Note E114 — 19.
Reading edition
With reference to the "daintiness" of the Flemings, many of whom were settled on the East coast, compare the following:
"Now bere and bacon bene fro Pruse ibrought Into Flaundres, as loved and fere isoughte; Osmonde [a kind of iron], coppre, bowstaffes, stile [steel], and wex, Peltre-ware [hides], and grey, pych, terre, borde, and flex, And Coleyne threde, fustiane, and canvase, Corde, bokeram; of olde tyme thus it wase. But the Flemmyngis, amonge these thinges dere, In comen lowen [love] beste bacon and bere. Thus arre they hogges; and drynkyn wele ataunt [so much]; Farewel, Flemynge! hay, harys, hay, avaunt!" —Wright's Political Songs, ii. 171.