bak abyde; Gaase nat aboute, tournyng oueralle; Make nat thy myrrour also of the walle, Pyke nat thy nose, and in especialle Be right wele ware, and sette hieron thi thought, 14 By-fore thy souerayne cracche ne rubbe nought. Be symple in cheer; caste not þi looke a-side, gase not about, turnynge þi siȝt oueral. aȝen þe post lete not þi bak abide, neiþer make þi myrrour also of þe wal. Pike not pi nose; & moost in especial be weel waar, sette her-on þi þouȝt, to-fore þi souereyn cratche ne picke þee nouȝt.

¶ Who spekithe to the in any maner place, Rudely cast nat thyn ye adowne, But with a sadde chiere loke hym in the face; Walke demurely by strete in the towne, Advertise the withe wisdom and Reasoune. Withe dissolute laughters do thow non offence 21 To-fore thy souerayn, whiles he is in presence. ¶ Who-so speke to þee in ony maner place, lumpischli caste not þin heed a-doun, but with a sad cheer loke him in þe face. walke demurely bi streetis in þe toun, And take good hede bi wisdom & resoun þat bi no wantowne lauȝinge þou do noon offence To-fore þi souereyne while he is in presence.

¶ Pare clene thy nailes, thyn handes wasshe also To-fore mete, and whan thow dooest arise; Sitte in that place thow art assigned to; Prease nat to hye in no maner wise; And til thow se afore the thy service, Be nat to hasty on brede for to byte, 28 Of gredynesse lest men wolde the endwyte. Pare clene þi nailis; þin hondis waische also to-fore þi mete, [&] whanne þou doist arise. sitte þou in þat place þat þou art a-signed to; Prece not to hie in no maner wise; And whanne þou seest afore þee þi seruice, be not to hasti upon breed to bite lest men þerof Do þee edwite.

¶ Grennyng and mowes at the table eschowe; Cry nat to lowde; kepe honestly silence; To enboce thy Iowis withe mete is nat diewe; Withe ful mowthe speke nat, lest thow do offence; Drynk nat bretheles for hast ne necligence; Kepe clene thy lippes from fat of flesshe or fisshe; 35 Wype clene thi spone, leve it nat in thy disshe. Grennynge & mowynge at þi table eschewe; Crie not to lowde: honestli kepe silence. To enbrace þi iowis with breed, it is not dewe; with ful mouþ speke not lest þou do offence; Drinke not bridelid for haste ne necligence; Kepe clene þi lippis from fleisch & fische; Wipe faire þi spoon; leue it not in þi dische.

¶ Of brede I-byten no soppis that thow make; In ale nor wyne withe hande leve no fattenes; Withe mowthe enbrewed thy cuppe thow nat take; Enbrewe no napery for no rekelesnes; For to souppe [loude] is agenst gentiles; [N]euer at mete begynne thow nat stryf; 42 Thi tethe also thow pike nat withe no knyf. Of breed with þi teeþ no soppis þou make; Lowde for to soupe is aȝen gentilnes: With mouþ enbrowide þi cuppe þou not take, In ale ne in wiyn with hond leue no fatnes; Defoule not þe naprie bi no richelesnes. Be waar þat at þe mete þou bigynne no striif; Þi teeþ also at þe table picke with no knyf.

¶ Of honest myrthe late be thy daliaunce; Swere none othes, speke no ribawdrye; The best morsel, have in remembraunce, Hole to thyself alwey do nat applie; Part withe thy felaw, for that is curtesie: Laade nat thy trenchour withe many remyssailes; 49 And from blaknes alwey kepe thy nayles. Of honest mirþe euere be þi daliaunce; Swere noon ooþis; speke no ribaudie. Þe beste morsels,—haue þis in remembraunce,— Holli alwey þi silf to take do not applie. Parte with þi felawis, for þat is curteisie. Lete not þi trenchour be with many morsels; And fro blaknes kepe weel þi nailis.

¶ Of curtesye also agenst the lawe, Withe sowne dishonest for to do offence; Of old surfaytes abrayde nat thy felawe; Toward thy souerayne alwey thyn aduertence; Play withe no knyf, take heede to my sentence; At mete and soupper kepe the stille and soft; 56 Eke to and fro meve nat thy foote to oft. Of curtesie it is aȝen þe lawe, With dishoneste, sone, for to do difence; Of oolde forfetis vpbraide not þi felawe; Towarde þi souereyn do euere reuerence. Pleie with no knif, take hede to my sentence; At mete & at soper kepe þee stille & softe, And eek to & fro meeue not þi feeþ to ofte.

¶ Droppe nat thi brest withe sawce ne withe potage; Brynge no knyves vnskoured to the table; Fil nat thy spone, lest in the cariage It went beside, whiche were nat comendable; Be quyke and redy, meke and seruisable, Wele awaityng to fulfille anone 63 What that thy souerayne comav[n]dithe the to be done. Droppe not þi brest with seew & oþer potage, Bringe no foule knyues vnto þe table; Fille not þi spoon lest in þe cariage It scheede bi side, it were not commendable. Be quik & redi, meke & seruiable, Weel awaitinge to fulfille anoon What þat þi souereyn commaundiþ to be doon.

¶ And whereso euer that thow dyne or soupe, Of gentilesse take salt withe thy knyf; And be wele ware thow blow nat in the cuppe. Reuerence thy felawe, gynne withe hym no stryf; Be thy powere kepe pees al thy lyf. Interrupt nat, where so thow wende, 70 None other mans tale, til he have made an ende; And where-so-euere þou be to digne or to suppe, Of gentilnes take salt with þi knyf, And be weel waar þou blowe not in þe cuppe. Reuerence þi felawis; bigynne with hem no strijf; To þi power kepe pees al þi lijf. Intrippe no man where so þat þou wende, No man in his tale, til he haue maade an eende.

¶ Withe thy fyngres make thow nat thy tale; Be wele avised, namly in tendre age, To drynk by mesure bothe wyne and ale; Be nat copious also of langage; As tyme requyrithe, shewe out thy visage, To gladde ne to sory, but kepe atwene tweyne, 77 For losse or lucre or any case sodayne. ¶ With þi fyngris marke not þi tale; be weel avysid, & nameli in tendir age, To drinke mesurabli boþe wiyn & ale. Be not to copiose of langage; As tyme requiriþ schewe out þi visage, To glad, ne to sory, but kepe þee euene bitwene For los, or lucre, or ony case sodene.

¶ Be meke in mesure, nat hasti, but tretable; Ouer moche is nat worthe in no maner thyng; To children it longithe nat to be [vengeable,] Sone meeved and sone forgyvyng; And as it is remembrid bi writyng, Wrathe of children is sone ouergone, 84 Withe an apple the parties be made atone. Be soft in mesure, not hasti, but treteable; Ouer soft is nouȝt in no maner þing To children longiþ not to be vengeable, Soone meued and soone fiȝtinge; And as it is remembrid bi writynge, wraþþe of children is ouercome soone, With þe partis of an appil ben made at oon.

¶ In children werre now myrthe and now debate, In theyr quarel no grete violence; Now pley, now wepyng, sielde in one estate; To theyr playntes gyve no credence; A Rodde refourmythe al theyr insolence; In theyr corage no Rancour dothe abyde; 91 Who sparithe the yerd, al vertu set aside. In children werre is now mirþe & now debate, In her quarel is no violence, now pleie, now wepinge, & seelde in oon state; to her pleyntis ȝeue no credence; A rodde reformeþ al her necligence; in her corage no rancour dooþ abide, who þat spariþ þe rodde all uertues settiþ a-side.

LENVOYE.

¶ Go, litel bille, bareyn of eloquence, Pray yonge children that the shal see or Reede, Thoughe thow be compendious of sentence, Of thi clauses for to taken heede, Whiche to al vertu shal theyr yowthe leede. Of the writyng, thoughe ther be no date, If ought be mysse,—worde, sillable, or dede,— 99 Put al the defaute vpon Iohne Lydegate. A! litil balade, voide of eloquence, I praie ȝou ȝonge children þat þis schal se & rede, Þouȝ ȝe be copious of sentence, Ȝit to þese clausis for to take hede Which al into vertues schal ȝoure ȝouþe lede. In þis writynge, þouȝ þer be no date, Yf ouȝt be mys in word, sillable, or dede, I submitte me to correccioun withoute ony debate.

The notes to the Book of Curtasye were originally printed here (pages 283-285). They have been moved to accompany that book, between pages 206 and 207.

Contents

Full Table of Contents Preface The Boke of Nurture Shorter Selections

General Index 286

POSTSCRIPT:

To Serve a Lord and A Feste for a Bride 349, 358

Suffer, and hold your tongue 361

The Houshold Stuff occupied at the Lord Mayor’s Feast, A.D. 1505 362

The Ordre of goyng or sittyng 365

Latin Graces 366

Symon’s Lesson of Wysedome for all maner Chyldryn 381

The Birched School-Boy of about 1500 A.D. 385

The Song of the School-Boy at Christmas 387

The Boar’s Head 388

Collected Sidenotes

INDEX.

All links in this section are external. Where possible, links lead directly to the word referenced. At a minimum, prose selections are broken into blocks of a half-page or less, and verse lines go by multiples of 4. Line numbers in prose are not used. Footnote numbers are left as printed, so the number used in the e-text will generally be different. References in the form “line B” are to the “ABC“ selections, Lerne or be Lewde and Aristotle, pages 258-261.

In the Index, words in I and J are treated together, while U and V are separately listed. Most words in yogh ȝ are alphabetized as Y.

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

INDEX.

To save the repetition of p. and l. for page and line, I have adopted Mr Morris’s plan, in his Chaucer Glossary, of putting a / between the numbers of the page and line, so that 5 / 115 stands for page 5, line 115. Where no line is named, then p. for page is prefixed. The French references are to Cotgrave, except where otherwise specified. The Index, though long, does not pretend to completeness. The explanations of words given in the notes to the text are not repeated here.

Abbots of Westminster & Tintern not to sit together, 76/1141-4.

Abbot with a mitre, 70/1013, 72/1051;

without one, l. 1015; 72/1059.

A B C of Aristotle, p. 260, p. 261.

A bofe, 216/9, above.

Abrayde, 277/52, upbraid.

Abremon, a fish, p. 113.

A-brode, 62/906, spread open.

Abstinence, 8/108; 153/6.

Abylle, 267/44, fit, convenient, beseeming; L. habilis, suitable, fit.

Accounts, yearly, taken to the Auditor, 196/590.

Achatis, 201/555, purchases. Fr. achet, a bargaine, or purchase. Cotgrave.

Addes, 153/11, adze.

Aduertence, p. 277, attention, respect, reverence.

Affeccion, 52/763, disposition.

After-dinner nap, 65/947-54, to be taken standing against a cupboard, p. 128.

Ages of man, the four, p. 53, p. 104.

Ahuna, a monster of the sea, p. 114.

Alay, 16/232, temper.

Alaye, p. 151, carve.

Aldermen, the old, rank above the young, 77/1157.

Ale; is to be 5 days old, 12/178; p. 92; 154/19. Fr. Gutale ou Guttale. Ale, good Ale. Cot.

Ale or wine, the sauce for capons, 26/411.

Algate, 26/400, always.

Aliene, 75/1109, foreigners.

Alle, p. 216, No. ix. hall.

Allhallows Day, fires in hall begin on, 189/393.

Allhallowsday, 205/837.

Alloft, 69/996, above, over the vessel of herbs.

Almandes, 5/74, almonds.

Almond, 44/625, a whelk’s operculum.

Almonds, good against sour food, 8/102;

eat it with raw fruit, 153/1.

Almond, iardyne, cream of, 52/744;

cream and milk of, 35/520;

cream of, 49/705; 56/825; 157/8; p. 167, last line.

Almoner, his duties, 201/729;

to remove a towel, 204/814.

Alms to be given to the poor, p. 216, No. viii.

Alms-dish, 23/346; 200/687; 201/730;

loaf for, 202/731;

it has the leavings in the lord’s cup, 203/787, and a piece of everything he is served with, 204/799. See John Fitz Roberts’s account for altering and ornamenting an almsdish for Hen. VI., that belonged to the Duk d’Excestre, in Rymer X. 388, col. 1.

Aloes epatick, 135/12; Fr. hepatique, Liuer-helping; comforting a whole, or curing a diseased, liuer. Cot.

Als, 197/599, also.

Altar, minister at the high, with both hands, 182/167.

Alycaunt, p. 86, p. 89, a wine.

Amber, 141/3; adj. 49/699.

Amberdegrece, 132/9, a scent.

Angel and 3 Shepherds, device of, 49/702.

Anger, avoid, 236/764.

Anhonest, 180/96, unmannerly, improper; 180/124, unpolite.

Annaunciande, 201/705, announcing, who announces guests?

Answer sensibly, 252/71.

Answer, servants mustn’t, 215/13.

Ape tied with a clog, 180/108.

Apparel, rules for, 214/159, &c.

Apple fritter, 33/502, &c.

Apple, a raw, cures indigestion, 153/5;

and the fumes of drink, 8/105.

Apples, 52/757; 55/813; 152/19.

“The dyvell choke hym, he hath eaten all the appels alone.” Palsgrave, p. 484, col. 2.

Apples and pears roasted, 164/17, &c.

Citation could not be identified. Roast apples and pears are mentioned together at 6/80 and 152/26.

Apprentise of lawe, rank of, 73/1070.

Apprentices, thievish, hanging good for, p. 125.

Apys mow, 179/59; apes grimace.

Aquarius, p. 199, the Ewerer or Water-bearer.

Aquetons, 197/597, acquittance.

Ar, 201/710, before.

Archbishop, 72/1047.

Archbishop ranks with a prince, 70/1010;

is to dine alone, 171/4.

Archdeacon, rank of, 70/1016; 72/1060.

Areche, 19/290, retch?

Areise, 43/609, tear off?

Arere, 26/407, cut.

Areyse, 27/418, 425; 28/429, &c.; tear or cut off.

Aristotle’s A B C, p. 260, p. 261.

Arm, don’t claw it, 193/329.

Armes, servauntes of, 156/28, ? in livery, or men-at-arms.

Artificers, rich; rank of, 71/1037.

Asche, 45/643, ask.

Ashore, 5/71, slantwise, aslope; 20/299, astraddle.

Asise, 60/879, way, manner.

Aslout, 39/560; aslant.

Aspidochelon, a great whale-fisshe, p. 114.

Assaying bread, by the panter, 200/691;

water, 201/702;

meat, by the sewer, 202/764.

See Credence, and Tasting.

Asseles, 196/566, sets the lord’s seal to.

Astate, 185/276; rank.

At, 256/182, with; 184/242, that.

Aþer, 200/689, either, each.

Attend at school, 209/21.

Attirling, 287/41, shrew; A.S. Attor, Ater, poison.

Atwytynge, 18/274, twitting, blaming others.

Audibly, speak, 235/687.

Auditor, the lord’s, all officers to account to, once a year, 196/587-94.

Aunterose, p. 260, l. A, venturesome.

Aurata (a fish), p. 114.

Autumn, the device of, 53/766; p. 54.

Ave, 48/692.

Ave-Maria, 181/147.

Aveyner, his duties, p. 197.

Avise, 35/525, opinion, learning.

Awoydes, 204/821, removes, puts off.

Ayselle, 42/596, a kind of vinegar.

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Baase (the fish), 58/842.

See Base.

Babulle, 1/12.

Au fol la marotte. Prov.

We say also, Giue the foole his bable; or what’s a foole without a bable? Cotgrave, under fol.

Back; turn it on no one, 253/90;

not on him you give a cup to, 180/121.

Backbite no man, 272/99.

Bacon and peas, 54/797.

Bailiffs of a city, rank of, 71/1033.

Bailiffs of farms, &c., to be talked to pleasantly, p. 218, No. xvi.

Baked herrings with sugar, 166/7.

Bakemete, 54/802, meat-pie.

Bake metes, 30/476-7, game pies, &c.;

? sweet pies, 54/809;

how to carve, 159/19;

how assayed, 203/771-6.

Baker, gets money from the treasurer, 196/582;

his duties, 198/623-28.

Bakes, 179/60, as bokes, bulges, stuffs.

Balena, a whale or mermaid, pp. 115, 123, 119, last line.

Banker, 63/924, cloth to cover a bench.

Barbe, p. 151, cut up.

Barme, 61/891, bosom.

Barnard’s blowe, p. 126, a secret blow by a highwayman.

Baron, 70/1013, 72/1051;

of the Exchequer, 70/1014; 72/1061.

Baron of the Exchequer, appeal lies to, from an Auditor, 196/594.

Base, the fish, 51/735; 166/13; 167/6.

Bason, 63/926, washing basin.

Basshe, 45/645, be abashed, ashamed.

Bastard, 9/119; 89/7; 153/20; a sweet wine.

Bate, 182/188, quarrelling.

Bath, how to make one, p. 66-7;

a medicated one, p. 67-9.

Bayle, 196/576, bailiff.

Bearer of meat to stand or kneel as the sewer does, 203/777.

Beastlynes, 232/460;

nasty practise, t.i., gnawing bones.

Beaver, considered as a fish, 37/547.

“The beuer, whose hinder feet and taile onlie are supposed to be fish. Certes the taile of this beast is like vnto a thin whetstone, as the bodie vnto a monsterous rat.... It is also reported that their said tailes are a delicate fish.” Harrison, Desc. Brit., i. 225, col. 2.

See Giraldus Cambrensis, Works, vol. v. p. 59, ed. 1867.

Beckoning, don’t use it, 184/249.

Bed, how to undress a lord for, p. 65-6.

Bed and Bedroom, how to air and prepare, 63/919-30.

Bed, offer your bed-fellow his choice of place in, 185/293.

Bed, prayer on going to, 240/987-8.

Bedchamber, how to prepare your master’s, pp. 63, 65.

Bedchamber door, lights stuck on, 193/509.

Bedes, for church service, 63/918.

Bedrooms, don’t sleep in ratty ones, or those deprived of sun, p. 132.

Beds of straw, &c., to be 9 ft. long and 7 ft. broad, 191/436-7.

Beef, 34/517; 48/688; p. 105;

powdered, p. 102, note to l. 694;

stewed, 54/798;

how to carve, 25/393.

“Touchyng the befe: I do estymate him of nature melancolyke, and engendre and produce grosse blode well norisshyng folkes robustes and of stronge complexion, whiche occupy them in great busynesse and payne.”—Du Guez’s Introductorie, p. 1071.

Behight, 41/605, direct.

Behoveable, 54/804, necessary.

Belch not, 178/113.

Believe fair words, don’t, 183/205.

Bengwine, p. 134;

Fr. Benjoin, the aromaticall gumme called Benjamin or Benzoin. Cot.

Benym, 24/368, deprive.

Be-sene, 21/318, become, suit.

Bete, 63/930, feed, nourish.

Bete, 67/990, remedy, cure.

Betowre, 37/541, the bittern, q.v.; 49/696;

how to carve, 27/421; p. 162.

Better, give place to your, 253/89.

Bilgres, 69/994;

bugloss? p. 110.

Birds, how to carve, pp. 25-8, 30-1, 161-62.

Birth to be looked to first, 74/1105.

Bishop, rank of, 70/1012.

Bisketes, 231/389, biscuits.

Bite not thy bread, 178/49.

Bithe, 47/678, are.

Biting your lips is bad, 178/89.

Bittern, to unjoint or carve, p. 162; 165/1.

See Betowre.

Blaknes, 278, 277/49, black dirt.

Blamanger and Blanchmanger, p. 101, bottom.

See Blanger mangere and Blaunche manger.

Blandrelles, 157/10, white apples.

See Blaundrelles.

Blanger mangere, 49/693.

Blanked, 169/23.

See Blanket.

Blanket, 64/935.

Fr. blanchet. A blanket for a bed; also, white woollen cloth.

Cot. Is to be kept in the privy.

Blasting, 20/304;

cp. Fr. Petarrade: f. Gunshot of farting. Cotgrave.

Blaunche manger, 157/3.

Blaunche powder, 6/80, note; p. 85, p. 10, note 3; 152/26.

Blaunderelle, 50/714;

Blawnderelles, 6/79; p. 85, white apples.

Blaynshe powder, p. 10, note 3.

Blow and puff not, 20/303.

Blow not like a broken-winded horse, 210/53.

Blow, don’t, on your food to cool it, 180/111.

Blood Royal, Babees of, The Babees Book, addressed to, 250/15.

Blood Royal ranks above property, 74/1094; 171/16.

Blush or change colour, don’t, 187/337.

Blysse, 266/12, 23, make the sign of the cross on or over.

Blythe, 178/47, joy? = (in) faith.

Boar pasty, 31/489.

Boar, 48/686.

Boards of the privy to be covered with green cloth, 63/932.

Body to be kept upright, 235/676.

Bof, 202/750,

? not “boeuf, an ox, a beefe,” Cot.; but a-bof (dishes), above, up.

Boke, the, 185/261.

Bold, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 260, l. B.

Bolde, 192/454, finely?

Bole Armoniake, p. 134.

Fr. Armoniac, a gumme spring from the Cyrenian Ferula or Fennell-giant.

Bolkynge, 19/298, belching.

A.S. bealcian, to belch; to bolke belche, roucter. Palsgrave.

Bombace, p. 139, cotton; cp. bombast.

Boner, 183/191.

Fr. bonaire, gentle, courteous, affable. Cot.

Bones not to be thrown on the floor, 269/79;

to be put into voyders, 230/358.

Bonet, 169/29, nightcap.

Book, stick to it well, 227/168.

Boorde, p. 260, l. B, joke, play.

“To bourde or iape with one in sporte, truffler, border, iouncher.” Palsgrave.

Boorde, bourde, p. 258, p. 260, l. B;

Fr. bourder, to toy, trifle, dally; bourd or ieast with. Cot.

Borbotha, a slippery fish, p. 115.

Borclothe, 30/468, table-cloth.

Bordclothe, 4/62, table-cloth.

“The table clothes and towelles shoulde be chaunged twyes every weeke at the leste; more if neede require.” H. Ord. p. 85.

Borde, 178/31, table.

Borde, Andrew, extracts from, pp. 89, 91, &c.;

on Sleep, Rising, and Dress, p. 128-32.

Border, p. 151, carve.

Botery, 12/176-7.

Botre, 193/489, buttery.

Bouȝt, 13/188, 189n, 191, fold; 268/27, 29; 269/17;

‘Mal feru, A malander in the bought of a horse’s knee.’ Cot.

Bow when you answer, 253/83.

Boxyng, p. 124, smacking the face.

Boys to walk two and two from school, not hooping and hallooing, 228/238-264.

Boystous, 257/195, rude;

Boystows, rudis. Prompt.

Boystousnesse, 256/182;

Ruditas. Prompt.

Brade, 199/666, broad.

Bragot, 55/817; p. 107.

Brandrels, 152/24, blaundrels, white apples.

Brawn of boar, 48/686; 54/796.

this was the first dish at dinner in Harrison’s time, 1577-87; see his Description of Britain, bk. iii, ch. 1 (N. Sh. Soc.). Reference added by editor.

Brawn of a capon, 163/27.

Brawn, how to carve, 24/378; pp. 94, 156.

Brayd, at a, 15/226, sharply, quickly.

Brayde, 13/188, instant, same time.

Brayde, 11/146, start, slip.

Brayde, at a, 200/678, quickly.

Bread to be cut, not broken, 255/141; 267/24;

at dinner to be cut in two, 178/35.

Bread, how to chop, p. 4;

how assayed, 200/691-2.

Bread and cheese, 55/815.

Break your bread, 178/51.

Break not wind, 20/304.

Bream, 51/736; 58/841;

pp. 108, 115.

Bream, sea-, 40/578; 49/698; 52/746; 58/848.

Breath, as it may smell, keep your mouth shut, 211/69.

Breche (? drawers), clean, 60/871.

Brede, 13/192, breadth.

Breke, 21/315; p. 151, carve venison.

Breke a cony, 29/448.

Bresewort, 68/993.

“In the curious treatise of the virtues of herbs, Royal MS. 18 A. vi., fol. 72 b, is mentioned ‘bryse-wort, or bon-wort, or daysye, consolida minor, good to breke bocches.’” Way, Promptorium, p. 52, note ¹.

Brest, 19/288, ? for fist.

Bret, Brett, a fish, 41/583; 51/735; 59/852.

Fr. Limaude, f. A Burt or Bret-fish. Cot.

Breue, 190/413, book, score-up.

Breuet, 194/536, briefed (with green wax).

Breve, 195/553, set down in writing, keep accounts of.

Brewe, 36/540, a bird; 49/706; 157/8;

how to carve, 27/422;

to untache or carve, p. 160.

Bridelid, 278/33, ? a wrong reading; or, with food in one’s mouth;

Fr. boire sa bride, A horse to draw vp his bit into his mouth with his tongue. Cot.

Broach a pipe of wine, how to, 5/69, p. 152, 121/69.

Broche?, 161/6.

Broiled herrings, 52/748.

Broke-lempk, 69/994; p. 68, note.

Broken, 214/158, with hernia?, E. Engl. bursten.

Broken meat or food for the poor, 202/739.

Brothellis, 267/38, low rude people.

Fr. bordeau, a brothell bordelier, a wencher, haunter of baudie-houses. Cotgrave.

Adulterous friars are called brothels in Piers Plowman’s Crede, l. 1540, v. 2, p. 496, ed. Wright.

See Arth. and Merlin, &c., in Halliwell;—a blackguard, Towneley Mysteries, p. 142, “stynt, brodels, youre dyn.”

Browers, 199/663; brower must be a napkin or doyley.

“Can it be a bib put on when taking broo or broth in, against the spilling of what is supped up? (Or rather, wiping the fingers from the broo, sauce, or gravy, that men dipped their bits of meat into.) Halliwell curiously explains broo, top of anything. ‘Tak a knyf & shere it smal, the rute and alle, & sethe it in water; take the broo of that, and late it go thorow a clowte’—evidently the juice. Ital. broda, broth, swill for swine, dirt or mire; brodare, to cast broth upon.”—H. Wedgwood.

Browes, p. 160, last line; p. 173.

A.S. briw, es.; m. Brewis, the small pieces of meat in broth; pottage, frumenty, &c., briwan, to brew. Somner.

Brows, how to use the, 210/29; 213/132.

Browynge, 179/75, broth, grease.

See Browes.

Brush your master well, 62/913;

all robes lightly, 64/940-3;

your cap, 228/78.

Brushed (well), breeches, 60/873.

Brydelynge, 19/288, ? the passage seems corrupt.

Brytte, a fish, 166/12.

Buche, 31/492, in squares.

Sloane MS. 1315, reads “Custarde, enche square checke hit with your knyfe.”

Buffe, p. 133, leather made of buck’s skin.

Bulch not, 212/113.

Bulk, 267/47.

A.S. bealcian, to belch. “Bolkyn, ructo, eructo, orexo.” Prompt.

Bulke, 29/452, thorax, breast; 159/16.

Bulleyn, Wilyam; on Boxyng and Neckeweede, p. 124-7.

Bultelle clothe, 12/164.

Bun, 14/211; 15/218.

Bushel of flour to make 20 loaves, 198/625-6.

Business, attend to your own, 268/56.

Bustard, 28/433; 37/541; p. 97; 49/695; p. 102; 157/4.

Butler and Panter’s duties, 152/1.

Butler, his duties, 196/423-30;

is the panter’s mate, /425.

Butt or fresh-water flounder, p. 115.

Butter, sweet, of Claynos or hakeney, 39/559.

Butter, one of the fruits to be eaten before dinner, 46/667-8.

Butter and fruits to be eaten before dinner, 152/22.

Butter, wholesome first and last, 7/89; 152/31.

Butter, 7/89-92; p. 85; 152/20, 22.

Buttiler, p. 3, l. 40-1.

‘Butler, the officer in charge of the buttery or collection of casks; as Pantler, the officer in charge of the pantry.’ Wedgwood.

Buying, swear & lie not in, 270/76.

Bydene, 4/62, properly.

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Cabages, 35/521; p. 97; 159/29.

Calf, boiled, on Easter-day, p. 160.

Calves-foot jelly, 34/515.

Calves-skin garments to be worn in summer, p. 139.

Camamelle, 68/992, chamomile.

Camelyne sauce, p. 36, note ⁶.

Camphire, 135/13.

Campolet wine, 153/20, p. 174.

Cancer, the creuyce or cray-fish, p. 115.

Candelarius, 204/822-3, the chandler.

Candle, one to each mess at dinner, 205/837.

Candlemas-eve, squires’ allowances stop on, 189/394; 205/837.

“Aujourd’huy Febvrier demain Chandelier. Prov. (For Candlemas day is euer the second of Februarie.)” Cot.

Candles, 34/510.

Canel, 5/66; p. 84, a spout.

Canelle, 11/142; 10/135; 153/24, 31; a spice.

Canelle-boon, 29/449; 159/14.

Fr. Clavicules, f. The kannell bones, channell bones, necke-bones, craw-bones, extending (on each side ore) from the bottom of the throat vnto the top of the shoulder. Cot.

The merry-thought of a bird. The haunch-bones below correspond to the clavicles or kannell bones above.

Canne, 266/4;

cunne, 265/3, know.

Cannelles, 152/15, channels, spouts.

Canterbury, Bp. of, 73/1077.

See Archbishop.

Canterbury, the prior of, 77/1145.

Cap, take it off before a lord, 262/4;

before your better, 274/137;

when speaking to any man, 226/80;

be free of, 229/274, salute every one.

Capitaius, a fish, p. 116.

Capon, 48/689; 54/801; p. 106.

“Of all meates the best and most utille to the body of man is of capons, chyckyns, faisantes, partriches, yonge partriches, plouuiers, pigeons, quailles, snites (becasses§), wod-cockes, turtell doves, knyghtes (cheualiers†), stares, sparows, or passeriaux, finches, uerdieres,* frions, gold finches, linotes, thrushe, felde fare, and all kyndes of small byrdes (whereof the names ben without nombre) ben metes norisshyng and of litell degestion, and that engendre good blode.” Du Guez’s Introductorie, p. 1071-2.

Capon, how to carve, 26/409;

to sauce or carve, p. 161.

Capon, boiled, 54/799;

verjuice its sauce, 36/534.

“Capons boyled, and chekyns, ben lykewyse of good nourysshyng, and doth engender good blode, but whan they ben rosted, they ben somewhat more colloryke, and all maner of meates rosted, the

Capon pie, 31/481.

Capon, roast, how to carve, 161/21.

Cappe, 65/964, night-cap.

Cappe-de-huse, 62/909, ? cape for the house, Fr. cappe, a short cloake, or loose and sleeuelesse garment, which hath, instead of a Cape, a Capuche behind it. Cot.

Caprik, 9/120; p. 91, No. 13, a sweet wine.

Caraway, Careawey, 6/79, caraway-seeds, (from καρον, cumin; Lat. careum; Ar. karawiya; Mahn,) 50/713; 152/25; 157/11; 231/389.

Cardinal, rank of a, 70/1008; 72/1045.

Carding, eschew, 234/599.

Cariage, p. 280, 279, l. 59, act of carrying.

Carowayes, 231/389, caraway-seed cakes.

Carp, 40/578; 51/735; 58/842; p. 116.1

Carpentes, 169/9, 18, carpets under foot?

See carpettes for cupbordes, l. 19.

Carpets, about a bed, windows, &c, 63/927-8.

Carry your body up, 213/133.

Carver, his duties, p. 24-32;

assays the wine?, and carves the lord’s meat, 203/789-95.

See Keruynge.

Carving of fish, p. 166-7;

of flesh, p. 157.

Carving-knives, panter to lay two, 200/673.

Cast, 197/607, armful or pitchfork-full.

Cast of bread, 198/631, ? armful, lot taken up at one heave.

Cast up thy bed, 226/61.

Castles, the Receiver sees to repairs of, 197/601.

Castyng, 187/336, ?

Cat, don’t stroke it at meals, 180/107.

Cate, 274/143, ? cat (hond, hound).

Cathedral prior sits above others, 77/1150.

Cato quoted, 232/491.

Cats to be turned out of bedrooms, 66/969; p. 108, p. 109; 169/34.

Caucius, a fish, p. 116.

Cawdrons, the sauce for swans, p. 159, last line.

See Chawdon.

Cellar, yeomen of the, 21/311.

Celle, 12/176, cell.

Cena Domini, fires in hall stop on, 189/398;

Shere Thursday or Maundy Thursday, day before Good Friday.

Cetus, the greatest whale, p. 116.

Ceuy, 55/822, chive-sauce.

Chafer, 192/466, a heater.

Chaffire, 45/639. “Chafowre to make whote a thynge, as watur. Calefactorium.” Prompt.

Chalcedony to be worn in a ring, p. 141.

Chambur, bason for, 66/971.

Chamberlain, the duties of one, p. 59-69, p. 168-9.

Chancellor, his duties, 195/563.

Chandelew, 199/642, chandlery, stock of candles.

Chandler, his bread, 198/628;

his duties, p. 204-11.

Change (countenance or temper?) don’t, 270/92.

Char, 180/96, turn, trick.

Chardequynce, 152/21, chare de quynces, 5/75;

conserve of quinces, or quince marmalade.

Charequynses, 10łb. the boke, vs̃—2ł., 10s. A.D. 1468, H. Ord. p. 103.

Marmalet of Quinces. R. Holme, Bk. III., p. 80, col. 1.

Charger, 44/633;

Chargere, 26/405, a kind of dish.

Charity, the fruits of, 233, cap. x.

Charlet, 159/28; p. 173.

Chat after meals, p. 142.

Chatter, don’t, 253/94; 257/186.

Chafing-dysshe, 162/2, heating dish.

Chaundeler, 299/492, chandler, officer in charge of the candles.

Chawdon (chawdron, p. 161), the sauce for swan, 36/535; p. 97.

Chawdwyn, the sauce for swans, 48/688.

Cheeks, don’t puff ’em out, 211/65;

don’t stuff yours out like an ape’s, 179/57.

Cheese, hard, 6/78; 7/85; p. 84, p. 85; 7/84-8; 8/102; 152/24.

Cheese, 55/815; 152/19.

Cheese, the best cement for broken pots, p. 85. Ruin cheese, p. 7, note ³; 85/3.

Cheese, have a clean trencher for, 256/183.

Cheese, fruit, and biscuits, for dessert, 231/388.

Cheese, only take a little, 269/76.

Fourmage est bon quand il y en a peu: Prov. The lesse cheese the better; or, cheese is good when a miserable hand giues it. Cot.

Chekker, 196/594, the Exchequer.

Chekkid, 25/389; 31/492, cut into chequers or squares.

Chekmate, 8/96.

Cherlis, 267/34, 48, poor, rude, and rough people.

Cherries, 6/77; 46/668; 152/23.

Chet, 199/501, coarse bread; chet loaf to the almsdish, 200/687.

Cheven (Cheuene, 166/13), chub, 51/736, note ³; 58/842.

Fr. Vilain, the Cheuin or Pollard fish (called so because it feedes vpon nothing but filth). Cot.

See Chub.

Cheve, 24/369, end.

Chewettes, 161/4; p. 171; 173/3.

The reference to “p. 171” could not be identified. Chewets are mentioned on 165/3 and 173/24 (not 3).

Chicken, boiled, 54/799;

roast, 54/808;

chicken pie, 31/481.

Chickens, how to carve, 25/397.

Chide not, 253/102.

“I lyken the to a sowe, for thou arte ever chyding at mete.” Palsgrave, p. 611, col. 2.

Chief Justices, rank of, 70/1014; 72/1052.

Childe, or young page, the King’s, 75/1124.

Children soon get angry, 279, 280/81; 281, 282/85;

give ’em an apple then, 280/84;

and a rod when they’re insolent, 281, 282/89.

Children, to wait on their parents at dinner before eating their own, 229/297; 231/423;

the duty of, 241/5.

Chin, hold it up when you speak, 262/14;

keep it clean at dinner, 272/107.

Chine, 25/393.

Fr. Eschinon: m. The Chyne, or vpper part of the backe betweene the shoulders. Eschine: f. The Chyne, backe bone, ridge of the backe. 1611, Cotgrave.

Chip, p. 84; 152/4.

“I chyppe breed. Je chappelle du payn ... je descrouste du pain ... and je payre du pain. Chyppe the breed at ones, for our gestes be come.” Palsgrave, p. 484, col. 1.

See “choppe” and “chyppere.”

Choke, don’t, by drinking with your mouth full, 180/98.

Choppe (loaves), 4/51.

Chub, p. 51, note ³.

See Cheuen.

Church, how to behave in, 233/332 (this is the part that would follow at the end of the Booke of Demeanor, p. 296).

Church, behave well at; go to, 266/17.

Chyme of a pipe, 152/18, rim.

Chymné, 192/461, fire-place or brasier.

Chyne, 5/70, rim of a cask.

Chyne, 25/393; 159/15, 16, back, loin.

See Chine.

Chyne, p. 151, carve.

Chynchynge, 153/11, pinching.

Metaphorically “chynchyn or sparyn mekylle, perparco.” Prompt.

Chyppere, 152/4, a knife to chip bread with.

Cinnamon and salt as sauce for venison, &c., 37/542-3.

Cinnamon, eaten with lamprey-pie, 44/636;

with fish, 58/842, 847; 168/11.

Cinnamon, 153/30.

Ciryppe, 56/826, syrop.

Civeye (chive sauce), hares and conies in, p. 146; 55/822.

Clared wyne, 153/19.

Clarey, 9/120; p. 91, No. 14;

Clarrey, 153/21.

Sp. Clarea: f. Clary drinke of hony and wine. Some say Muscadell, others call it Nectar or kingly drinke. 1591, Percivale, ed. Minsheu, 1623.

Clarke of the crowne and th’eschekere, 70/1019.

Claryfinynge, 9/124.

Claw, don’t, 253/81; 262/18; 274/139.

Claw not your head, &c., 18/279.

“I clawe, as a man or beest dothe a thyng softely with his nayles. Je grattigne ... Clawe my backe, and I wyll clawe thy toe.” Palsgrave.

Claynos buttur, 39/559.

Cleanse your spoon, 179/74.

Clene, 262/28, fitting, courteous.

Clerk of the Kitchen, 195/549;

his duties, 195/553-62;

gets money from the Treasurer, 196/579.

Clof, 192/462, ?

Cloke, 62/909, cloak.

Cloos-howse, 80/1202, lock-up place for food.

Cloth, how to lay the, 13/187, &c., 154/23;

how to take it off the table, 231/399.

Cloth, keep it clean, 269/61, 81; 272/123; 277/39; 278/40;

don’t wipe your knife on it, 272/122;

or your nose, 263/53.

Clothes, don’t wipe your nose on, 210/48.

See Apparel.

“Graue clothes make dunces often seeme great clarkes.” Cot., u. fol.

Clothing of officers, given out by the clerk of the kitchen, 195/561;

of lord and lady, by the chancellor, 195/563.

Cloven-footed fowls, skin of, is unwholesome, 165/18.

Clowche, 33/503, belly?

Not “clowchyn or clowe (clewe), glomus, globus.” Prompt.

Clutch at the best bit, don’t, 263/29.

Coat, long, 60/872.

Cock and hen, p. 105.

Cock, shooting at; girls not to go to, 289/81.

Cockes, 24/375, cooks.

Cod, 58/845; 168/12.

Cod, how to carve, 40/576;

names of, p. 99.

Codling, a fish, p. 59, note; 167/7.

Codware not to be clawed, 19/286;

not to be exposed, 20/305.

Coffyn, cofyn, 30/478; 31/481; 96/2, 22, &c., crust of a pie.

Cold, head and feet to be kept from, p. 138.

Cold fritter is not to be eaten, 33/502.

Colericus, 53/772; p. 54; p. 104.

Colice, 56/824, broth.

Collector, the Pope’s, 70/1023; 72/1063.

Cologne, the kings of, 50/712.

Colombyne gynger, 10/131;

Columbyne gyngre, 52/758;

a kind of ginger. ? what.

Coloure de rose, 9/114.

See note there; it was a wine, p. 86, extract from the Four Elements.

Colvering, 126/3, ?

Comade, 96/4; sauce of whipped eggs and milk.

Comb for the hair, 61/885.

Comb your head often, p. 130;

nothing recreateth the memorie more, p. 128.

Comb your head, 266/14;

do it 40 times every morning, p. 139.

Comb your lord’s head, 65/963; 169/2, 28.

Comedies, 34/510, quaint dishes?

Comenynge, 81/1220, communication, teaching.

Comfit, 50/714; p. 104.

Commende, 254/120.

Fr. ?Commander, to recommend, or to commit ouer vnto the care of another.

À Dieu vous command. God be with you. Cot.

Commensed, 77/1154, taken a degree.

Commyn, 46/671, communicate, talk.

Companions, pray for your, 182/161.

Compleccion, 52/764, device.

Compleccyon, 165/11, disposition.

Piers of Fullham, l. 197-8.

Compostes, 5/75, note; 6/79; 152/21; 154/19.

See Recipe 100, Forme of Cury, p. 49.

Conche or muscle fish, p. 116.

Concoction, 136/12, digestion.

Concordable, 54/796, suitable.

Condel, smale, 205/826, tapers.

Confiteor, the, to be learnt, 181/154.

Confites, 5/75; p. 85, note to l. 82, comfits.

Confyte, 51/731, a comfit.

Congaudence, 79/1190, congratulation, satisfaction.

Conger, 38/555; 41/583; 51/733; p. 117.

Richard Sheale, the minstrel and ballad-writer, says,

Knight’s Life of Caxton, p. 48.

Conger, salt, 57/833.

Congettynge, 80/1202, conspiracy, tricks.

Connynge, 81/1220-2, learning, knowledge.

Contrarotulator, p. 195, the controller.

Controller, his work, 195/541, 550;

sits on the dais in hall, 177/20.

“I feel by William Peacock that my nephew is not yet verily acquainted in the king’s house, nor with the officers of the king’s house he is not taken as none of that house; for the cooks be not charged to serve him, nor the sewer to give him no dish, for the sewer will not take no men no dishes till they be commanded by the controller.” Clement Paston, P. Letters, ed. 1841, v. 1, p. 144 (XV. vol. iv. p. 53, orig.).

Cold of speech, be, 272/98.

Cony, 34/517; 49/694; 54/807; p. 107.

“And conÿs, hares, rabettes (laperaus), buckes, does, hartes, hyndes, robuckes, or lepers (cheureus ou saillanz), holde also all of melancoly.” Du Guez.

Cony, how to carve, 29/447; 159/12;

to unlace or cut up, p. 162.

Cony, with mustard and sugar, 36/538.

Conyd, 274/149, learnt.

Coochele, sea-snails, p. 116.

Cook must obey a marshal, 79/1182.

Cooks are always finding out new dishes, and nearly killing people, 33/505.

Coost, 49/705, rank, succession?

Fr. coste à coste, in euen ranke, side by side. Cotgrave.

Cope, 200/689, covering, towel ?

Copious of talk, don’t be, 279, 280/74.

Coral, 141/3.

Coretz, a fish, p. 119.

Cornys, p. 218, No. xvi. different kinds of grain.

Cote, 267/48, cot, cottage.

Cottell, 168/14, cuttle-fish.

Also p. 174 (note on “Cottell”).

Cotyn, cotton, to be kept in the privy, 64/935.

Couche, 154/25.

Couertoure, 202/753, dish-cover;

203/791, cover, or lid of a wine-cup.

Cough not, 18/271;

before your lord, 19/297.

Counturpynt, 192/455, counterpane.

Countyng, 194/535, reckoning.

Courteous, be, to God, and kneel at prayers, 182/163.

Courtesy came from heaven, 265/4; 266/6;

all virtues are included in it, 265/8; 266/10.

Courtesy and gentleness, delight in, 256/180.

Courts (fines of), 196/577.

Couth, 272/118, ? truly, indeed, A.S. cudlice, certainly.

Couthe, 180/114, known persons, friends.

Coverlet of a bed, 63/923.

Cowd, 3/34-5, knew.

Cowche, 13/187, and note, the undermost table-cloth.

Cowheels mixed with jellies, 34/515.

Crab, how to carve and dress one, 42/590-601; 167/14.

Crache, 274/139; 275/14; 276/14.

‘Clawyn or cracchyn, scratche, Scalpo, scrato, grado.’ Cath. in P. Pl.; ‘Krauwen, krabben, kratsen, ofte schrabben.’ Hexham.

Craftsmen, their duty, 242/12.

Cram your mouth full, don’t, 267/38.

Crane (the bird), 36/539; p. 97; 49/695; p. 102, and note *, for their fighting pigmies.

Crane, how to carve, 28/429;

or dysplaye, p. 162.

Crane’s trump, take care of it, 28/431; 159/4.

Crawe, 19/288; Fr. iabot, the craw, crop, or gorge of a bird. Cotgrave.

Crayfish, how it catches oysters, p. 115; p. 117;

freshwater, p. 116.

See Creues, &c.

Cream, cow- and goat-, 7/81; 8/93; p. 85; 54/803;

is bad, 152/27.

“The dyvell burst him, he hath eaten all the creame without me.” Palsgrave, p. 472, col. 2.

Credence, 80/1195-9, tasting food against poison. Only done for the highest ranks, down to an earl.

Creed, to be learnt by boys, 181/167.

Creues, Crevice, Crevis (crayfish)

Creues (crayfish), how to carve, 167/20.

Crevice, freshwater, 58/848.

Crevis dewe douȝ, fresh-water cray-fish; how to carve, 43/618.

Crevise, freshwater, 50/707.

Crevise or cray-fish, how to carve, 42/602;

the names of, p. 100.

Lobster. ‘Finallie of the legged kinde we have not manie, neither haue I seene anie more of this sort than the Polypus called in English the lobstar, crafish or creuis, and the crab, [q. v.]. Carolus Stephanus in his maison rustique, doubted whether these lobstars be fish or not; and in the end concludeth them to grow of the purgation of the water as dooth the frog, and these also not to be eaten, for that they be strong and verie hard of digestion.’ Harrison, v. i. 224-5.

“Lobster” citation moved by author from alphabetic position under “L”: Corrigenda.

Crochettis, 197/446, hooks.

Cropyns, 24/362, crops, craws, of birds.

Croscrist, 181/144.

Cross, make the sign of, on rising, 266/12.

Croups of birds indigestible, 158/7.

Cruddes, 8/93, curds.

Culpon, p. 151, cut into chunks.

Cup, don’t ask a friend to take it, but give it him yourself, 180/123.

Cupboard, 13/193, table or stand for cups, &c., to stand on; is in the marshal’s charge, 189/390;

to be covered with carpets, 169/19.

Cupborde, bread and wine stand on (or in), 194/511.

Cuppeborde in a bed-room, 63/928.

Cups to be silver, p. 136.

Cure, 78/1174, charge.

Cure, 21/324; 31/492; custom, way of doing a thing.

Cure, 28/435, directions.

Cure, 24/375, craft, art, practice.

Curies, 33/506, dodges, curious dishes.

Curlew, 49/706; 157/8;

how to carve, 27/421;

to untache or cut up, p. 162.

Sir Degrevant, l. 1406, 235, has

Cursie, 230/328, curtsey.

Curtains, bed-, 66/968;

four to a bed, 191/448.

Curtasye, the Boke of (Sloane MS. 1986), p. 175-205.

Curtesy, 156/9, a bow or salutation.

Curtsey, make your, decently, 214/153.

Cury, 34/513, dodges, sleights.

Cushion, to be put on the chair, 61/882.

Cuspis, p. 32, note ².

Custade costable, 54/802, a kind of custard.

Custard, how to carve, 31/492; p. 95; 157/1; 159/21.

Cut your meat, don’t bite it, 269/63.

Cut, 153/22, cute wine.

Cute, 9/118; p. 87, No. 3, a sweet wine.

Fr. Vin cuict. Wine boyled on the fire to a certaine thicknesse, and then put into vessells, and reserved for sweet sawces. Cot.

Cute, 10/138, baking.

Cute, gynger of iij, 11/159.

Cuttid, 20/305, short-coated.

Cuttlefish, p. 174.

Cyueye (chive or onion sauce), hares and conies in, p. 146.

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Dace, 40/575; p. 98, bottom, 58/841;

Fr. Sophie ... the Dace or Dare-fish. Cot.

Damsons, 6/77; p. 91, last note (wrongly headed, l. 177); 46/668; 152/23.

Dangle like a bell, don’t, 214/152.

Dates, 5/74; p. 32, note ²; 51/731; 152/21, 23; p. 167, last line.

Dates in confite, 56/825;

in confetes, 166/11;

capte with mynced ginger, 166/19.

Daungeresnes, 46/659, of great difficulty.

Daw, a, sticks its neck askew, 19/285.

Dean, rank of, 70/1016; 72/1060.

Debt, keep out of, 270/80.

Degree, University;

rank of clerks that have taken one, 71/1028.

Degree (of men), the duty of each, 241-3.

Delicatis, 50/713; delicacies.

Delphin, or mermaid, p. 117.

Demeanor, The Booke of, p. 207-14.

Demeene, 78/1163; learn ? or arrange.

Demurely, walk in the streets, 275, 276/18.

Depelled, 142/12, driven out.

Dere, 47/684, injury.

Deshe, 177/20, dais.

Despisers of courtesy are not fit to sit at table, 271/99; 181/137.

Dewe, 43/618, of water.

Dewgarde, leche, 157/10.

Dewynge, 51/732, service.

Deynteithe, 52/752, ? inclination, desire.

Deynteithly, 55/814, toothsomely.

Deyntethe, adj., 50/723, toothsome, dainty.

Deyntethe, sb., 194/527, dainty.

Diaper towel, 154/31.

Diapery, towelle of, 13/193.

Diatrion piperion, to be used against rheums, p. 137.

Dice, don’t play at with your lord, 184/228.

Diet, 31/488, food.

Diet, one for every day, p. 133.

Difence, 278/51;

? Fr. defense, a reply, answer, argument, or allegation vsed, or vrged in defence. Cot.

Faire defense is now to forbid, prohibit.

Dig your thumb into your nose, don’t, 186/327.

Digest his stomak, his food, 65/947.

Digne, 71/1024, worthy.

Diligences, 79/1183, duties.

Dim sight, remedy for, p. 135.

Dinner described, from the laying of the cloth, 199/655, to the removal of the board and trestles, 204/822.

Dinner of flesh, p. 48-50, p. 100;

of fish, p. 50-2;

fruits to be eaten before, 46/667-8.

Dinner at noon, what the page is to do at, 254/128.

Dinner and supper, the only meals allowed, p. 141.

Dip your meat in the saltcellar, don’t.

See Salt.

Dipping slices of meat in sauce, 30/467.

Dirty clothes forbidden, 214/167.

Disallow, 29/1181.

Dischmetes, 34/514. Entry added by editor

Dise, 8/112, an adze?

Dish taken away, don’t ask for it again, 256/166; 179/83.

Dish-side, spoon not to be laid on, 179/73; 272/126.

Dismember, p. 151, carve.

Dispendu, 201/543 (? eatables, &c., not money), disposed of, consumed.

Dispenses, 195/555, payments, expenditure.

Dissolute laughters, avoid, 275/20.

Diswere, 191/436, doubt. Halliwell.

“Platt-D. waren is to certify, assure; to prove by witnesses, &c.; wahr, true, is, I believe, what is certain, sure. ‘Ik will jou de Waarschup darvan bringen,’ I will bring you the truth of it, will bring you certain intelligence of it. Diswere then would be uncertainty.”—H. Wedgwood.

Do to others as you would they’d do to you, 182/175.

Doctor of both laws (Canon and Civil), utriusque juris, 71/1024; 72/1062.

Doctor of divinity, rank of, 70/1021; 72/1062.

Doctors of 12 years’ standing, rank above those of nine, 77/1153.

Document, 250/6, L. documentum, that which teaches, a lesson, example for instruction; Fr. document, precept, instruction, admonition. Cot.

Dog, don’t claw yours at dinner, 179/87.

Dogs to be turned out of bedrooms, 66/969; p. 109; 169/33.

One reason for turning dogs out of the bedroom at night is given in Palsgrave’s “I wolde gladly yonder dogge were hanged, he never ceased whowlyng all nyght,” p. 784-5.

Donne, 169/23, down.

Dorray, 51/733, dorée.

Doree, the fish, 41/582; 166/12.

Dosurs, 189/391, canopies, hangings:

‘Docere of an halle: Dorsorium, auleum.’ Prompt. Fr.

Vn dossier de pavillon. The head of a Pauillion, or Canopie; the peece that hangs down at the head thereof. Cot.

Doted daf (confounded ass, stupid fool), don’t be one, 186/326.

Doublet, 60/872; 61/892; 62/899; 169/1.

Douȝ, 43/618, soft, fresh (water).

Dowcetes, dowcettes, a dish, 32/494;

recipe at p. 146; 49/699; 54/809.

Dowled drink not to be given to any one, 154/22;

dowld, dead, flat (Yorkshire), Halliwell; not ‘dollyd, sum what hotte, tepefactus.’ Prompt.

Dowt, 79/1188, fear.

Doyle, 19/285, skew.

Draconites, 141/7, the dragonstone.

Dragons herbe, p. 134.

Drapery, 64/946, cloths.

Draughtes, 25/388, drawn lines, scorings.

Dresser, in the kitchen, 195/557.

Dressing described, p. 168-9.

Drink hinders digestion, p. 136.

Drink, how assayed, 203/785-93;

how to hand, 209/9.

Drink not behind a man’s back, 269/75;

wipe your mouth first, 272/105.

Drink all in the cup, don’t, 185/289.

Drink with full mouth, don’t, 272/110.

Drink moderately, 279, 280/73.

Drivel not with your mouth, 19/292.

Drop soup on your breast, don’t, 279, 280/57.

Dropynge from the eyes, 18/283.

Drunk, don’t get, p. 258, p. 260, l. D.

Drunkelewe, 216/1, drunken;

‘drunkelew ebriosus.’ Prompt.

For the -lewe = -ly; cp. ‘delicat horses that ben holden for delyt, that they ben so faire, fat, and costlewe.’ Chaucer. Parsones Tale, Poet. Works, ed. Morris, iii. 298; costlewe furring in here gownes, ib. p. 296.

Drunken servants to be turned away, 216/1.

Dry thy mouth before drinking, 179/81.

Duchess, 200/680.

Duck: see Mallard.

‘The ducke maketh a clere voyce, & causeth man to lay gladdly in the armes & geueth hym the sede of nature / & the sewet is Noble Lyfe. L. i. back.

Dugard, leche, 50/708.

Duke of royal blood, 70/1011; 72/1048.

Duke to dine alone, 171/4.

Dumb, don’t be, 184/255.

Dysfygure, p. 151, carve.

Dysplaye, p. 151, carve.

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Earl, the lowest rank for which food was tasted by a servant, 80/1198.

Ears, not to be picked, 267/33; 19/289;

to be kept clean, 226/99.

Ease (quiet), live in, 270/82.

Easter-day feast, p. 160.

Easter to Whit-sunday, feasts and service from, p. 160.

Eat properly, 263/40;

not hastily, 265/19.

Eat, don’t, till your mess is brought from the kitchen, 178/43.

Echeola, the pearl-muscle, p. 117.

Echynus, p. 118.

Edwite, 278/28, blame, reproach, turt; A.S. edwítan.

Eel, salt, 57/834.

Eels, bred from slime, p. 114.

Eels, roasted, 41/588; 58/848.

Eels, names of, p. 99.

Eels, 50/719; 51/737; 55/820; p. 104.

Eernesful, p. 260, l. E;

A.S. geornes, earnestness; geornfull, full of desire, eager, anxious.

Egestyon, 130/15, evacuations.

Egge, 22/335, edge.

Eggs, 54/803; p. 106.

Egre, 57/837; Fr. aigre, eagre, sharpe, tart, biting, sower. Cot.

Egret, 36/539; p. 97; 49/697, great white heron.

Egret, how to carve, 27/421; to breke or carve, p. 162.

Elbows, don’t lean on, at meals, 267/45; 180/125.

Elemosinarius, 201/728-9, the Almoner.

Elenge, p. 260, l. E.

Elephant, don’t you snuffle like he does, 211/59.

Elizabeth, 265/6; 266/8.

Embrowyng, 255/147, dirtying, soiling;

Fr. embroué, bedurtied, soiled, defiled. Cot.

Emperialle, 15/231, set out, deck, adorn.

Emperor, after the pope, 70/1006.

Empty your mouth before speaking, 263/59; 272/110; 277/32; 278/32.

Enboce, p. 277, l. 31, stuff out;

Enbrace, p. 278,

? Fr. emboucher, to mouth or put into the mouth of.

Enbrewe, 22/331, dirty, soil.

Enbrowide, 278/39;

Fr. embroué, ... bedurtied, soiled, defiled. Cotgrave.

Enbrowynge, 30/468, soiling, dirtying.

Enclyne, 177/23, bow.

End of a meal, what to do at the, 257/190.

Endoured, 161/3, glazed;

endoured pygyons, 164/15.

Endure, 35/524, make to last;

‘endurer faut pour durer:’ Pro. To dure we must endure. Cotgrave.

Enemies, man’s three, 183/219.

Englandis gise, a flesh feast after, 35/526.

Enlased, 26/412, cut up, carved.

Enourmyd, 250/17, adorned; O. Fr. aorner, L. adornare; not enorer, honour.

Entende, 64/936, 939, attend.

Entendyng, 46/665, listening for orders, attending.

Enter a lord’s place, how to, 252/58.

Entremete, 254/109, interfere.

Envy no one, 237/795.

Equal, give way to your, 185/276;

don’t play with him, 264/77.

Errands, going, 209/13.

Esox, a fish of the Danube, p. 118.

Esquyere, þe body, 70/1016, the Esquire of the King’s person.

Est, 187/346, host.

Estate, how to lay or make, with a cloth, 13/192; 17/152; p. 92.

Estate, 65/957, rank, 73/1072-3.

Estates, 72/1053, ranks, persons.

Euwere, 199/641, water-bringer;

L. aquarius, Fr. eauïer, is a gutter, channell, sinke, sewer, for the voiding of foule water. Cotgrave.

Evacuate yourself, p. 133.

Evy, 7/91, heavy.

Ewer, 64/937; 231/413, jug of water;

water-bearer, 199/641, 655, &c.

Ewerer, strains water into the basins, 200/695.

Ewery, 13/192, drinking vessels.

Ewery, 154/31, stand or cupboard for water-vessels;

how to dress it, 155/23.

Exonerate, 130/16, unload, disburden.

Eyebright water, 135/2.

Eyes, don’t make ’em water by drinking too much, 263/57.

Eyes, don’t wipe ’em on the table-cloth, 180/116;

wash them, p. 134; p. 139.

Eyes, how to use the, 210/33.

Eyes, not to be cast about, 275, 276/8; 231/679.

Eyroun, p. 146, eggs.

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Facche, 42/599, fetch.

Face, look in the man’s you’re speaking to, 262/16; 270/67.

Facett, 250/8;

Fr. Facet: m. A Primmer, or Grammer for a young scholler. Cotgrave.

Faceet, booke, Facetus (well-speaking, polite). Pr. Parv.

Falconers, 195/564.

Fall, if any one does, don’t laugh at him, 184/235.

Familiar, don’t be too, p. 258, F; p. 260, line F.

Familiar friends, always admit, p. 217, No. xv.

Fande, 76/1143, try, experience?

Fangle, 229/268, toy, thing.

Farsed, 23/358; p. 94, stuffed.

Fast now and then, p. 142.

Father and mother; worship and serve them, 182/172.

Fathers and mothers, duty of, 241/4.

Fatnes, 277/37; 278/39, fat, grease.

Faucettes, 152/16, taps.

Fawcet, 5/68; p. 84; 152/16, a tap.

Yn tyme therfore tye vp your tryacle tappe; Let fawset renne. Piers of Fullham, l. 228-9. Early Pop. P., v. 2, p. 10.

Stryke out the heed of your vesselles, our men be to thrustye to tarye tyll their drinke be drawen with a faulsed. Palsgrave, p. 740, col. 1.

Fr. Guille: f. The quille or faucet of a wine vessell. Cot.

Fawn, 49/694;

how to carve, 28/441.

Fawn, and ginger sauce, 36/537.

Fawte, 82/1238, make default or mistakes.

Fayge, fruyter, 157/10; p. 173.

Featherbed to be beaten, 63/921; 169/12.

Feed elegantly, 256/185.

Feede onely twice a day, p. 141.

Feet to be kept still, 270/66; 275/7; 279, 280/56.

Feet and hands together, 235/677.

Feet, what birds to be served with their, 28/435.

Fele, 11/155, 157, perceive, taste;

24/364, ? taste or see;

23/349, understand.

Feleyly, 270/94, fellowly, sociable.

Felle, 262/21; 264/89; ? stern, or discreet.

See Cold.

Fende, 82/1233, defend.

Fenel-water, p. 139.

Fenelle, the brown, 67/991.

Fercularius, 202/749, the Sewer.

Fere, 50/719, company; in fere, together.

Fere, 53/774, companion.

Fermys, 197/596, rents;

Fr. ferme, a farme or lease, a thing farmed, a toll, rent, mannor or demesne in farme. Cot.

Ferour, 197/612, 615, farrier;

Fr. Mareschal ferrant. Cot.

Few words, use, 270/73.

Fieldfares, 165/3.

Fieldmen, how they fly at their food, 256/176.

Figs, fritters of, p. 145.

Figs, 152/21; 166/18,

in Cornwall, raisins are called figs, ‘a thoomping figgy pudden,’ a big plum pudding. Spec. of Cornish Dialect, p. 53.

Filthy talking, against, 239, cap. xii.

Finger, don’t point with, 270/69;

don’t mark your tale with, 279, 280/71.

Fingering, avoid it, 184/249.

Fingers, meat to be eaten with, 269/55;

nose not to be blown with, 262/19; 18/284; 210/51;

not to be put in one’s cup, 18/272;

or on the dish, 267/27;

keep ’em clean, 272/107;

wipe ’em on a napkin, 232/465.

Fingers, two, & a thumb, to be put on a knife, 21/320-4; 22/326.

Fingers and hands, keep still, 275/7; 276/7.

Fingers and toes to be kept still, 186/320.

Fins of fish to be cut off, 39/560.

Fire at meals in winter, p. 142.

Fire, have a good one, 169/20.

Fire in bed-room, p. 128.

Fire in hall at every meal from Nov. 1 to Feb. 2, 189/393-8.

Fire to dress by, 61/888.

Fire to be clear, 60/877.

Fire-screens for a lord, 192/462.

First course of fish, p. 166.

Fish, a dinner of, three courses, & one of fruit, p. 50.

Ieune chair vieil poisson: Prov. Old flesh and young fish (is fit for the dish). Cot.

Fish, carving & dressing of, p. 37; p. 98, &c.; p. 166;

how assayed, 203/767-70;

sauces for, p. 56; 168/4;

sewynge or courses of, p. 166.

Fish, salt, 57/833.

Fish, names of, from Yarrell, p. 110;

extracts from Laurens Andrewe on, p. 113.

Fisshe, p. 121, p. 123, the flesh or body of fish.

Fist, close your hand in it, 264/71; keep your opinions to yourself.

Fist, not to be put on the table, 267/45.

Fit servants only to be engaged, p. 215.

Flapjack, 96/13, a fried cake.

Flasche, 65/985, dash.

Flauer, 130/11, warm & air.

Flaunes, 161/4; p. 173;

flawne, 96/12, a kind of tart;

Fr. flans: m. Flawnes, Custards, Egge-pies. Cotgrave. Du. een kees vlaeye, a Cheese-cake or Flawne. Hexham.

Flax, wild, 69/994.

Flea, don’t scratch after one, 18/279.

Flemings, great drinkers, p. 131, note.

Flesche-mought, 18/280, louse.

Flesh, carving of, p. 24; p. 157;

how assayed, 203/767-70;

sauces for, p. 35;

sewynge or succession of dishes of, p. 156.

Flesh, a dinner of, p. 48.

Flette, 201/711, room, floor.

Fleumaticus, 54/792; p. 104.

Flewische, 53/777, melancholy.

Flounders, 55/819; 58/842; 168/10.

Flyte, 178/54, quarrel; don’t, 270/92.

Focas or phocas, p. 118.

Follow your better, how to, 264/83-6.

Foole, 96/12, as in gooseberry-fool.

Foot-cushion, 61/882-4.

Footmen to run by ladies’ bridles, 198/621.

Foot-sheet, how to prepare it, 61/879-84; 65/956; 67/988.

Foot-sheet, the lord sits on it while he is undressed for bed, 193/488.

For, 3/34, because;

178/42, notwithstanding.

For, 18/275, against, to stop or prevent.

Forcast, 180/104, plot, scheme for.

Forder, 235/698, further.

Fordo, 180/100, done for, killed.

Forehead, to be joyful, 210/37.

Forenoon, work in the, p. 141.

Forewryter, 77/1243, transcriber?

Forfeits to a lord, go to the treasurer, 196/577.

Forfetis, 281/52;

Fr. forfaict: m. A crime, sinne, fault, misdeed, offence, trespasse, transgression. Cot.

Forgive, 182/185.

Formes, 189/389; 192/464, forms, benches.

Foul tales, don’t tell, at table 255/140.

Fourpence a piece for hire of horses, 188/376.

See Notes, p. 283.

Four slices in each bit of meat, 159/18.

Foxskin garments for winter, p. 139.

Franklin, a feast for one, p. 54.

Franklins, rank of, 71/1071.

Fray, 81/1210, fright.

Freke, 184/255, man, fellow; A.S. freca, one who is bold.

Fretoure powche, 49/700;

fruture sage, 50/708.

Friars, give way to them on pilgrimages, 186/303.

Fricacion, or rubbing of the body, is good, p. 130 n.

Fried things are fumose or indigestible, 21/358; 30/500; 32/512; 54/6.

They generally came in the last course (see Modus Cenandi). Du Guez, after speaking of the English dishes in order, pottage, beef, mutton, capons, river birds, game, and lastly, small birds, says, “howbeit that in Spaine and in Fraunce the use [succession at dinner] of suche metes is more to be commended than ours ... for they begynne always with the best, and ende with the most grosse, which they leave for the servantes, where-as we do al the contrary,” p. 1072.

Friend, don’t mistrust or fail him, 219/3.

Friendly, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 260, line F.

Friezeadow coats for winter, p. 133.

Fritters, 33/501; 34/511; 51/725, 737; 54/810; 157/24-6; 163/32; 165/3.

See Fruter, &c.

Friture, a, 51/725.

Frogs shelter themselves under the leaves of Scabiosa, p. 109, note on l. 987.

Frote, 19/288, wring, twist. Fretyn or chervyn (chorvyn), Torqueo. Prompt.

Frown, don’t, 213/132.

Froyze, 96/13, pancake, or omelet.

Fruits to be eaten before dinner, 46/667-8.

But of all maner of meate, the moost daungerous is that whiche is of fruites (fruitz crudz), as cheres, small cheryse (guingues2), great cherise (gascongnes), strauberis, fryberis (framboises) mulberis, cornelles,3 preunes, chestaynes nuts, fylberdes, walnuttes, cervyse, medlers, aples, peres, peches, melons, concombres, and all other kyndes of fruites, howbeit that youth, bycause of heate and moystnesse, doth dygest them better than age dothe. Du Guez’s Introductorie, p. 1073-4.

Frumenty potage, 25/391, furmity.

Frumenty, 37/547; 38/549;

with venesoun, 33/518.

Frusshe, p. 151, carve.

Fruter Crispin & Napkin, p. 96.

Fruture viant, sawge & pouche, 33/501, ? meat, sage, & poached fritters.

Fruturs, 34/511;

Fruyters, 163/32, fritters;

recipes for, p. 145.

Fryture, a, 51/737, fritter.

Fuel, a groom for, 189/385.

Full belly and hungry, 265/17.

Fumose, 23/353, fume-creating, indigestible.

Fumositees, p. 23-4.

Fumosities, p. 23; p. 94; 151/4; p. 158,

indigestibilities, indigestible things creating noxious fumes in the belly that ascend to the brain;

such to be set aside, 25/396.

Fumosity, 8/105; p. 86.

Furs to be brushed every week, 64/943.

Fustian, 63/922, a cloth over and under the sheets of a bed.

Fustyan, whyte, 130/2.

Fygges, 5/74; p. 84, figs.

Fyle, 191/435, fill?

Fylour, 191/447, a rod on which the bed-curtains hung.

“Fylour looks like felloe, G. felge, which is explained as something bent round; it would apply to the curtain-rod round the top of the bed.” Wedgwood.

Fylynge, 263/52, dirtying;

A.S. fúlian, to foul; fýlnes, foulnes; fýlđ, filth.

Fynne, p. 151, cut up.

Fyr, 184/232, further.

Fyr hous, 194/514, privy?

Fysegge, p. 216, No. x, phiz, face.

Fytt, 204/806, section of a poem.

Fytte, 67/980, while, time.

Fyxfax, to be taken out of the neck, 28/444.

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Gabriel, angel, 265/5; 266/7; 48/692.

Galantyne sauce, 40/569; 58/840; 167/27, 29; 168/9.

Galantyne, to be mixed with lamprey pie, 44/634;

recipe for, p. 100.

Galingale, p. 44, last line but one; p. 100.

Galingale: Sp. Júncia avellanda, Júnca odoróso, galingale.—Minsheu. Reference added by editor

Gallants, shortcoated, denounced, 20/305.

Galleymawfrey, 96/14, a dish.

Gallowgrass, p. 124.

Game, some, to be played before going to business, p. 131.

Gamelyn sauce, 36/539; 37/541.

Gaming, the fruits of, 234, cap. vi.

Ganynge, 19/294, yawning:

Ganynge or Ȝanynge, Oscitus. Prompt. I gane, or gape, or yane, ie baille. Palsgrave, ib. “I yane, I gaspe or gape. Je baille.” Palsgrave.

Gape not, 19/294;

when going to eat, 272/65.

Gaping is rude, 211/77.

Garcio, 191/434-5, groom (of the chamber).

Gardevyan, 80/1202, a safe for meat.

Gares, 190/420, causes.

Garlic, 58/843.

Garlic, the sauce for roast beef and goose, 36/536.

Garlic, green, with goose, 164/2.

Gastarios, a fish, p. 118.

Gate, on coming to a lord’s, what to do, 177/5.

See also 252/58.

Gaze about, don’t, 192/175.

Gele, p. 49, note ²;

gelly, 166/11, jelly.

Gelopere sauce, 165/4; p. 173.

Gentilmen welle nurtured, 71/1038.

Gentilwommen, rank of, 71/1039.

Gentlemen, one property of, 220/18.

Gentlemen of the chamber, 191/433.

Gentlemen’s table in hall, 178/33.

Gentyllis, 273/93, gentlefolk.

Geson, 54/803, scarce.

Gesse, 230/350, guest.

Gestis, 79/1189, guests.

Getting-up in the morning, a lord, how dressed, p. 61.

Gild, 25/231, gilt plate.

Ginger, white and green, 5/75;

colombyne, valadyne, and maydelyn, 10/131-2;

columbyne, 52/758;

green, 152/21.

Ginger sauce with lamb, kid, &c., 36/537.

Ginger, 58/847;

with pheasant, 164/19.

Girdle, 64/907.

Girls, young, pick their noses, 186/328.

Girls: home-education, xxv, xv, &c. Entry added by editor.

Glaucus, a white fish, p. 118.

Glorious (boasting), don’t be too, p. 258, p. 260, line G.

Glosand, 186/313, lying.

Glose, 183/199, deceit, lie.

Glosere, 268/59.

Fr. flateur, a flatterer, glozer, fawner, soother, foister, smoother; a claw-backe, sycophant, pickthanke. Cot.

Gloves to be taken off on entering the hall, 177/16.

Gloves, perfumed, 132/8-9.

Cp. in the account of Sir John Nevile, of Chete, in The Forme of Cury, p. 171, “for a pair of perfumed Gloves, 3s. 4d.; for a pair of other Gloves, 4d.”

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 79/1177; 82/1230; p. lxxxii.

Glowtynge, 18/281, looking sulky, staring. Halliwell.

Sw. glutta; Norse, glytta, gletta, look out of the corner of the eye. Wedgwood.

Gnastynge, 20/301, note ⁵.

Gnaw bones, don’t, 232/457.

Goatskin gloves, 132/9.

Goben, 39/566, cut into lumps.

Gobone, 167/2, cut in lumps; 167/29, a piece.

Gobyn, 41/580; p. 99, gobbets.

Gobyns, 45/638, lumps, pieces.

‘God be here!’ say on entering, 270/86.

Good cheer, make, at table, 269/53, be jolly.

Good manners, learn, 232/507.

‘Good Morning;’ say it to all you meet, 266/20.

Goodly, 62/908, nattily.

Goose, how to carve, 26/402; p. 163, last line but one;

garlic its sauce, 36/536;

roast, 54/801; 222.

Goshawk, p. 103, note on Heironsew.

Gown, a man’s, 62/904.

Gowt of a crayfish, 43/607.

Grace, 46/663,

the prayer before dinner, 229/305-322;

to be said by the Almoner, 221/729.

Grace after dinner, sit still till it’s said, 271/82;

pages to stand by 257/197.

Gradewable, p. 170, graduated, have taken degrees.

Gramed, 23/348, angered, vexed.

Granat, 141/11, a garnet.

Grapes, 6/77; 46/668; 152/21.

Gravelle of beeff or motoun, 34/519.

Gravus, a fish, p. 120.

Graynes, 9/123; 10/137, 141; p. 91. Fr. Maniguet, the spice called Graines, or graines of Paradise. Cot.

Graynes of paradice, 151/32.

Graytly, 61/886; entirely, quite.

Grayue, 196/576, 589, 597, reeve, outdoor steward.

Greable, 13/192, suitable.

Great birds, 49/698.

Grece (fat), hen of, 158/29.

Green cheese, p. 84, n. to l. 74.

Green fish, 58/851, ling.

Fr. Moruë: f. The Cod, or Greenefish (a lesse and dull-eyed kind whereof is called by some, the Morhwell). Moruë verte. Greenefish. Moruyer. Poissonnier moruyer. A Fishmonger that sells nothing but Cod, or Greenefish. Cot.

Green sauce, 58/851; 168/13, 14.

Green wax, accounts to be briefed with, 192/536.

Greet the men you meet, 200/251.

Greithe, 61/880, ready.

Greke, 9/120; 86/31; p. 90, No. 12, a sweet wine.

Grene metis, 8/97, green vegetables.

Greve, 81/1214. Fr. grief, trouble.

Greyhounds fed on brown bread, 198/628; p. 84, note on l. 51;

each has a bone, &c., 198/633.

“Eau & pain, c’est la viande du chien. Prov.: Bread and water is diet for dogs.” Cot.

Greyn, 62/914, a crimson stuff or cloth.

Grin, don’t, 269/57; 277, 278/29.

Grisynge, 20/301, grinding.

Groan not, 19/298.

Groggynge, 18/273, grumbling.

Grutchyn, gruchyn, murmuro. Prompt. Gruger, to grudge, repine, mutter. Cot.

Grone fische, 38/555.

Groom of the King may sit with a knight, 75/1122-5; 172/1.

Grooms of the Chamber, their duties, p. 191-2.

Groos, 29/461, large.

Grossetest, Bp., his Household Statutes, p. 215-18.

Grouellynge, adv. 129/8, 12, face downwards.

Growelle of force, 34/519; p. 97.

Gruell of befe or motton, 159/27.

Grumbling of servants to be put down, p. 208. Citation unidentified: possibly p. 217.

Gudgeons, 55/819; p. 118.

Guns blasting, (breaking wind,) to be avoided, 20/304.

The parallel passage in Sloane MS. 2027 (fol. 42, last line), is “And alle wey be ware thyn ars be natte carpyng.”

Gurdylstode, 191/442, girdlestead, waist.

Gurnard, 40/574; 51/725; 58/849;

baked, 198/9.

Ȝyme, 186/304, attend to, wish, like.

Gymlet, 5/67, 71.

Gynger, 3 kinds of, 10/131-2; p. 91.

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Haberdine, ‘Mouschebout: m. The spotted Cod whereof Haberdine is made.’ Cot.

Hable, 254/111, fitting, due.

Had, 274/149, ? held in the memory.

Hadde-y-wyste, 264/72; vain after-regret, ‘had I but known how it would have turned out.’

Haddock, 58/845, 200/11.

Haddock, how to carve, 39/576.

Haft of a knife, 200/675.

Hair, don’t scratch, for lice, 18/280;

to be combed, 213/125.

Hake, 58/845; p. 107; 166/31.

Hakenay buttur, 39/559.

Halata, p. 118.

Hale, 253/101, A.S. hál, healthy.

Half-penny; farrier paid one a day, 197/616;

hunter one for every hound, 198/629.

Halke, 2/24; A.S. hylca, hooks, turnings. Somner.

Hall, who should not keep it (? meaning), 72/1048;

who seated in, 217/19-22.

Hall, head of the house to eat in, p. 215, No. xv.

Halybut, a fish, 41/584; 39/735; 166/12; 167/11.

Hammering in speech is bad, 212/109.

Hand to be cleaned when you blow your nose in it, 199/90;

put it on your stomach to warm the latter, p. 129.

Handkerchief for the nose, 210/49;

‘Jan. 1537-8, my ladys grace lanes handekerchers silkys.’ P. P. Exp. of Princess Mary, p. 54.

Handle nothing while you are spoken to, 253/83.

Hands and feet, keep ’em quiet, 186/317.

Hands, to be washed, 277, 278/22;

before meals, 187/343, 201/713-21;

to be wiped before taking hold of the cup, 255/156.

Hands to be clean at meals, 263/41, 51; 265/9; 266/13.

Hang in hand, 183/199; be delayed.

Hanging down your head is wrong, 213/130.

Hard cheese, the virtues of, 152/29.

See Cheese.

Hare, 34/517; chive sauce to,

See Ceuye.

Harington, Sir John; the Dyet for every day, p. 138-9;

on Rising and going to Bed, p. 140-1.

Harm of others, don’t talk, at table, 180/102.

Harpooning whales, p. 116.

Harts-skin garments to be worn in summer, p. 139.

Harvest, the device of, 52/754.

Hastily, don’t eat, 265/19.

Hasty, don’t be, 279, 280/78.

Hat, 62/909.

Haylys, 184/253, salute.

O.N. heilsa, Dan. hilsa, to salute, to cry hail to. Wedgwood.

Head and hands, keep quiet, 253/80.

Head, don’t hang it, 255/148;

don’t cast it down, 276/16;

don’t bend it too low, 193/330.

Heads of field- and wood-birds p. 165-6.

Headsheet, 63/925; 65/950; 66/965.

Hede, 271/91, host, master or lord of a house at a meal.

Hedge-hogs’ countenauces, 210/43.

Heelfulle, 250/10, health-ful, help-ful.

Heere, 35/524;

Sloane MS. 1315 reads hele, health.

Heironsew (the heron), 49/696; p. 103.

See Heron.

Hele, 199/655, cover.

Helle, 254/131, ? not ‘clear, A.S. helle,’ but from hyldan, to incline, bend, and so pour.

Help all, be ready to, 183/193.

Help others from your own dish, p. 217, No. xiv.

Hemp, the names of, p. 124;

its advantages, p. 125-6.

Hen, fat, how to carve, 26/409; 34/517.

Henchman, p. ii.; Mayster of the henshmen—escvier de pages dhonnevr. Palsgrave.

Hende, 254/122, hands.

Henderson’s Hist. of Ancient and Modern Wines, p. 87, &c.

Her, 185/294, higher.

Herald of Arms, 71/1035;

king or chief herald, l. 1036.

Herber, 190/427, lodge, accommodate.

Herbe benet, 68/993.

Herbe John, 68/992.

Herbs in sheets to be hung round the bath-room, 67/977.

Herne, 2/24, corner.

Heron, to dysmembre or carve, p. 162.

See Heyron-sewe.

Heronsew, 157/5;

to be cooked dry, 164/20.

Chaucer, March. Tale, l. 60, v. 2, p. 357, ed. Morris.

Herring, L. Andrewe on the, p. 114.

Herrings, baked, 50/722;

fresh, 58/844;

fresh, broiled, 52/748;

salt, 57/832.

Herrings, how to carve and serve, 38/550-3.

Herrings, white, or fresh, how to serve up, 45/641-5, 166/28.

Hethyng, 185/266, contempt.

Heyhove, 68/993, a herb.

Heyriff, 68/993, a herb.

Heyron-sewe, 36/539; p. 97, the heron: how to carve it, 27/422.

Hiccup not, 19/298.

High name, the, 181/152, God?

Highest place, don’t take unless bidden, 187/347.

Hit, for his, 29/456.

Hithe, 53/783, it.

Hold your hand before your mouth when you spit; 272/115-18.

Hole of the privy to be covered, 64/933.

Holy water, take it at the church-door, 182/160.

Holyhock, 67/991.

Holyn, 189/399. ?

Bosworth gives A.S. holen, a rush; Wright’s Vocab., holin, Fr. hous; and that Cotgrave glosses ‘The Hollie, Holme, or Huluer tree.’ Ancren Riwle, 418 note *, and Rel. Ant., ii. 280, have it too. See Stratmann’s Dict. Corrigenda

Hom, 185/273, them.

Homes, servants to visit their own, p. 217, No. xi.

Honest, 269/74, fitting, proper.

Honeste, 65/954, propriety, decency.

Honey not clarified, used for dressing dischmetes, 34/514.

Hood, a man’s, 62/909.

Hood, take it off, 177/16.

Hoopid, 12/167, made round like a hoop.

Hor, 187/272, their.

Hornebeaks, p. 97, note on l. 533.

Horse-hire, 4d. a day, 188/375.

Horsyng, 195/564, being horsed, horses.

Hose, p. 108;

to be rubbed, 226/91.

Du. koussen, Stockins or Hosen; opper-koussen, Hose or Breeches; onder koussen, Nether-stockins; boven koussen, Upper-hosen, or Briches. Hexham.

Hosen, 130/10; 168/31.

Hosyn, 60/873; 62/895-8; 65/961; p. 108, breeches.

Hostiarius, 190/430-1, usher.

Hot dishes, a dodge to prevent them burning your hands, 202/757-60.

Hot wines, p. 83, in extract from A. Borde.

Houndfisch, 41/584; p. 99; 56/827; 58/844; 167/11, dogfish.

Chaucer, Marchaundes Tale, v. 2, 223, ed. Morris.

Houndes-fysshe, mortrus of, 168/2.

Household bread, 4/55;

to be 3 days old, 152/6.

Housholde, Babees that dwelle in, 251/45;

Forewords, pp. ii., x., xi., &c.

Howndes Dayes, p. 118, Cap. xl., dog-days.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 82/1230; App. to Russell Pref.

Hunte, 198/629, huntsman; pl.,

Huntes, 198/628, huntsmen.

Hure, 24/376, hood, cap.

Hurtilberyes, 7/82; p. 85, n. to l. 81, 152/24.

Husbands, the duty of, 237/8.

Hyacinth, 141/11, jacinth, a precious stone.

Hyȝt, 183/201, promised, vowed.

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Jack and Jill, don’t chatter with, 271/90.

Iangelynge, 253/94, chattering, (don’t be), p. 258, p. 261, line I.

Iangle (chatter), don’t, 252/68; 229/266.

Iangylle, 271/90, chatter;

‘iangelyn, or iaveryn, iaberyn, garrulo blatero.’ P. Parv.

Janitor, 188/360-1, the porter.

Iapynge, 253/95, joking.

Iardyne, almond, 52/744.

Idle, don’t be, 268/32.

Jealousy, hate it, p. 258, p. 260, line G.

Jelies, 34/511;

iely, 49/693.

Jelly, 34/511; 35/520; 51/731; 56/825; p. 97.

Iestis, 59/858, proceedings, dinners.

Iettis, p. 261, l. N, fashions.

Iettynge, p. 261, l. I, showing-off,

‘I iette w^t facyon and countenaunce to set forthe myselfe, ie braggue.’ Palsgrave, in Way.

Iettynge, 20/300, note ³.

Fr. Poste a rakehell, or Colledge-seruant, thats euer gadding or ietting abroad. Cot.

Ignorance, the evils of, 228/230.

Imbrowe, 255/157, dirty, soil.

Improberabille, 54/795, very proper?

Impytous, p. 132, impetuous (last line).

Infect, 83/1249.

Fr. infecter, to infect; poison; depraue, corrupt. Cot.

Ingredyentes, 11/144, materials.

Inhumanitie, 225/155, discourtesy.

Interrupt no one, 279/69.

Intrippe, 280/69, interrupt.

John the Baptist’s day to Michaelmas, feasts from, p. 164.

John, Duke, a yeoman in his house got a reward, 199/647.

Iolle of þe salt sturgeoun, 44/622; p. 99; 167/23.

Ioncate, 7/82; p. 85; 152/28,

junket, orig. cream-cheese made in wicker-baskets, from L. juncus, a rush. Mahn.

‘Junkets, Cakes and Sweetmeats with which Gentlewomen entertain one another, and Young-men their Sweethearts; any sort of delicious Fare to feast and make merry with.’ Philipps.

Iowtes, p. 160, last line; p. 173.

Irweue, 85/3.

? Fr. Mulette ... the maw of a Calfe, which being dressed is called the Renet-bag, Ireness-bag, or Cheslop-bag. Cot.

Judges, the duty of, 241/2.

Iusselle, 35/520; 54/805; 159/28;

recipe for, p. 145.

Justices, the under, rank of, 70/1018; 72/1061.

Ivory comb, 62/902.

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Karle, 267/48, churl, poor man.

Karpyng, 263/62, talking. Carpynge, Loquacitas, collocutio. Prompt.

Kater, 196/580, cater, provide.

Kepe, 202/760, take care.

Kepyng (stingy), don’t be, p. 258, p. 261, line K.

Kercheff, 61/885.

Kerpe, 272/120,

? is it complain, or only talk, chatter;

‘carpyn or talkyn, fabulor, confabulor, garrulo,’ Pr. Parv. ‘to carpe, (Lydgate) this is a farre northen verbe, cacqueter.’ Palsgrave, ib. note.

Or is it break wind?

See Guns.

The Sloane MS. 2027, fol. 42, has for l. 304 of Russell, p. 20, ‘And alle wey be ware thyn ars be natte carpyng.’

Keruynge of flesshe, p. 157;

of fysshe, p. 166.

Kerver, termes of a, p. 151.

Keuer, 17/265-6, cover, put covers or dishes for.

Kickshaw, 96/14, a tart.

Kid, 49/694; 54/807;

with ginger sauce, 46/537;

how to carve, 28/441.

Kidney of fawn, &c. to be served, 159/9.

Kind, be always, 183/195.

Kind, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line K.

King ranks with an emperor, 70/1007; 72/1045.

King’s Messengers, 171/31.

King’s officers, 171/25.

King’s servants to be received as one degree higher than they are, 75/1117-27.

Knaves’ tricks, beware of, p. 258, p. 261, line K.

Knee, don’t put yours under other men’s thighs, 180/119.

Kneel on one knee to men, on both to God, 182/163-6.

Kneel, the Ewerer to do so, on giving water to any one, 199/653.

Kneel to your lord on one knee, 252/62.

Knife, don’t play with your, 279, 280/54;

don’t put it in your mouth, 256/162; 180/113;

take salt with it, 272/97. (When were saltspoons introduced?)

Knife, don’t pick your teeth with, 180/94.

Knives to be clean, 279, 280/58;

to be sharp, 263/42;

to be clean and sharp, 255/137; 272/119;

to be wiped on a napkin, not on the tablecloth, 22/332.

Knives to be put up after meals, 257/191.