Note 1 — M.A., TRIN. HALL. CAMB.; MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE PHILOLOGICAL AND EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETIES; LOVER OF OLD BOOKS. (continued 5)
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Though it goes against one’s ideas of propriety to print from a copy, yet when one wants the substance of a MS., it’s better to take it from a copy, when you can get it, than fret for five years till the MS. turns up. When it does so, we can print it if necessary, its owner permitting.
2. on.
3. For bread, see § III., p. 352.
4. Folded. Cf. ‘a towaile applyed dowble’ below. Fr. plier, to fould, plait, plie. Cotgrave.
5. What is done with these loaves does not appear. The carver in Motion 12, Section IV., pares the loaves wherewith he serves the guests.
6. Goblets or cups: ? also ornamental pieces of plate. ‘A peece of wyne’ occurs in Ladye Bessiye, Percy Folio, Ballads & Romances, vol. iii., and in the Percy Society’s edition. John Lord Nevill of Raby, in 1383, bequeaths 48 silver salt-cellars ... 32 peces, 48 spoons, 8 chargers, 27 jugs, &c. Domestic Architecture, ii. 66. ‘Diota. Horat. Any drinking peece having two eares, a two-eared drinking cup.’ Nomenclator in Nares.
7. Sewed or served therewith.
8. salted or pickled.
9. ? firste. The directions for taking-away seem repeated here, unless these second ones apply only to the spoons, napkins, &c. The cups are wanted for dessert.
10. crumb-brushes were not then invented.
11. Fr. ferial, of or belonging to a holyday. Vn ferial beuveur, a square drinker, a faithfull drunkard; one that will take his liquor soundly. Cotgrave. Feries, Holydaies, feastiuall daies, properly such holydaies as Monday and Tuesday in Easter week, &c. Cot.
12. So “Apples and Cheese scraped with Sugar and Sage” at the end of the Second Course of the Dinner at the Marriage of Roger Rockley & Elizabeth Nevile, daughter of Sir John Nevile, the 14th of January in the 17th year of Henry the VIIIth. (A.D. 1526.) Forme of Cury, p. 174.
13. Wardens are baking pears; costards, apples.
14. I do not suppose that each guest retired to his own bed-room, but to the general withdrawing-room,—possibly used as a general bed-room also, when the Hall had ceased to be it. “The camera usually contained a bed, and the ordinary furniture of a bed-chamber; but it must be remembered that it still answered the purpose of a parlour or sitting-room, the bed being covered over during the daytime with a handsome coverlid, as is still the custom in France & other foreign countries to this day.”—Domestic Architecture, iii. 94-5.
15. See Ioncate in Index, and Russell, l. 82.
16. See Russell, l. 75, and, for wines, l. 117, and notes p. 86-91.
17. There must be some omission here. See Russell, l. 409, and W. de Worde, pp. 161, 163.
18. See Russell, l. 403. Wynkyn de Worde, p. 161, directs the swan to be carved like the goose is, on p. 163.
19. See Russell, l. 427-32; Wynkyn de Worde, p. 162. Rere is cut off.
20. that is, the crane.
21. See Russell, l. 431 and note; W. de Worde, p. 159, l. 5; p. 162.
22. Russell, l. 422; Wynkyn de Worde, p. 162, p. 164, l. 20.
23. Borage is a favourite flavouring for cups and other drinks.
24. Russell, l. 421; Wynkyn de Worde, p. 162.
25. Russell, l. 421; Wynkyn de Worde, p. 162.
26. Fr. aile, wing; but ailer, to give wings unto. Cotgrave.
27. Russell, l. 397, l. 417; W. de Worde, p. 161.
28. Russell, l. 437; W. de Worde, p. 162.
29. Russell, l. 417; Wynkyn de Worde, pp. 161, 164.
30. See the carol from the Porkington MS., “The Boris hede furste,” in Reliq. Ant. vol. ii., and above, p. 264*, and p. 388.
31. hedged or edged.
32. The verse is written as prose.
33. on
34. Here is the Recipe in Household Ordinances, &c., p. 455, for “Viande Riall for xl. Mess:”
Take a galone of vernage, and sethe hit into iij. quartes, and take a pynte therto, and two pounde of sugre, ii lb. of chardekoynes [quinces? ‘Quynce, a frute, pomme de quoyn’, Palsgrave], a pounde of paste-roiale, and let hit sethe untyl a galone of vernage. Take the yolkes of 60 eyren, and bete hom togeder, and drawe hom thurgh a straynour, and in the settynge doune of the fyre putte the ȝolkes therto, and a pynte of water of ewrose, and a quartrone of pouder of gynger, and dresse hit in dysshes plate, and take a barre of golde foyle, and another of sylver foyle, and laye hom on Seint Andrews crosse wyse above the potage; and then take sugre plate or gynger plate, or paste royale, and kutte hom of losenges, and plante hom in the voide places betweene the barres: and serve hit forthe.
35. Leyse Damask. Leland, Coll. iv. p. 226; Leche Damaske, ibid. vi. p. 5; in Forme of Cury, p. 141.
36. ? Fr. seoir, to sit.
37. Written as prose, which it is.
38. ? welkis.
39. Roches or Loches in Egurdouce. H. Ord. p. 469.
40. See the Recipe for it, p. 32, note 2; and in Household Ordinances, p. 450.
41. flaunes ? see p. 173; or chese-freynes for cheese-cakes.
42. Were the cheese and cake meant as a symbol of the Groaning Cake & Cheese (so called in allusion to the mother’s complaints at her delivery) mentioned by Brand, Pop. Ant. ii. 44, ed. 1841, or was the cake the wedding-cake?
43. ? must get a baby: or is ye = I?
44. sheep.