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A13502 Taylors feast contayning twenty-seaven dishes of meate, without bread, drinke, meate, fruite, flesh, fish, sawce, sallats, or sweet-meats, only a good stomacke, &c. Being full of variety and witty mirth. By John Taylor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1638 (1638) STC 23798; ESTC S111405 26,775 108

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flame of a Candle When Bawdy-boy had landed the Gentleman and tooke his fare which was sixe shillings hee told his fellow what hee had receiv'd and withall the Tide being an houre flood and no passengers left hee thought it best to swim up emptie-boated with the streame from Gravesend to Greenewich rather than to stay there and spend their money and that hee doubted not but to make some profitable purchase on the river before he gat home In which resolve they put off their Boate and after one houres Rowing betweene Greene-hithe and Purfleete they overtooke an Hoy or great Boate loaden with as good Kentish faggots as Christendome could yeeld the Hoy-man driving and whistling up in the calme streame and the light Moone-shine to whom Bawdy-boy call'd and ask'd him if hee would sell him one Hundred of Faggots The Hoy-man answer'd saying they are not mine to sell I am but hired to bring them to London for a Woodmonger that dwells there My Friend quoth Bawdy-boy what though they are none of thine to sell yet thou may'st let me have one Hundred of them and make thy Master beleeve they were mis-told to thee or else thou may'st mis-tell one Hundred in the delivery of them 't is twenty to one they will never bee mist amongst so many This gentle and grave counsell began to worke upon the tender conscience of the Faggot-man insomuch that the bargaine was strooke that for Five Shillings Bawdy-boy should have one Hundred of Faggots In briefe the Faggots were taken into the Wherrie and the Faggot-seller expected Five shillings to whom Bawdy-boy said Friend I doe see a Faggot with a crooked stick in it which sticke will be to me of more worth than three Faggots for a use that I would put it to I pray thee let me have it and I wil give thee one of my faggots backe againe for it the other reply'd that he would doe him that kindnesse though it were troublesome to him to remove a dozen or twenty Faggots that lay about it So whilst the fellow was busie to get the crooked-stickefaggot Bawdy-boy thrust himselfe off with his Boate and one Hundred of Faggots At the last the Hoy-man came to the Hoyes side and perceiving his Merchant to be gone hee called to him saying Hoe friend com● hither here is the Faggot with the crooked sticke To whom Bawdy-boy reply'd saying it is no matter I have better bethought my selfe I will make a shift without it the other call'd againe and said thou hast nor paid me for my Faggots I know it well quoth the other nor will I pay thee any thing thou art a Theefe and a notable Rogue and I will pay thy Master who is an honest Gentleman and hee shall know what a Rogue you are and so I leave you Courteous Reader I would intreate you to read this pleasant discourse of One hundred of Faggots before that of Great and small Oysters for so it should be placed Thus Gentlemen you have seene your Cheere and you know you are welcome I am perswaded that you could not have had so good diet as is before related at any six-penny Ordinary though it were in the North where Victuals are cheapest Heere hath beene variety without Ebriety I promis'd you at first that I would not take your stomacks from you and that you should goe away as sober as you came wherein I hope I have kept my word and so you are welcome Gentlemen Onely here is a Bill of Fare to satisfie your mindes or to bee a President fo you when you have occasion to make a Feast and how to provide for every mans Palate A Bill of Fare invented by the choisest Pallats of our time both for Worth and Wit wherein are appointed such Rare and Admirable Dishes as are not to bee had every where and may be expected dayly at the Five pound Ordinary as it came to my hands I give it you freely Gentlemen with some Addition of Dishes of mine owne FOure Phantasmaes two boil'd and two roasted One Dish of Cadulsets A stew'd Torpedo One Dish of Andovians One Phoenix in white Broath One fore-legge of a Greene Dragon bak'd Foure Pellican Chickens Two Dottrells broyl'd A Dish of Elephants Pettitoes A Rhinorsceros boyld in Allecant A Calves Head roast with a Pudding in the belly A sowst Owle A Dish of Irish Harts Horne boil'd into Jelly with a golden Horse-shooe dissolv'd in it One Lobster fry'd in steaks Nine Soales of a Goose. Three Ells of a Jackanapes taile Two Cockatrices Two dryed Sallamanders One boild Ele-pie A Dish of Quishquillions A Dish of Modicums boild with Bonum A Dish of Bounties with Sorrellsoppes A Gull pickled A Tantablin with an Onion A Sallet of Goose-grease and Chickweed-fruite A West-India Cheese One Hundred of CoakerNuts Fifty Pine-apples Twelve Palmitaes FINIS
that they will not handle a knife that hath cut it some will sweat at the sight of a messe of Musrard Mr. Anthony Munday sometimes a Writer to the City of London would run from the Table at the sight of a fore-quarter of Lambe roasted And a reverend grave Judge of this Kingdome did abhorre a Ducke as it had bin a Divell Another Gentleman did love Salt but by no meanes could indure to see it about the sides of a dish but would swound at the sight of it A Schoole-master in this Citty cannot indure to smell Apples Amongst all these I my selfe did know one Thomas Vincent that was a Book-keeper or prompter at the Globe play-house neere the Banck-end in Maid-lane As also I did know Iohn Singer who playd the Clownes part at the Fortune-play-house in Golding-Lane these two men had such strange and different humours that Vincent could not endure the sight or scent of a hot Loyne of Veale and Singer did abhorre the smell of Aquavitae But it hapned that both these were invited to Dinner by a Widdow that did not well know their dyets and as they sate at the Boord a hot Loyne of Veale was set before Vincent who presently began to change colour and looke pale and in a trembling manner hee drop'd in a swowne under the Table the Widdow being in a great amazement made haste for an Aquavitae bottle to revive him which was no sooner opened but the very scent sent Singer after Vincent in the like foolish traunce But when the Veale and Aqua vitae were taken away after a little time the men recover'd Vincent went into another Roome and dranke and Singer call'd for the Veale and din'd well with it 18. A Custard A Prating fellow that dwelt in a Citty that had in former times beene governe by Bayliffes and was newly made a Majoralty did brag that their first Majors feast was most sumptuous and in price and value beyond the Lord Majors of York or London for besides other Dishes and provision there was sent in by the Gentlemen of the Countrey Fourteene brace of Bucks I demanded of him at what time of the Yeere their Major was chosen He answer'd me that about the Twentieth of October hee tokee his Oath and kept his Feast I reply'd that I thought hee was mistaken for the Season for Buckes doth not hold or continue till the Moneth of October then hee said that if they were not Bucks they were Does To which I seemed to grant but withall I told him that if they had beene Bucks all had beene too short of our London Feast for wee were able on that day to drowne such a towne as theirs with sixteene Tunne of Custard 19. A Sturgeon like an old Colt THere is a Market-town which I will not name in Print in the roade betwixt London and Yorke which hath a pretty River or Brooke rnnnes by it up which Brooke it did chance that a Sturgeon did swim or shoote somewhat neere the Towne the which a Gentleman that dwelt neere espied and caused a small Rope to bee put through the gills of the Fish and fastened it to a stumpe of a Willow intending to take it as a wafte or stray that fell into the limits of his owne Bounds or Royalty but as hee was gone to make provision for the carriage of it and to call his servants for that purpose the newes of the Sturgeon was brought to the Towne and the Recorder told the Major that it was taken in their Liberty and that they were better to spend or give an Hundred pound than to lose or hazard the losse of so much ground as the Sturgeon was within their Liberty and Lordship and therfore it were their best course to goe speedily and fetch it away into the Towne perforce This counsell was lik'd and approv'd and so with one consent the Major with his Brethren the Recorder and Officers with the whole Drove or Heard of the Townsmen went out to bring in the Sturgeon And as they went Master Major said that he had eaten part of such a Fish many times but in all his life hee had never seene a whole Sturgeon and therfore he did not know of what shape or proportion it was to whom one of the Aldermen said Sir in my youth I did use to goe to Sea and then I did now and then see one and I can compare or liken him to nothing more than to an old ragged Colt 't is like enough to bee so quoth the Major and for any thing I know he may be like a Goose a Cocke or a Bull Thus as they walk'd and talk'd many words to small purpose they espy'd a fellow leading a young Colt with aslip from the Brooke thwart over the field which caused one of the Aldermen to say to the Major Sir yonder man be like hath had some warning of our comming and you may see he is about to prevent us for he is leading away the Sturgeon from us with that the Major called aloud saying Hallow thou fellow I charge and command thee that thou bring hither our Sturgeon before me The fellow wondring answer'd what zay Zur Marry I say Sir I charge thee bring hither our Sturgeon What doe you meane my Colt said hee Sirrah sirrah said the Major doe not you offer to put your knavish Colts tricks upon me for if you doe I 'le lay you by the Heeles Do'st thou thinke that I am such an Asse that I doe not know a Colt from a Sturgeon Yfaith quoth the fellow you are a merry Gentleman and with that hee led the Colt away Then the Major commanded men to pursue him and take away the Sturgeon Well the fellow ran the Townsmen ran the Colt slip'd his Halter and was encompast round and hunting him into the Towne was met by men women and children as a rare and admirable sight and had like to have beene kill'd and cut out into Jolles and Rands and made up into Keggs in pickle but that a knowing understanding Shooe-maker most luckily prevented it In the meane time the Gentleman that first found the Sturgeon caused it to be taken up out of the Brooke and carried Home unto his House and there it was drest as was fitting The Major perceiving his errour let the man have his Colt againe with a full determination that at the common charge with the Towne-purse to trie an Action with the Gentleman for the Sturgeon 20. A fresh Salmon THe good old and truely right Honourable Charles Earle of Nottingham Lord High Admirall of England whose renowned memory shall never bee forgotten untill his bounteous Houskeeping bee generally imitated He being at his House at Chelsey and looking upon certaine Fishermen that were fishing in the Thames with their SalmonNet his Lordship call'd to them and said My friends if you take a Salmon and bring him a shoare living that I may see it move and live I will give you your price for it The Fisherman
is not a little or small Sack that can hold them yet for all that they may hold or contayne a little Sacke when they have it A roaring Gallant having dranke so much Sacke that his head and belly were full and empty of Ebriety and Sobriety and his purse and brayne discharg'd of Wit and Money was inforced to cast up his Sacke with more haste than he receiv'd it which being done and his stomacke somewhat eas'd hee threw the Pottle-pot downe the staires saying Drawers you Rogues bring more Sacke for all this is gone A Spitch-cocke or roasted Eele turn'd to a Bull. THere was a great Dispute held amongst good fellows once of what thing in the world would live longest after exquisite and extreame Torments the Judgement was generall that it was an Eele for first hee would live after his head was off after he was flay'd after hee had his entrailes and heart taken out after he was cut in peeces yet every peece would have life in it after it was laid on the Gridyron Then one of the company said I doe approove of your opinions for an Eele doth live longer after hee is dead than any other thing that everliv'd on the earth 14. A couple of fat Ducks roasted NEere the Citty of Gaunt in Flanders in a small Village there was lately a Priest that preached or rayled most bitterly against the Protestants calling them Reprobates Cast-awayes Hugonats and Hereticks good for nothing but to feed fire flame and faggots for which constant way of invective talking the Priest was mightily followed by abundance of ignorant people the most part women as the like troupes doe into many places haunt Schismaticall Seperatists that willingly would dislocate the Conformity and Unity of the Church Amongst the rest of this Priests Auditorie there was one man and his wife that seldome failed to heare him but it hapned that the Woman was to give her mayd-servant leave to goe to a Wedding at Gaunt where she had a kinswoman to bee married so that her Mistris was forc'd to stay at home that Sunday and dresse Dinner for her Husband and family The Sermon being done the Goodman came home and told his Wife that their Priest had made an extraordinary piece of worke that the like was never spoken and that hee thought all the Protestants were knock'd downe with his words and that he was griev'd at the heart shee was not at Church to heare him At which report the woman was so full of griefe for her being absent from so rare a matter that shee could eate no meate to Dinner but fed upon sorrow her Husband began to comfort her and told her that if shee would bee merry and eate her meate hee would procure the Priest to come to their house on the Wednesday following and there in their Parlour he should repeate the same Sermon to them privately The woman was well contented with the motion and said that shee would bestow a couple of as good Ducks roafted on him as ever hee eate in his life Now you must understand that the Woman was hard and miserable and did seldome use to feede her Husband or any other with Ducks and the Priest on the other side did love a Ducke so well that hee would run over the Parish after them Well the Wednesday was come the Priest came the Ducks were on the Spit roasted the Sermon was repeated and Dinner was expected The Woman arising from her seate made a low courtesie to the Priest saying Sir I will goe into the Kitchin and make haste with your meate the while I will leave you with my Husband to discourse in the Parlour So the good wife went to her Maid saying In faith Wench our Priest hath made a good Declaration but I would my Ducks were alive againe for it grieves me to remember how the pretty fooles would quacke quacke about the backsides but troubles my mind more to thinke how like Wolves the Priest and thy Master will devoure them The Maid answer'd her Dame that if she pleased that we two here will eate up the Ducks in the Kitchin the whilst the Priest and hee are prating in the Parlour The woman reply'd that she could finde in her heart to doe it but shee could not answer the matter with credit Then said the Maide Dame let us eate the Ducks and I will lay my Quarters wages against them that wee will come off with fame and credit The match was agreed upon the Ducks were taken from the Spit and betwixt them one was eaten and the other dismember'd and spoil'd What must be done now said the Dame I pray you quoth the Maid to lay the cloath with Bread and Salt and Trenchers which she did her Husband bidding her make haste with Dinner then shee came to her Maid againe and asked what must further be done Then said the Maid you see our Knives are foule and blunt I pray you whifper our Master in the eare and tell him you will turne the grindstone whilst hee doth sharpen them Then the woman did as her Maid bid her and as her husband and shee were grinding in the back-side the Maid went into the Parlour to the Priest and told him that he was in great and suddaine danger for her Master and Dame were much defam'd by reason of too much familiarity which was suspected betweene her Dame and his good father-hood and therefore they had sent for him with a trick to abuse him to make him relate a Sermon which they regard not and as for the Ducks which he expected shee swore truely there was not a Ducke in the house The maine plot was that they did purpose to gueld him and therefore were sharpning their Knives which if hee pleas'd but to looke out at the Hall-window he might plainely see The Priest was all amazed at this newes and looking as the Maid said hee spied the man and his wise grinding and turning at which sight he took his heeles and ran away as if hee had beene two stone lighter than hee was Then the Maid went to her Master and said that shee thought the Priest was mad or the Devill was in him for he came suddainly into the Kitchin and was run away with both the Ducks Whereat the hungry man was angry and in haste with one of the naked Knives in his hand he ran after the Priest so they both ran the one for feare and the other for hunger the man calling to the Priest bad him for shame not to carry them both away but to let his wife have one of them the Priest made answer as he ran that thy wife and thee are a couple of Rogues and they should both bee hang'd before they had one of them and that he would keepe them both whilst he had them Thus the Sermon was said the Priest was affraid his hunger unstay'd the Jest well laid the Wages paid Gramercy Maid 15. A cup of small Beere MY Reader perhaps may bee thirsty or
dry with relating this long Tale of the Ducks therefore it cannot be amisse to give him a Bowle of small Beere for a cooler A Gentleman that dwelt tenne miles from London sent his Footman in all haste to the Citty to tell a Merchant welcome newes of a rich Unkle of his lately dead that had left him somewhat to make him merry for his Death with an out-side mourning in Blacke and an in-side laughing with Sacke The Foot-man having his Message with a Letter made as much speed as hee could in hope of Reward for his good tidings so that he seem'd by his pace to have wings on his heeles and by the fogge or sweate hee was in you would have suppos'd him to have beene bloated or stewed body and bones Being come to the Merchant hee deliver'd the Letter which after he had halfe read the Contents contented him so that hee call'd his Maid commanding her to fill a Bowle of Beere and give it to the Foot-man who stood dropping with sweate as if he had newly beene duck'd but hee setting it to his mouth swallowed it with extreame eagernesse and finding by the taste that it was a poore mortified Liquor having no vivacity left in it but meerely cold comfortlesse and at the best a poore decayed single-soal'd drinke although it were dead and a deceased remnant of humidious Aquacity nay though it had not upou the death or departure from its Cinnicall or Diogenicall habitation given so much as a good rellish a smacke or a taste to the poore Foot-man that ever any Malt had beene drown'd drench'd or imbrew'd into it yet hee as a man of a milde temper amidst his heate unwilling to speake ill of the dead did plainely tell the Merchant thus Sir I doe thinke that your Beere hath ran as fast as I have ran and faster Why sayst thou so quoth the Merchant because said the other it sweates more then I do it cannot be said the Marchant the foote-man replied that if it did not sweate he was much deceived for hee was sure it was in a cold sweate or all of a water Another piece of Beefe and then how the Beefe was purchased c. THough Beefe be accounted a grosse dish at most of our late Sardanapolitan feasts and Banquests yet I doubt not but many of my Guests or Readers wil be well pleased to eat Beefe when they have it but I being reasonably well stored will tell them how I came by it and then as they like it let them fall too and welcome Now how the Beefe was purchased A Brace or couple of monilesse Gallants who had met with some believing or credulous Mercer and Taylor and sworne and lied themselves into compleate suites of praeter-plu-perfect-plush or well deserving beaten Uelvet these two had long time shared equall fortunes and did purpose to live and dye in a brotherly conjunction and indeed it was pitty to part them It befel that upon an Ash-wensday they chanced to read a Proclamation for the strict observing and keeping of Lent at which they were both exceedingly grieved so that the one said to the other I cannot live according as is here commanded for I will eate no fish and therefore must have flesh The other then replied I I thinke neither of us have friends money or credit to purchase flesh or fish but if thou canst borrow a Porters habite as a Frock Cap Basket Rope or Halter stockins shooes and the like then I will assure thee I will load thy backe with good Beefe my wit shall get it and thy backe shall beare it and our old Hostesse where we lodge will powder it and wee all will bee merry and eate it To be short the out-side of a Porter was borrowed and on the Thursday after Ash-wednesday to the Butchers went this Gentleman-porter and his consort the Kater Now there was an old Doctor of Physicke which for some Reasons shall not be named Hee dwelt in London of good repute and great estate but so lame of the Gout that he seldome went out of his House but sate in a Chaire and gave his opinion of Urins and Diseases and Directions and Bills to Patients and Apothecaries This Doctor was the stake or ayme that the Master Cheater did purpose to make the Buckler for his knavery For comming to a Butcher hee bargained with him at the best rate for so many Stone of the chiefest Beefe with a legge and shoulder of Mutton and loyne of Veale which came to fifty shillings and odde money which being cut in peeces and joynted and laid in the Basket he asked the Butcher if hee knew such a Doctor of Physicke as afore-said the Butcher said that he knew him well that hee was an honest Gentleman and that one of his men did buy meate often of him at his shop the Cheater reply'd that hee was also one of the Doctors men and that hee that was wont to buy meat of him was his Fellow but he was gone into the Countrey about some occasions and that himselfe for his part had laid out all his money in the Citty uppon other things for his Master therefore hee intreated the Butcher to let one of his servants to goe home with him and take his due for his meate The Butcher said it was a busie time and had my customers to serve yet hee commanded one of his men calling him Richard to goe with the Gentleman to bring 52. shillings and 10. pence and to make haste backe againe Away went the Butcher the Porter and the Gentleman who asked the Butcher his name and of what Country he was he said his name was Richard Snelling of such a Parish in Northamptonshire the Cheater straite began to call Richard Cousin and told him that himselfe was a Snelling by the Mothers side and that hee would doe more for him than hee was aware of When they came into a Lane neere London wall called PhilipLane where the old Doctor dwelt the Cheater said Richard I will goe before and have the gate or doore open because the Porter is loaden so running apace to the gate hee knock'd which straite a Maide opened to whom he said yonder comes a Butcher with a Porter I pray you let them rest here in the Hall whilst I doe speake a word with your Master in the Parlour as hee requested it was done and the Cheater went to the Doctor and told him that hee was a Gentleman famous for Learning and Experience and that though hee were lame in his legges yet hee was sound in his Art and profession which had moved him to bring to him a Patient his Kinsman who was of Gentle Birth but in his wild youth ran from his Parents and bound himselfe Apprentise to a Butcher and now within two dayes he was halfe franticke and talk'd of nothing but money which he thought was some distemperature in the Brayne through want of sleepe which surely Sir said he to the Doctor I am perswaded that you can
effect in one night and you shall have ten pound for the Cure He is very milde and tractable his fault is onely talking of Money and he staies without in your Hal. I pray you call him in said the Doctor which the Cheater did saying Richard goe into the Parlour my Master will pay you so in went the Butcher to the Physitian the whilst the two Cheaters went away with the meate Then Richard entred with his Cap off and made many scraping legges to the Doctor who bade him put on his Cap and take a stoole and sit downe by him but Richard said hee had more manners than so desiring his Worship to helpe him to his money Alas good fellow sayd the Doctor I would not have thee to set thy heart upon mony for they that doe love money are bewitch'd with this World and have little thought or hope of a better that money was like fire and water very necessary for the use of Man so long as they are servants and kept under but where they get the maistry they will doe a man a world of mischiefe Richard reply'd Sir I care not for money but I must have money of you for my Master Beefe to whom the Doctor said Richard thou art farre gone how long hast thou beene in this case to talke thus idly of Money I pray thee canst thou say thy prayers or Creed Then straite the Butcher began to waxe hot and said that he was not farre gone nor would goe without his Money and for the case hee was in it is the same hee will be in till he have his Money And as for prayers hee came not thither to pray and therefore I pray Sir to leave jesting and give me my Money for my Master and Mistris are hastie folkes and will bee very angry with me for my long stay and therefore give me my money The Doctor perceiving that he could not put Richard out of talking of Money did suppose he was stark mad and therefore he quickly called for his men William and Thomas and commanded them to take Richard and put him into a close Chamber and to draw curtaines and shut up the windows whereby hee might be kept darke for the better settling of his braines saying that Richard came of good friends and that a worthy Gentleman his Unkle was with him but now and further that hee had a good hope to cure him in short time The Serving-men as their Master bad them tooke hold of Richard who would not goe with them then they began to pull hale and tugge him so that Richard in anger asked if they would make him mad Then they fell by the ears and cuffe and buffetted till they were bloody-nos'd and their Bands torne the Doctor still crying to his men Away with him I will tame him before I have done that he shall set his minde no more upon Money Richard being weake was dragg'd perforce to the Chamber when presently the Butcher Richards Master came to the doore and knock'd demanding whether hee had not a servant in the House one of the men said there was a young fellow in the House that was stark mad and that they would hhe had beene hang'd before they saw him hee had beaten and torne them so what is he mad quoth the Butcher yes said the other hee talkes of Money and would have it of my Master but feare not honest man my Master will cure him What is my man mad said the Butcher yea quot the other hee would have Money I told you Money why should hee not have Money said the Butcher He must and shall have Money and so will I Are you as mad as your man said the Serving-man then we must be troubled to have another darke Chamber for you too and growing to high words one with another at last the Butchers wife came flinging her Armes as if she had beene swimming using the volubility of her Tongue to a shrill and lofty straine a principall vertue in too many women that the House rang with the clamour as if it had beene a Cock-pit asking her Husband why hee staid there and where the idle rogue her man was that hee brought not away the Money The old lame Doctor hearing such a noise asked one of his servants what the matter was who told him that the Butcher and his wife both were come for money Hoy-day said the Doctor I thinke all the World is made for Money goe and tell the Butcher and his Wife that I have not darke roomes enow in my House for them so after a little conference together the Doctors maid affirm'd that a Porter rested his meate in their Hall whilst the other Gentleman spake with him in the Parlour and that they both went away when the Butchers man went in thus the truth was cleared the Cheaters were victual'd the Doctor was gull'd the Butcher was couzned and Richard was released 16. Twelve Woodcockes in a Dish ABout sixe or seaven new molded Gallants whose outsides were silke and slashes and their insides jeeres and flashes were invited to a worthy Cittizens House to dinner where amongst a great deale of other good cheare there was brought to the Board a Jury of Woodcockes in one Dish laid Head to Head in the center of the platter as fantastick Travailers and their Wives doe lie feete to feet in the great Bed of Ware sometimes by dozens These Guests beeing loath to conceale their small Tallents of wit had an especiall Art to breake ten good jeasts of other mens before they were able to make one good one of their own they began to jybe at the Woodcockes and said they were a Jury Empanell'd another sayd it was hard to judge whether they were a petty or a Grand-Jury a third said that he thought that those twelve were an Embleme of the twelve Companies The Citizen being a Gentleman of place and eminence not thinking their eering worthy of his anger would not set his gravity against their foppery yet thus mildly he answered them You are welcome Gentlemen and I do wish that my entertainment were better for you I see there is one dish that distastes you but it shall be taken away for I do assure you that I never had so many Woodcockes at my Table at one time in all my life but I thinke the fault is not in my Cater for here are at least halfe a dozen more then he provided So hee commaunded one that waited on to take away the roasted Woodcockes from the rest 17. A Loyne of Veale ALthough the bodies of men are all or the greatest number of one forme or a like frame all compacted and composed of the foure Elements and Humors yet those Elementary Humours are so variously mixed in men that it makes them different in their Appetites Affections Inclinations Constitutions and Actions For example some wil gape and make water at the sight of a hot roasted pigge some wil run from an Eele some dce hate Cheese so