Part 49 (1/2)
The Operacion.
The Lam{m}e that soucketh his dam{m}e hath his flesshe very slymie, & nat lowable / and it will nat be disgested, princ.i.p.ally of them that haue cold stomakes. la{m}mes of a yere olde be better & lighter to disgest / & they make G.o.de blode / and specyally they be G.o.de for theym that be hote & drye of complexcyon & dwell in a hote & drye lande / la{m}mes flesshe is very G.o.de for one that is hole & l.u.s.ti, but for theim {tha}t be seke it is very euyll: though it lightely disgest and descende out of the man / yet it is euyll for other partes of the body, for it maketh slimy humours. sign. b. i.
l. 808, _Cony._ ”The coney is a lytel beste dwellynge in an hole of the erthe / & th.o.r.e as he vseth he encreaseth very moche, and therfore he is profitable for man, for he casteth oftentymes in the yere ... Ysaac sayth. That conys flesshe hath properli {th}e vertue to strengen {th}e mawe and to dissolue the bely / and it ca.s.seth moche vryne.” _The n.o.ble Lyfe_, sign. e. i.
l. 811. _Mead_ or _Meath_, a drink made of Ginger, Sugar, Honey and Spring water boiled together. R. Holme.
_Metheglin_, a drink made of all sorts of wholesome Herbs boiled and strained with Honey and Water, and set to work with Bearm, as Ale or Beer. _R. Holme._ Dan. _miod._
l. 811. _Braggot._ This drinke is of a most hot nature, as being compos'd of Spices, and if it once scale the sconce, and enter within the circ.u.mclusion of the _Perricranion_, it doth much accelerate nature, by whose forcible atraction and operation, the drinker (by way of distribution) is easily enabled to afford blowcs to his brother. In Taylor. _Drink & Welcome_, 1637, A 3, back.
l. 812. Mussels (_Mityli_, _Chamae_) were never in credit, but amongst the poorer sort, till lately the lilly-white Mussel was found out about Romers-wall, as we sail betwixt Flus.h.i.+ng and Bergen-up-Zon, where indeed in the heat of Sommer they are commonly and much eaten without any offence to the head, liver, or stomach: yea my self (whom once twenty Mussels had almost poisoned at Cambridg, and who have seen sharp, filthy, and cruel diseases follow the eating of English Mussels) did fill my self with those Mussels of the Low Country, being never a whit distempered with my bold adventure. _m.u.f.fett_, p. 159.
l. 824, _Samon._
Also sumtyme where samons vsen for to haunte, Lampreys, luces, or pykkes plesaunte, wenyth the fyscher suche fysche to fynde.
_Piers of Fullham_, ll. 11-13.
l. 835, 4 [Footnote 235 in this e-text] _Torrentyne._ The pa.s.sage before that quoted from Aldrovandi, de Piscibus, p. 585, in the note, is, ”Trutta, siue ut Platina scribit Truta, siue Trotta Italicu{m} nome{n} est, a Gallis, quibus Troutte vel potius Truette, vel ab Anglis quib{us} a Trute, vel Trovvt appella{n}t, acceptum. Rhaeti qui Italica lingua corrupta vtuntur, Criues vocant, teste Gesnero.” The special fish from the Tarentine gulf is the ”Tarentella, Piscis genus. Tract. MS. de Pisc.
cap. 26 ex Cod. reg. 6838. C.: _Magnus thunnus, is scilicet qui a nostris_ Ton _vocatur ... dicitur Italis Tarentella, a_ Tarentino, _unde advehitur, sinu_.” Ducange, ed. 1846.
l. 845. _Hake. Merlucius_ (or _Gadus_) _vulgaris_ Y. ii. 258, 'the Seapike ... It is a coa.r.s.e fish, not admitted to the tables of the wealthy; but large quant.i.ties are anuually preserved both by salting and drying, part of which is exported to Spain.' 'Fish, samon, _hake_, herynge' are some of the commoditees of Irelonde mentioned in the _Libelle_ (A.D. 1436), p. 186.
l. 839, _reffett._ In the following extract _refete_ has the _Promptorium_ meaning:
eteth of the [full grown] fysche, and be not so lykerous, Let the yong leve that woll be so plenteous; ffor though the bottomles belyes be not ffyllyd with such _refete_, Yet the saver of sauze may make yt good mete.
_Piers of Fullham_, ll. 80-3, _E. Pop. P._, v. 2, p 5.
l. 842. _breme._
... y schall none pondes with pykes store, _Breme_, perche, ne with tenche none the more.--_Ibid._ ll. 51-2.
l. 843, _flowndurs._
But now men on deyntees so hem delyte, To fede hem vpon the fysches lyte, As _flowndres_, perches, and such pykyng ware; Thes can no man gladly now-a-day spare To suffyr them wex vnto resonable age.--_Ibid._ ll. 74-8.
l. 867. _Hose._ For eight pair of _hosen_ of cloth of divers colours, at xiij s. iiij d. the pair; and for four pair ”of sokks of fustian” at iij d. the pair (p. 118) ... for making and lyning of vj pair of _hosen_ of puke lyned with cloth of the goodes of the saide Richard, for lynyng of every pair iij s. iiij d. xx s. Wardrobe Accounts of Edw. IV. (ed.
Nicolas) p. 120.
l. 879. Combing the head was specially enjoined by the doctors. See A. Borde, Vaughan, &c., below.
l. 915. _Fustian._ March, 1503, 'for v yerdes _fustyan_ for a cote at vij d. the yerd ij s. xj d.' Nicolas's Elizabeth of York, p. 105. See A. Borde, below. 'Coleyne threde, _fustiane_, and canvase' are among the 'commodites ... fro Pruse ibroughte into Flaundres,' according to the _Libelle_, p. 171,
But tha Flemmyngis amonge these thinges dere In comen lowen beste bacon and bere: Thus arn thy hogges, and drynkye wele staunt; Fare wele Flemynge, hay, horys, hay, avaunt.
(See _n._ p. 131, below.)
A. Borde, in his _Introduction_, makes one of the Januayes (Genoese) say,