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, 189 _n_, 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.
Brawn of boar: 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.).
[[entry 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.
[[last selection unidentified]]
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 or bawdie house; _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, 294/113. [[294 for 212]]
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, p. 152-1. [[152-1 for 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.
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.
[Footnote §: _Beccasse_, f. A Woodcock. _Becasse petite_, A Snite
or Snipe.]
[Footnote †: _Chevalier_, A daintie Water-fowle, as big as a
Stock-doue, and of two kinds, the one red, the other blacke. Cot.]
[Footnote *: _Verdrier_, m. The Gold-hammer, Yellow-ha{m}mer,
Yowlring. Cot.]
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 tone
more the tother lesse.” Du Guez, p. 1071.
Capon pie, 31/481.
Capon, roast, how to carve, 16½1.
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]
[Footnote 1: And of the carp, that it is a deyntous fyssche, but
there ben but fewe in Englonde; and therefore I wryte the lasse of
hym. --_Jul. Berners’s Book of St Alban’s._]
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, 209/789-95.
[[209 for 203]]
_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; [[189 for 95]]
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, p. 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.
[Transcriber’s Note:
Reference to “p. 171” could not be identified. Chewets are
mentioned on 161/4, 165/3 and 173/24.]
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; p. 184.
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. 309; 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, ? [[Can it be “cloth”?]]
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, 163/18. [[163 for 165]]
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.
My _complexcyon_ a-cordyth to eny mete,
But rere sopers j refowse, lest j shuld surfett.
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,
“I can be content, if it be out of Lent,
A piece of beef to take, my hunger to aslake.
Both mutton and veal is good for Richard Sheale;
Though I look so grave, I were a very knave
If I would think scorn, either evening or morn,
Being in hunger, of fresh salmon or _congar_.”
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.
[Transcriber’s Note:
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; 165/14. [[165 for 167]]
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; 157/4. [[157 for 159]]
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 (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.
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, p. 235, has
ffatt conyngus and newe,
ffesauntys and corelewe.
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. 309.
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, p. 241-8. [[8 for 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. 309; 49/699; 54/809. [[309 for 146]]
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 ma_n_ to lay gladdly in
the armes & geueth hy_m_ the sede of nature / & the sewet is of
it very good to souple all maner of paynes in the bodi of man.”
--_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.
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.
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 not to long thy
_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. [[83 for 53]]
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, p. 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; 118/284; 210/51; [[118 for 18]]
not to be put in one’s cup, 118/272; [[118 for 18]]
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. 152; [[152 for 110]]
extracts from Laurens Andrewe on, p. 113.
Fisshe, p. 121, p. 123, the flesh or body of fish. [[122 for 123]]
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. 26; p. 157; [[26 for 24]]
how assayed, 203/767-70;
sauces for, p. 39; [[39 for 35]]
sewynge or succession of dishes of, p. 156.
Flesh, a dinner of, p. 40. [[40 for 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, 170/37. [[170 for 210]]
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. 127. [[127 for 133]]
Fritters, 33/501; 34/511; 51/725, 737; 54/810; 157/24-6; 161/32;
163/3. [[161/32, 163/3 for 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, 173/132. [[173 for 213]]
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
(_guingues_[2]), 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.
fryberis (_framboises_), mulberis
[Footnote 2: _Guisnes_: f. A kind of little, sweet, and long
cherries; tearmed so because at first they came out of Guyenne;
also any kind of Cherries. Cotgrave.]
[Footnote 3: _Corneille_, a Cornill berrie; _Cornillier_, The long
cherrie, wild cherrie, or Cornill tree. Cotgrave.]
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, 161/32, fritters; [[161 for 163]]
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; _fýlð_, filth.
Fynne, p. 151, cut up.
Fyr, 184/232, further.
Fyr hous, 194/514, privy?
Fysegge, p. 216, No. x, phiz, face.
Fytt, 213/806, section of a poem. [[213 for 204]]
Fytte, 67/980, while, time.
Fyxfax, to be taken out of the neck, 28/444.
Gabriel, angel, 265/5; 266/7; 148/692. [[148 for 48]]
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. [[entry 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, p. 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, 3_s._ 4_d._; for
a pair of other Gloves, 4_d._”
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; p. 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 their lord while it’s said, 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. 118. [[120 for 118]]
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; 188/8, 29, 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; 204/1.
[[204 for 172]]
Grooms of the Chamber, their duties, p. 191-2.
Groos, 29/461, large.
Grossetest, Bp., his Household Statutes, p. 207-10.
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.
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 all_e_ 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.
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, 173/125. [[173 for 213]]
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. 209, No. xv. [[209 for 215]]
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 handekerch_ers_ silk_ys_.’
P. P. Exp. of Princess Mary, p. 54.
Handle nothing while you are spoken to, 253/83.
Hands and feet, keep ’em quiet, 216/317. [[216 for 186]]
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, 150/29. _See_ Cheese. [[150 for 152]]
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 unwholesome; they eat toads, p. 197-8.
[[197-8 for 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.
Heelfull_e_, 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, 165/20.
‘I wol nat tellen of her straunge sewes,
Ne of her swannes, ne here _heron-sewes_.’
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.
Hith{e}, 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. ?
Hom, 185/273, them.
Homes, servants to visit their own, p. 207, No. xi. [[207 for 217]]
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, 217/16. [[217 for 177]]
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.
[[Citation could not be identified.]]
Houndfisch, 41/584; p. 99; 56/827; 58/844; 167/11, dogfish.
‘He lullith her, he kissith hir ful ofte;
With thikke bristlis on his berd unsofte,
Lik to the skyn of _houndfisch_, scharp as brere,
(For he was schave al newe in his manere,)
He rubbith hir about hir tendre face.’
Chaucer, Marchaundes Tale, v. 2, p. 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. xv., 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.
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, 282/69. [[282 for 279]]
Intrippe, 283/69, interrupt. [[283 for 280]]
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. 171. [[171 for 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, 24½.
Iusselle, 35/520; 54/805; 159/28;
recipe for, p. 145.
Justices, the under, rank of, 70/1018; 72/1061.
Ivory comb, 62/902.
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. 149. [[149 for 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, 17½5.
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.
Knives, for bread, 4/50-2;
for the table, _ib._, l. 63.
Knives, the Butler’s three, p. 152;
the lord’s, 200/675.
Knight, the rank of a, 70/1016; 72/1058.
Knop, 192/453, knob, bunch?
Kommende, 253/104,
this may possibly be like 254/120, commend (_q.v._) a cup to you to
drink;
but 270/71, ‘sey welle’, looks as if praise were meant.
Kymbe, 61/886, comb.
Kyn, 217/13, birth. [[217 for 177]]
Kynraden, 185/279; A.S. _cynnryne_, a family course, parentage.
Labour not after meals, p. 136.
Lace- or buckle-shoes, 62/896.
Ladies, how to behave to, 264/73.
Ladies soon get angry, 165/8.
Lady of low degree has her lord’s estate or rank, 171/19.
Lakke, 269/76, blame; Du. _laecken_, to vituperate, blame, or
reproach. Hexham.
Lamb, 54/807; p. 106;
how to carve, 28/441.
Lamb and ginger sauce, 36/537.
Lambur, 193/480.
? has it anything to do with Fr. _lambrequin_, the point of a
labell, or Labell of a file in Blazon;
_Lambel_, a Labell of three points, or a File with three Labells
pendant (Cot.). Ladies wore and wear ornaments somewhat of this
kind.
Lambskins, p. 131.
Lamprey, 50/724; 58/840; p. 119.
See Henry V.’s commission to _Guillielmus de Nantes de Britanniâ_ to
supply him and his army with Lampreys up to Easter, 1418. From the
Camp at Falaise, Feb. 6. _Rymer_, ix. 544.
Lamprey, names of a, p. 99, bottom.
Lamprey pasty, 167/25.
Lampreys, fresh, pie of, how to serve, 44/630-45; p. 99.
Lamprey, salt, how to carve, 39/566; 167/2.
Lampron, names of a, p. 100.
Lampurnes, 50/719; 55/820; 58/848;
bake, 51/725;
rost, 51/737; 41/588, lamperns.
Landlords, their duty, 242/13.
Lands of a lord, his Chancellor oversees, 196/571.
Lapewynk, 37/542; p. 98, lapwing.
Lappes, 191/452, wraps.
Lapwing, how to carve, 27/417; p. 158, last line.
Lark (the bird), 28/437, 37/542, 49/698, p. 103.
Laske, 7/91, loose (in the bowels).
Last, 15/227, uppermost.
Laugh, don’t, with your mouth full, 179/67; 272/109.
Laugh loudly, don’t, 264/75.
Laugh not, 269/57;
not too often, 183/215.
Laughing always is bad, 212/85.
Lauour, 16/232, washing-basin?.
_Lavacrum_, a lavour, Reliq. Ant. i. 7. _Esguiere_: f. An Ewer,
a Lauer. Cotgrave (see Halliwell).
Law, how kept, 268/53.
Law, men of, their duty, 242/11.
Law, 187/330, low.
Lawes, 183/217, laughs.
Lawnde, 2/16, and note.
Lay the Cloth, how to, 13/187; 154/23.
Leaking of wine pipes, 8/110; 153/10.
Lean not on the table, 255/146.
Learning, its roots bitter, its fruits pleasant, 228/202.
Leche, a, 51/725, 737; 54/810.
Leche dugard, 50/708.
Leche fryture, 52/749.
see _Leschefrites_, _leschefrayes_, in the index to
the _Ménagier de Paris_. [[“see” reference added by editor]]
Leche Lombard, 48/689; 157/2. See ‘Lumber’ in _Nares_. The recipe in
_Forme of Cury_, p. 36, is
Take rawe Pork, and pulle of the skyn, and pyke out þe skyn [&]
synew{is}, and bray the Pork in a mort{er} w{i}t{h} ayreñ rawe;
do þ{er}to sug{ur}, salt, raysoñs, corañce, dat{is} mynced, and
powdo{ur} of Pep{er}, powdo{ur} gylofre, a{nd} do it i{n} a bladder,
and lat it seeþ til it be ynowhȝ. and whan it is ynowh, kerf it,
leshe it in likenesse of a peskodde, and take grete raysoñs and
grynde hem in a mort{er}, drawe hem up wiþ rede wyne, do þ{er}to
mylke of almãnd{is}, colo{ur} it with sañders a{nd} safroñ and do
þ{er}to powdo{ur} of pep{er} a{nd} of gilofre, and boile it. and
whan it is iboiled, take powdo{ur} of canel and gyng{er}, and
te{m}p{er} it up with wyne. and do alle þise thyng{is} togyd{er}.
and loke þat it be rẽnyns, and lat it not seeþ aft{er} that it is
cast togyder, {and} s{er}ue it forth.
Leche, whyte, 157/7.
Leeches, 34/516, strips of meat, &c., dressed in sauce or jelly.
Lees, 26/407; 30/466, strips; 43/610, slices.
Leessez, 33/504; 34/546, strips of meat in sauce.
Lede, 179/78, leaved, left.
Left hand only to touch food, 22/329.
Legate, 70/1013;
the pope’s, l. 1023.
Legh, 191/441, ?_law_, hill, elevation, A.S. _hlæw_;
or _lea_ land, ground.
Legs not to be set astraddle, 20/299.
Legs of great birds, the best bits, 26/403, 410; 27/426; 30/471.
Lele, 196/593; loyally?, justly.
Lemman, 44/635, dear young friend; A.S. _leof_, dear.
Lengthe, 31/488, lengthen.
Lered, 65/956, taught, told.
Lerynge, 56/831, teaching.
Lesche, _v. tr._, p. 151, slice.
Lessynge, 153/17, remedy, cure.
Lesynge, 9/116, curing, restoring to good condition.
Lete, 8/110; p. 86, leak.
Letters, the use of, 228/186.
Leues, 202/741, remains.
Leuys, 203/787, remains.
Lewd livers to dread, 239/933.
-lewe, _see_ drunkelewe.
Liar, don’t be one, 19/292; 183/213.
Liberal, don’t be too, 260/11, p. 263, line L.
[[260 for 258, 263 for 261]]
Lice, 18/280; p. 93.
Lick not the dish, 19/295.
Licoure, 25/382, sauce, dressing.
Lie not, 270/75.
Lie far from your bedfellow, 186/297.
Lies, 9/116, deposit, settlement.
Light payne, 22/339, fine bread for eating.
Lights to be put above the Hall chimney or fire-place, p. 192/467-8.
Line of the blood royal, 171/24.
Linen, body-, to be clean, 60/876.
Linen, used to wipe the nether end, 64/935.
Ling (the fish), 38/555; p. 98; p. 58, note 8; 59/852; 168/6.
Lining of a jacket, the best, p. 131.
Lips; don’t put ’em out as if you’d kiss a horse, 211/73.
Lips, keep ’em clean, 277, 278/34.
Lis, 3/31, relieve. ‘ac _a-lys_ us of yfele,’ but deliver us from
evil, Lord’s Prayer. Rel. Ant.i. 204.
Listen to him who speaks to you, 187/331.
Lite, 56/830, little.
Litere, 191/435, litter, straw or rushes for beds.
Livery of candles, Nov. 1 to Feb. 2, 205/839. Fr. _La Livrée des
Chanoines._ their liverie, or corrodie; their stipend, exhibition,
dailie allowance in victuals or money. Cot.
Loaf, small, to be cut in two, 202/735.
Loaves, _two_ to be brought when bread is wanted, 203/781-4.
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. p. 224-5.
Lokere, 268/60, ? not look, oversee, superintend, and so oppress;
but from Dutch _Loker_, an allurer, or an inticer, _locken_, to
allure or entise, Hexham; _lokken_, to allure, bait. Sewel.
Lombard, leche, 48/689; 157/2.
_See_ Leche Lombard. ‘Frutour _lumbert_ ... Lesshe _lumbert_.’
Oxford dinner, 1452. Reliq. Ant.i. 88.
Look steadily at whoever talks to you, 252/65.
London bushel, 20 loaves out of a, 198/625.
London, Mayor of, 76/1137.
Londoner, an ex-Mayor, 71/1025; 73/1067.
Long hair is unseemely, 213/126.
Long pepper, 153/33.
Longe wortes, 34/518, ? carrots, parsnips, &c.
Lord, a, how dressed, p. 61-2; p. 168;
how undressed and put to bed, p. 65-6; p. 169;
his pew and privy, p. 63;
washing before dinner, 254/129;
after, 257/199. _See_ Hands, &c.
Lord, how to behave before one, 262/3;
how to serve one at table, p. 275-6.
Lord, let yours drink first, 269/69.
Lord or lady when talking, not to be interrupted, 254/106.
Lordes nurrieris, 71/1039; p. 110.
Lords’ beds, 191/443.
Lorely, 181/135, loosely about? A.S. _leóran_, _leósan_, to go forth,
away, or forward, leese, lose.
Lothe (be loth to lend), p. 258, p. 261, line L.
Lothe, 178/48, be disgusted.
Loud talking and laughing to be avoided, 19/290-1.
Loued, 197/600, allowed, given credit for.
Love God and your neighbour, 268/51.
Love, the fruits of, 237/815.
Lowly, be, 229/278.
Lowne, 209/12, lout.
Lowt, 41/579, lie.
Lowte, 262/8, do obeisance, bow.
‘I lowte, I gyue reuerence to one, _Ie me cambre, Ie luy fais la
reuerence._’ Palsgrave, in Way.
A.S. _hlútan_, to bow.
Lumpischli, 276/16, ‘to be lumpish, _botachtigh zijn: botachtigh_,
Rudish, Blockish, or that hath no understanding.’ Hexham.
Lyer, 146/11, ? the cook’s _stock_ for soup; glossed ‘a mixture’ by
Mr Morris in _Liber Cure Cocorum_. And make a _lyoure_ of brede
and blode, and _lye_ hit þerwithe ... _ib._ p. 32, in ‘Gose in
a Hogge pot.’ ?Lat. _liquor_, or Fr. _lier_ to soulder, vnite,
combine. Cot.
Lyft, p. 151, carve.
Lying, against, p. 239, cap. xiii.
Lykorous, 19/292, lip-licking?
Lynse wolse, 132/5, linsey-woolsey.
Lynd, 270/61, Du. _lindt_, soft, milde, or gentle. Hex.
Lyour, 191/446, a band.
Lytulle of worde, 178/34, sparing in speech.
Lyvelode, 74/1087-8, property.
Lyueray, 188/371, pl. lyuerés, 189/395, allowances of food, &c.
See _Livery_.
Lyuerey, p. 216, No. vii. servant’s dress.
Fr. _livrée_ ... One’s cloth, colours, or deuice in colours, worn by
his seruants or others. Cotgrave.
Mackerel, 39/559; p. 40; p. 98; [[41 for 40]]
salt, 57/834;
how to carve, 40/575-6.
Mackeroone, 96/14, a tart.
Magistrates, their duty, 242/18.
Make, 274/143, stroke?
_Malencolicus_, p. 54; p. 104.
Malice, 237/783, 817.
Mallard, 164/28;
how to carve it, 26/402; 158/25.
Mallard, &c., how they get rid of their stink, 165/32-3.
Maluesy, 153/20;
Malvesyn, 9/120; p. 86; p. 90, No. 12; p. 93, No. 6;
the sweet wine Malmsey.
Malyke or Malaga, figs of, 166/18.
Mameny, 49/705; 52/744;
recipe at p. 145.
Manchet, 198/627, fine bread.
Manerable, 75/1113, well-trained.
Manerly, 13/195; 63/923, neatly.
Maners, 197/601, dwelling-houses, mansions, Fr. _manoir_, a Mansion,
Mannor, or Mannor-house. Cot.
Manger, a horse’s, 197/610.
Mangle your food, don’t, 256/176-9.
‘I mangle a thing, I disfygure it with cuttyng of it in peces or
without order. _Je mangonne_ ... and _je mutille_. You have
mangylled this meate horrybly, it is nat to sette afore no
honest men (_nul homme de bien_) nowe.’ Palsgrave.
Manners maketh man, 263/34;
are more requisite than playing, 233/513.
Man’s arms, the use of, 268/38.
Mansuetely, 61/887.
Fr. _mansuet_, gentle, courteous, meeke, mild, humble. Cot.
Mantle, 65/957, cloak or dressing-gown.
Mantle of a whelk, 44/625.
Many words are tedious, 252/75.
Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, bless yourself by, 181/151.
Marquess and Earl are equal, 70/1012; 72/1049.
Marshal of the Hall, p. 69-78, p. 170-2;
his duties, p. 188-90;
arrests rebels, 189/381;
seats men by their ranks, 189/403;
has a short wand, 187/356;
attends to all bed-chambers except the lord’s, 190/427-30.
Marshal or usher comes up to a guest, 178/30.
Marshallynge, 78/1165, arranging of guests.
Martyn, skin or fur of, for garments, p. 139.
Martynet, 157/9; 159/7, the martin (bird).
Mary, the Virgin, 48/691.
Mase, 183/216, makes.
Mass, hear one daily, 266/17.
Mass heard by the nobles every morning, but not by business men,
p. 130.
Master, don’t go before your, 185/281;
don’t waste his goods, 4/47; 219/9.
Master, don’t strive with your, 183/226.
_Iamais ne gaigne qui plaide à son seigneur; ou, qui procede à son
Maistre._ Pro. No man euer throue by suing his Lord or Maister;
(for either God blesses not so vndutifull a strife, or successe
followes not in so vnequal a match.) Cot.
Master of a craft sits above the warden, &c., 78/1159.
Master of the Rolls, rank of, 70/1017; 72/1060.
Masters, duties of, p. 241/6.
Mastic, to be chewed before you rest, p. 139.
Maistirs of the Chauncery, rank of, 71/1027; 73/1068.
Mawes, 178/55, mocks; 187/341.
Mawmeny, recipe for, p. 145.
Maydelyn_e_ gynger, 10/132.
Mayor of Calais, 70/1020; 72/1064.
Mayor of London, 70/1014; 72/1051.
Mays, 194/533, makes.
Mead, p. 107.
Meals, 3 a day to be eaten, p. 135;
only 2 a day, p. 141.
Measure is treasure, 232/477.
Mede, 181/135, reward; _for no kyn mede_, on no account whatever.
Medelus (meddlesome), don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line M.
Medicinable bath, how to make, p. 67-9.
Meek, don’t be too, like a fool, 182/179.
Meene, 261/15, mean, middle course.
_See_ Moderation.
Melle, 268/56, mix, meddle.
Men must work, 268/31.
Mené, smaller, 197/604, lower officers of the household.
Menewes in sewe of porpas, 166/6;
in porpas, 167/35.
Menske, 178/32, civility; 184/234, favour.
From A.S. _mennisc_, human: _cf._ our double sense of ‘humanity.’
H. Coleridge. Cp. also ‘kind’ and ‘gentle.’
Menskely, 185/291, moderately.
Menuce, 55/819;
menuse, 52/747, minnows.
Meny, 270/88, household.
Merchants, duty of, 242/14;
rank of, 71/1037; 73/1071.
Merlynge, 39/558, the fish whiting; 57/834; 166/31.
Mermaid, p. 117.
Merry, be, before bed-time, p. 128.
Merry, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line M.
Mertenet, 37/542; p. 98, the martin; Mertenettes, 49/706.
Mertinet, 28/437; p. 95, martin.
Mess, each, at dinner, to be booked at 6d., 190/413.
Mess, who may sit 2 or 3 at a, 72/1055;
who 3 or 4, l. 1057;
who 4 and 4, l. 1066.
Message, when sent on, how to behave, p. 236, cap. viii.
Mesurabli, p. 261, l. ¶, moderate.
Mesurably, _Mensurate_ (_moderate_). Prompt.
Mesure, 8/107, moderation.
Metely, 61/890, meet, fitting.
Metes, 58/845, fish.
Methe, 58/817, mead.
Metheglin, p. 107.
Metis, 8/95, vegetables; _ib._ l. 101, food.
Michaelmas to Christmas, feasts from, p. 164.
Milk, 8/93.
‘_Vin sur laict, c’est souhait; laict sur vin, c’est venin._’
Prov. Milke before wine, I would twere mine; milke taken after,
is poisons daughter. Cot. u. _Souhait._
Minnows, p. 104; 166/6.
_Misereatur_, to be learnt, 181/154.
Misty, _adj._, 62/911.
Mocker, don’t be a, 268/59.
Moderation, 8/107; 153/5; 232/477.
_See_ Meene.
Cp. p. 104 of the _Old English Homilies_, ed. Morris, 1868.
‘Brutes eat as soon as they get it, but the wise man shall have
times set apart for his meals, and then in reason keep to his
regimen.’
Mood, temper, passion.
Morning prayer, p. 225.
Morter, 66/968, bed-candle; 160/32; 193/503, a kind of candle used as
a night-light. [[160 for 169]]
Morter, _a Mortarium_, a light or taper set in churches, to burn
possibly over the graves or shrines of the dead. _Cowel._ Qu. if
not a cake of wax used for that purpose. Note in Brit. Mus. copy
of Hawkins’s Hist. of Music, ii. 294.
Mortrowes, 35/520; 54/805; 56/827.
Mortrus, 164/31.
Motes, 16/236; 18/272, bits of dust, &c.
Moths in clothes, p. 115, last line.
Mought, flesche-, 18/280, flesh-moth, louse. ‘Mowȝte, clothe wyrme
(mouhe, mow, mowghe), _Tinea_; Mought that eateth clothes,
_uers de drap_.’ Palsgrave; A.S. _moððe_. Prompt.
Moughtes, 64/945; p. 108, moths.
Mouth, don’t eat on both sides of, 179/65.
Mouth, drink not with a full, 255/149;
nor speak, 255/152.
Mouth, wipe it before drinking, 255/155.
Mowes (faces), don’t make, 277, 278/29.
Fr. ‘Monnoye de Singe. _Moes_, mumps, mouthes; also, friskes, leaps,
gambolls.... Mopping, mumping, _mowing_; also friskes, gambolls,
tumbling tricks.’ Cotgrave.
Mowynge, 278/29; 19/291; making faces in derision, grimacing; ‘mowe
or skorne,’ _vangia vel valgia_. Pr. Parv.
Mullet, 58/841, 850; 166/13.
Mulus, a sea-fish, p. 119.
Muscadelle, 9/118; p. 89, No. 6; 153/21, a sweet wine.
_Musclade_ is Span. _mezclada_, mixture. Ital. _mescolanza_ is used,
in Genoa at least, for a fry of small fish. --H. H. Gibbs.
Minsheu has _mézela_, _méscla_ or _mezcladura_, a medlie,
mingling. [[entry added by editor]]
Musclade of almonds, 55/821;
in wortes, 55/821; 167/34;
of minnows, 50/719.
Muscles (fish), 55/819; p. 107; p. 116.
Musculade, 166/6; 167/34.
Musculus, the cocke of balena, p. 119.
Mustard, 48/686; p. 100; 54/796; 58/843; 159/33.
Mustard and sugar, the sauce for pheasants, &c., 36/538.
Mustard for brawn, &c., 36/533;
with fish, 59/853;
with salt fish, 38/557; 57/832.
Mustela, the see-wesyll, p. 119.
Mutton, 48/688; p. 105.
‘The moton boyled is of nature and complexion sanguyne, the whiche,
to my jugement, is holsome for your grace.’ _Du Guez_, p. 1071.
Mutton, salt, to be eaten with mustard, 36/533;
stewed, 54/798.
Mutton, loin of, how to carve, 25/393.
Mylet, 51/735, mullet.
Myllewelle, the fish, 38/555; 50/723.
Myñ, 199/666, less.
Mynce, p. 151, carve.
Mynse, 26/400, mince.
Mysloset, 183/208, ? mispraised or misgoing, misleading.
Mystere, 199/639, craft, service.
Nails to be clean, 265/10; 277-8/22; 18/270;
not to be picked at meals, 255/150;
to be kept from blackness, 277-8/49.
Nape in the neck, the cony’s to be cut out, 29/455.
Nape, 199/659, tablecloth.
Naperé, 199/642, napry, table-cloths and linen; /656, table-cloth.
Napery, 4/61.
Nature, all soups not made by, are bad, 35/523.
Neckweed, p. 124, a hempen halter.