and séeth them asunder Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first drie in the second Best in cold weather for grosse and homely feeders Fabae Storie for Table-talke TOng-tying Pytagor biddeth vs tie vp our chaps also from eating of Beanes A Fabis abstineto Wherein Iudicious Antiquaries say there is much mysterie and therefore diuersly interpret it Simeon in his Dyet Booke saith Pythagor forbad them for that they cause turbulent fearfull dreames Other referre it to their flatulencie whereby they prouoke to lechery Other expound it mystically not according to the grammaticke sense therein shewing much reading if not wit But to gather togither their gatherings were to send my wit a wooll-gathering and indeed to contend de lana caprina Rize Choise BRight and cleare kernels like Pearles Margarite such as swell in seething Vse Wonderfully asswage the bâ—rning heate of the stomacke encreaseth séed stops fluxes Hurt Bad for the Collicke for being of a clammy and glewish nature it sticketh too long in the guts and breeds some winde Preparation Séeth it in Cowes milke or in the creame or oyle of swéete Almonds Degree Hot in the first dry in the second temperatly saith Auicens and Rhasis Season Age. Constitution In winter for youth and labourers Oriza Storie for Table-talke RIze is sowne in a moyst and lowe ground Frumentie made of Barley is moister then Rice yeeldeth singular good nourishment to the bodie verie holesome for the sicke You may much meliorate your Rice both for nourishment toothsomenesse by seething it in fat flesh-broath or in passing good Cowes morning milke Sodden with Oyle or Butter it relinquisheth his astringent qualitie The Painters Prouerbe Manum de Tabula THat is as present occasion interpreteth no more Table-talke The reason hereof as I gesse may be these First and principally except I speake wiselyer Secondly the consequent is like to proue barren for Certs fruitles for all the fruite is antecedent Thirdly and lastly it's Dinner-time so that if more time be spent in prating my Dry Dinner will not be ready in due time Quod omnium rerum est primum These reasons would binde any man any reasonable man to the peace Yet for all this presuming vpon your fauourable estimates who are wise Et nostis os adolescentiae quà m sit impudens I am purposed to proceed in my perpetuall paralell of paraphrase The which I desire it may be serued in amongst the rest of the dishes and be tasted also but yet of such onely as are of eager appetite If any be desirous to know what a maÌ„ may call it surely I can thinke of no fitter name then an hasty pudding For I protest in so great haste I composed it that when a friend of mine came into my chamber and suddenly surprising me asked what I was making I as not minding what he ask't or what I answerd tolde him in my haste that I made haste Hearbs Sage Choise GArden or set the lesser sort the litle leaues of it Vse Good against the paulsie and quiuering of the ioynts procéeding of a cold cause coÌ„forteth the head braine senses and memorie Hurt Annoyeth melancholicke persons by ouer-drying them also the hot and chollericke by ouer-heating and burning them Correction Eate it in sallets with other cold and moist hearbes as Lettuse or with moist meates Degree Hot and drie in the beginning of the third or in the verie end of the second somewhat astringent Season Age. Constitution In winter and the spring for old cold and phlegmaticke Saluia Storie for Table-talke MAny do much extoll Sage calling it an holy Hearbe auerring that it preuenteth all abortument in women They counsell a woman the fourth day of her going abroad after childe-birth to drinke nine ounces of Sage iuyce with a little salt and forthwith to vse the company of her husbant The holesomenesse of Sage-ale is notoriously famous Heywoods merry wit noted two kindes of Sage not named in our Herbals Sages wise Sage foole Foenill or Finckle Choise GArden young if you eate it gréene full ripe if you keepe it sodden with the rootes and tender stalkes Vse Doth make store of milke prouoke vrine and monthly flur open obstructions purge y e reines wondronsly helpe the sight Hurt Attenuate and inflame the blood neither sodden nor rawe is easie of digestion especially eaten much Correction A litle yong laied a while in cold water Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second many say in the third dry in the first very opening For any time age or constitution least for youth and chollerists Foeniculus Story for Table-talke SNakes Serpents by eating of Foenill renew their age and repaire their decaied sight by rubbing their eyes with it Wherfore it is vsed of vs to the like purposes There is a bad propertie in the seede to breede poysonous wormes whose poyson is curable by no Antidot Therefore afore they be eaten they must be opened and carefully purged Sparage Choise HOme lately sowne the â—ep now bowing to the ground-ward Vse Doth open obstructions of the reines and liuer make soluble prouoke vrine and Venus Hurt Eaten cold disposeth to domit and through his bitternesse greatly increaseth choller in collerickâ— stomackes Correction Is boyled and the first decoction cast out condite with Oyle Vineger Pepper and salt Degree Hotte in the first temperately moist Season Age. Constitution For any age or temperature chiefly for old and cold Asparagi Story for Table-taske DIoscorides saith that Sparage causeth barrennesse but it is not probable sithence it nourisheth very much and manifestly prouoketh Venus It is very soone sodden and therefore Caesar speaking of any thing that was soone done had this prouerbe vsually in his mouth Citiùs quà m Asparagi coquantur Id est Sooner then Sparage can be sodden As much in effect as while you caÌ„ say what's this in the turne of an hand in the twinckling of an eye Spinache Choise VEry yong growing in a wel manured and fat soyle watred from aboue Vse Doth enlarge the breast cure the cough moderately coole the lungs make the belly soluble the weasand smooth Hurt Is verie windie annoyeth the stomacke engenders watry humours in a cold stomacke Correction Fried with it owne iuyce without water then condite with Oile Sorrel-iuyce and Raysons of the sun Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Cold and moyst in the first For any age or constitution especially youth and chollerists Spinachia Storie for Table-talke SOme will needes haue this hearbe a bred natiue Spaniard and therefore miscall it Spagnaeci But they much abuse it for the Arabians called it Sphinache the reason of the name is obuious because the seed thereof is Spinosum That is prickly The iuyce of Spinache drunke cureth any wound receiued of a Scorpion Therefore it is of much request in Italy Artichokes Choise THiffle or prickly Artichokes coÌ„ming of Artichoke tender Vse Please the taste prouoke vrine and Venus remoue flatiue humours open obstructions heate the entralls Hurt
of it the greater sowne in Gardens which is the better the lesse growing in the fields hauing lesse leaues and the stalke like a speare the leaues very red and shining Burnet Choise LOw set in gardens for sallets with litle leaues notcht like a Saw and indented rounde about the Verge the stalke red Vse Doth purge the reines and bladder verie much prouoke vrine voyd the stone and grauell verie good against the plague put in wine greatly comforts the hart Hurt Hard of digestion stuffeth the belly and in many inflameth the liuer and blood Correction Eaten raw in sallets with other cold hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and drie in the second Pimpinella Storie for Table-talke IT is an Hearbe that the auncient were verie litle acquâ—â—nted with Yet the Nomenclators haue referred it vnto that sort of hearbes which are good against the stone The decoction of it made in pottage is a present remedie against the plague Also the water distilled is pâ—ssing good for that purpose It is vulgarly thought to be put in wine as a cooler but it heaâ—eth in the second degree and ioyneth with wine in his operation for the strengthening of the heart Persley Choise THe braunches afore either they flower or séed the rootes at halfe their growth Vse Very much prouoke vrine and womens fluxe clenseth the liuer and matrice openeth the obstructions of those parts is verie pleasing to theistomacke the decoction of it resists poyson Hurt Is of no verie good iuyce enflameth the blood sâ—uffeth the head is slowly digested Correction Eate it little rawe with colde hearbes sodden in flesh pottage the roote boyled throughly Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hot in the second dry in the end of the first Good sodden for any season age or constitution Petroselinum Storie for Table-talke THe excellency of this hearb accordeth with the frequent vse thereof For there is almost no meate or sauce which may not haue Persley either in it or about it Our English word Persly is a manifest contract of the Latin Petroselinum The chiefest vertue lieth in the roote second in the seed last and least in the leaues and yet these are of most vse in the kitching Taragon or byting Dragon Choise GArden in a fat moist soile the tender branches leaues not spread vpon the ground Vse Chiefe of hearbes for acâ—â—ony and sauourmes Cardâ—all exciting appetite and Venus comforting the stomacke Hurt Atteâ—uateth the blood and burns 〈◊〉 liuer naught for hot constitutions Correction Eate it sparingly with Borage flowers or Endiue Lettule and such cooling hearbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot almost in the beginning of the third drie in the second For cold old phlegmaticke Dracunculus Hortensis Story for Table-talke THis is an Artificiall herbe for it commeth of a Lineseede put into an Onyon or Leek so buried in the ground Husbandmen haue a stronge conceit of it and not without some cause that it is a preseruatiue against the plague all maner of poysoÌ„ inward or outward experience and proofe is no detracter of the credit and estimation thereof Radish Choise TEnder byting the tongue most whiâ—e Vse Helpeth vrin voydeth grauel and sand from the reines and bladder healeth the stomackâ— clarifieth the voyce Hurt Causeth lâ—annesse belechings headache and lice bâ—â—nes the blood hurseth the teeth and eyes is slowly conceâ—ed Correction Therefore is best eaten after meate Degree Hot in the second dry in the first Season Age. Constitution In colde weather for youth labourers and hot stomackes Raphanus Story for Table-talke WE English haue greatly honour'd this roote by calling it a Radish that is Radix a roote as if this roote were the only roote and all other rootes no rootes in coÌ„parison of this roote or at leastwise that the Radish is Radix radicum the roote of rootes a roote indeede a roote Cath ' Hexochen as the Rhetoricians speake a most excellent roote But I feare mee I haue ouercloy'd you with rootes may it please you to fall to somewhat else Carot or red Parsnip Choise Vse REd great sweet Prouoketh vrin Venus and monthly slure engenders milke opeâ—â—th obstructions is preferred afore the Parsnip Hurt Of 〈◊〉 and bad nourishment slowly digested very windie Preparation Boyle it thâ—oughly then eate le with 〈◊〉 oyle mustard and coriander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the second moyst in the first In colde weather for all but olde and phlegmatique Carota seu pastinaca rubens Storie for Table-talke CArot that is redde roote as some Antiquaries gesse Athenaeus quoting Diphilus saith the Grecians called the Carot Philtrum for that it is thought to be agreat furtherer of Venus her pleasure and of loues delights but although generally it furdereth Venus yet it is especially to bee vnderstood of the wilde Carot Onyons Choise THat grow in a moyst soyle great full of iuyce round as the Flemish Vse Excite Venus increase séede and milke restore appetitie preserue in change of water Hurt Eaten raw or much cause headache burne the blood dull the vnderstanding hurtes the eyes Correction Degree Season Age. Constitution Lay it sliced a while in cold water then séethe it throughly Hot in the third dry in the second For old and colde onely Cepa Story for Table-talke THe word Onyon comes of the olde Latine name Vnio For so the olde Latine Rusticks tearmed that which the latter call Cepa And the reason why they called it Vnio was because one herbe or branche as it were groweth vpon one roote Whereto accordeth that that Columella saith in his 12. Booke and 10. cha of Husbandry Cepa simplex quam Vnionem Rustici vocant Garlicke Storie for Table-talke Choise THat comes vp about March put in sallets or vsed dry full of sprigs and knots Vse Greene qualifieth the coldnes and moystnes of sallets dry it resists poysons cleares the voyce kils wormes prouoketh vrin and Venus consumes the salt rume in the stomacke Hurt Hurtes the voyding facultie braine sight head very bad for women with childe youth and hot constitutions reuiueth old diseasâ—s 〈◊〉 the blood CorrectioÌ„ Boâ—ls 〈◊〉 throughly then eate it wâ—th oile vinegâ—r or other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the fourth dry in the third In colde weather for the aged and phlegmatique Allium Story for Table-talke GArlicke is of most speciall vse for Sea-faring men a most excellent preseruaâ—iue against all infection proceeding from the nastie sauor of the pump or sincke and of tainted meates which Mariners are faine to eate for fault of better It also pacifieth the disposition to vomit crused by the roughnesse of the sea and greatly strengthneth the rowers therefore they eate it by break of day It may be rightly termed the poore mans phisicke Scallion or litle Onyon Choise SMall like a Daffodill Roote red hard sweete Vse Helpeth a saâ—nt stomack languishing through ouermuch heate causeth appetite furthereth concoction Hurt Causeth winde grosse humors headache thirst dreames Correction Prepared as the Onyon condite with strong Viâ—
Therefore in vshering these my seruices I professe my selfe a verie preuaricatour of this Ages fashion and do follow the order of vniuersall time by consequence and succession Thus much all we know our grand parents at first sed on the fruites of Edeâ— and some merrily say Adam robbed Gods Orch-yard 〈◊〉 â—fter their exitement they fell to Hearbes and Rootes and as seculer 〈◊〉 witnesieth we liued a long time like Hâ—gâ—es with Mast or Accornes till age taught Tillage But all either could not or would not be husbandmen therefore some went forth on huÌ„ting some at home kept sheep and cattle so came we to finde sauour in Flesh Which probably we did long afore we tasted Fish since of the two Flesh is more obuious easie to be had As also Fish by good reason preueÌ„ted white-meates for the simple is afore the Compound and the Naturall afore the Artificiall Therefore after Fish follow White-meates requiring the helpe of art and bumane inuention in tract of time Neither did our infinit appetite here consist contented with things necessary but something yet was wanting to adde voluptuous delight Wherefore wanton appetite growing weary of Natures bare and simple Ordinary gan glycurously to banquet with all sorts of Spices and Aromatique delicates But eating Honny with a Ladle it was soone cloyed with the excesse of sweetnesse so that tart Condiments sauces seemed requisite to prouoke and reuoke loathing and lost appetite Thus proceded wee by degrees from simplicitie and necessitie to varietie and plentie ending in luxury and superfluitie So that at last our bodies by surfeeding being ouerflowne and drowned as it were in a surplurisie or deluge of a superfluous rawe humour commonly called Rheume we were to be anheled like newe dampish Ouens or olde dwelling houses that haue stood long desolate Hence is it that we perfume and aire our bodies with Tabacco smoake by drying preseruing them from putrifation May your Worships be fully satisfied with this reason of my extraordinary Dry Dinner to whom both it and my self are purposely deuoted the first dish of it I meane a Figge for the rest Vntil I haue in readinesse some other matter more worthie your countenance and Patronage I most humbly take my leaue Your Worships Scholler H. Buttes Partem Patria To my Country-men Readers The partiall Method WElcome courteous Countrey-men I meane especially NorfolkmeÌ„ For they are true Catholiques in matter of Dyet no Recusants of any thing that is mans meate I bid all in general excepting only such as are affrayed of roasted Pigge a breast or legge of Mutton a Ducke c. To conclude I forbid no man but him onely that hath maried a wife cannot come No man shall loose his labour Here are Lettuses for euery mans lips For the Northeren-man White-meates Beefe Mutton Venison for the Southerne man Fruites Hearbes Fowle Fish Spice and Sauce As for the Middle-sex or Londoner I smell his Diet. Vescitur aura aetheria Here is a Pipe of right Trinidado for him The Yorkers they will bee content with bald Tabacodocko What should I say here is good Veale for the Essex-man passing Leekes and excellent Cheese for the Welsh-man Denique quid non Mary here are neither Eg-pies for the Lancashire-man nor Wag-tayles for the Kentish-man But that is all one here is other good cheere enough And what is wanting in meate shall bee supplyed in kinde welcome and officious attendance Least any thing should be amisse or missing to thee I haue my selfe for fault of a better taken vpon me all such Offices as any way concerne this Dinner First I am Cator and haue prouided the very choise of such daynties as Natures Market affoordeth Secondly I am Taster commending each dish to thy Palate according to his right vse and vertue And since nothing is so perfectly good as it partaketh no euill property I haue put into a by-dish like Egshelles in an Saucer what worthily may breed offence Herein imitating a merry Greeke who espying an haire in a dish of Butter called for another dish and dished it by it self Thirdly I play the Cooke so preparing seasoning and saucing the harmefull disposition of euery meat as it shall be either in whole abolished or in part qualified Lastly I assume the Caruers Office and hauing noted the nature and operation of each particular dispense to euery of my Guests according to the Season his Age and Constitution Thus very rudely I obtrude vnto thee not a banquet but a byt rather of each dish Scholler-likely that is badly carued For Schollers are bad Caruers Do thou by thy kindly feeding on Dyets dry Dinner but cause thy selfe to thirst for Dyets Drinking and I shall with like alacrity act thy Cup-bearer Wherefore vntill thou beest Dry drunke Fare-well Thy Countryman H. Buttes The Authors Method compriseâ— in Verse by Samuel VVallsall COme welcome Guest s' deigne not whateuer Wiâ—â— Thou be this shot-free entertainement This Boord with Fruit Hearbs Flesh Fish Whitâ—â— Spice Sauce Tabacco and faire furniment Fruit suites thy Fish Hearbs relish Flesh aright Sauce sharpens both Spice sweetens White-meatâ— Fruit Herbs Flesh Fish Whit-meats Spice Concoct are by Tabaccos cordiall First is here Friut th' Authors first-fruits dispred Our Grand-sire Adam base earthes baser stime In Paradice earths heau'n enthronized Slakd hungers rage on Fruit-full Orchards prime But soone as Man fro Man degendered Tainted with blemishment of Vgly crime Aimightie this a veng-full doome areeds That beastly Man shall beast like graze on Weediâ— Whose nicer appetite being olut of yore With nigard earths so bloodlesse caterie Gan murdrous hand embrew in gâ—â—iltlesse gore And raunge amid the Forrests farre and nye And chace with winged foote the tuskie Bore â—d blood with bloods expence full deere abye â—or rests his thirsting soule aslackt with blood â—ut must be drenched in the fomy Flood â—rets out whateuer Fishes wonn â—the Maine or in the Christall Brooke â—sated yet must Whit-meates feeden on 〈◊〉 meats addressed by Art Natures Cooke â—lis Arabie still Lands outgon 〈◊〉 or Esting Sunnes or â—estings looke 〈◊〉 Phenix-like t'embalme with Spiceâ—y â—d to perfume Arts queinter Cookery â—st thou keen thy blunted appetenes â—d with Spices loathsome surfiture â—omacks whet-stones tongue-tart Condimenes 〈◊〉 thy lunges haue tane discomfiture â—assault of Rume loe surest fence 〈◊〉 Rumes incursion power-full to recure â—efeebled and reuiue the deaded spright â—eraine Nepenthes which Tabacco hight â—co not to antique Sages knowne â—rizardi that Tabacco knewen not â—le agreeu'd with care is head o'reflowns â—rinie de luge of defluxes hot â— by stealth the neighbour parts adowne â—hiffe and smoke Tabaccos antidot Fom out thy kindly traunced Chimny-head With Iâ—dish ayre like to Chameleon fed The same man in prayse of this learnedly witty Booke â—Ome stead of Dieting wont Eating dy Paunched with gormandise and Surquedry Loe Buttes aright thy Legend aymes I weene â—gend where Natures art
eger Oyle Salt eaten with brused Sage Parsly moderately Degree Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ Hotte in the fourth drie in the third Vnholesome for hot season age comâ—tution Cepa Ascalonia Storie for Table-talke A Scalion is so called of Ascalon a Towne in Iudaea where it is very plentifull and was first found Thence transplanted to Greece and Italy and so to these paits The Latines call the Scalion Onyon Lecke and Garlicke by one common name Buâ—bus The Scalion infinitely furthereth Venus as some say that haue vsed it to that purpose Leekes Choise GArden sowne in a moyst soyle or often watred vâ—rie small and tender Prouoke vrine Venus monthly flux breakâ— winde 〈◊〉 with hony â—â—â—difie the lungs lights applied in a plaister cure the Hemorhoids Hurt Bréed melancholious humours annoy the head dimme the sight procure fearefull dreames ouerlay the stomacke make vlcers in the bladder Correction Sodden twiâ—â— then dressed with Oyle of sweet Almonds and eaten with Lettuse Endiue Purslane Degree Season Age. Constitution Hotte in the third drie in the second Vnfit nourishment for any but rusticke swaines Porrum Story for Table-talke THe Emperour Nero tooke great pleasure in this roote and therefore was nick-named Pâ—rrophaguâ— which to English is as much as Welchman Garlick Onion and Leekes are very holesome but their sauour is passing loathsome and offensiue Wherefore some haue thought of a medicament to take away the sent of them But none like Syr Thomas Mores To take away the smell of Onions eate Leekes and to conuince your Leekes eate a clowe or two of Garlicke and if then Garlicke breath be strong choke him with a piece of a T. with a u. with an r. with a d. Colewort Choise ONly the tender buddes and long sprowtes cropt off the herbe whose leaues are wide open and â—et câ—mpacted Vse Halfe sodâ—â—n make soluble thorowly boylâ—d 〈◊〉 Hurt Anns◠〈◊〉 lists especially in somâ—â—◠〈◊〉 it is harder then at other times Preparation Seethe them 〈◊〉 in water then that decâ—ction 〈◊〉 in fat flesh broath with 〈◊〉 and Pepper Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold and 〈◊〉 in the fist In the priâ—â—â— of the spring Brassica Storie for Table-talke MAister Gerard in his newe Hâ—rbal reckoneth 18 sorts of Colewoâ—ts differing either in colour or forme It is called by the Graecians Amethystus because it repelleth drunkennesse or because it resembleth the precious stone called the Amethyst The Apothicaries and common Herbarists call it Caulâ—s because it hath so goodly a stalke so the right name is Cawle not Cole Flesh Veale Choise Of a sucking Calfe let runne abroad two or three dayes afore from the Dame fed in châ—â—â—â— pasture Vse Nourisheth excellently makes 〈◊〉 good blood holesome for them that exercise much Hurt Though yong and tender yet being of grâ—sse substance naturally hurteth the weake or in recouery Correction Boyled with yong Pullets or fat Capons and Parsly Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperate in all qualities For all seasons ages constitutions Vitulina Storie for Table-talke THe Italians should be calfes by their name for Italos in Greeke is the same that Vitulus in Latine and calfe in English Therefore they collaude it by tearming it Vitella id est vitam illia dans signifying the holesomnesse thereof to a good stomacke It is good for sound and ableconstitutions not so good for the weake sicke or languishing stomackes for it is of a lash and yet grosse substance not very digestible Essex calfes the prouerb praiseth and some are of the minde that Waltome calfe was also that countrey man Beefe Choise MOst yong and tender fat wrought at plowe or other strong labour Vse Nourisheth exceedingly engendreth very much blood stoppes chollerous fluxes Hurt Is of bad nourishment slowe of digestion makes grosse blood yea clodders of blood in the veines and other melanchollicke diseases Correction Is powdred with much sall 24 houres and sodden exquisitly Degree Season Age. Constitution Cold in the first dry in the second The tenderest in cold weather for youth labourers and great exercisers Vaccina seu Bubula Story for Table-talke BEefe quasi Boue of Bos an Oxe Cowe or Steere Sir Thomas More in his Vtopia Li. 2. commendeth the Oxe farre aboue the Horse Oxen yeeld to horses in fiercenes but excell them in patience neyther are they subiect to so many diseases are kept with lesse charge and lastly worne out at plowe and cart yet are mans meate in fine The Oxe is the Country-mans fellow-labourer and one of Ceres 〈◊〉 houshold seruants Prometheus first slew an Oxe Wethers Mutton Choise NOt yet of the first Shere â— sheepe Wether not Goate Vse Makes very much and very good nourishment for the weake Hurt Olde is vnholesouâ—e being corrupted with age and ouermuch dried for want of his stones Degree The yonger boyled is eaten with opening and cardiall herbes Season Age. Constitution Temperately hot and moyst For any time age constitution or region Veruex Story for Table-talke THose things which are most necessarie vnto vs by Gods great goodnes are also most common what more necessary to life then ayre and what more obuious insomuch as that onely is the Eliment elmeno Tyrant can depriue the meanest Vassall off not taking away his life Aqua igni interdici potest so the most holesome and conuenient meate for sustenante of our bodyes is mutton and beefe of all other flesh most coÌ„mon I dare say there are no foure other sundry meates wherewith wee may continue longer full fedde with lesse loathing Goate-flesh Choise REd and blacke kiddes scarse halfe yeare lately caned not yet weaned Vse Is easily and soone digested of best nourishment good especially for such as are weake or in recouery Hurt Vnholesome for the aged colde and moyst stomackes and such as exercise much Preparation Holesommer roast then sodde the hinder quarters then the fore because they lesse abounde with excrementitious moysture Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst temperately â— the first For yong and hot stomackes not old nor flegmaticke Caprilla Story for Table-talke CApra à Carpendo because it carpeth and biteth off the yong buddes and sprowtes of plants and shrubbes That which we call a Kidde the Italians call Capretto till it be halfe yeare olde and then they alter the name An heard of Goates finding Eringium gather together to it and depart not thence vntill they haue eaten it all vp quite and cleane They can best render the reason who are goatish and loue to eat Eringoes Lambe Choise MAle a yeare olde fit for seasoning not in winter Vse It is of excéeding good and plentifull nourishment resisting melancholly best for an hot constitution Hurt Sucking Lambe is excéeding moyst therefore nought for phlegmatique stomackes PreparatioÌ„ A yéerling roasted and eaten with Rosemary Garlicke Sage cloues and such hot things Degree Hot in the first moyst in the second the sucking is moyst in the third order Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For hot weather youth and chollerists Agnus Story for Table-talke
IF the Southwinde blow in seasoning time the Sheepheardes may looke for store of Ewe lambes if the North winde then for Males So soone as the Lambe is eaned it knoweth his damme and presently gins to play and dally with her All femall mutton or vnder a yeere olde breedes bâ—d iuâ—ce for it is ouermoyst making thicke and clammy humours It is no meate for cold seasons Swines Flesh Choise NOr olde nor thinne but of a full groweth and middle age male fed in the fields Vse Doth yéeld very much and very good nourishment for labourers especially kéepe the paunch slipperie prouoke vrine Hurt Hurt olde folke and those that liue delicately or at ease hasten the Gowte and Sciatica CorrectioÌ„ The leane of a yong fat Hog eaten moderately with spices and such hot things Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the first moist in the end of the second In colde weather for youth hot stomackes and labourers Porcus Story for Table-talke IN olde time they detested Swines flesh accounting it ouer moyst especially sucking pigges or yong shotes and surely they were wiser then we our appetite captiuates our reason in this matter The most tollerable is such as is at his full growth and naturall perfection Which flesh questionles commeth neerest to mans in taste and sauour especially being a litle powdred BacoÌ„ may be eaten with other flesh to prouoke appetite and to cut asunder fleame cloddered in the stomack wilde Boare Choise YOng fat tender much chased in winter Vse Of much nourishment is fit meate for great excercisers easie of digestion Hurt Nought for olde and idle folkes in making store of excrâ—mentitions and superfluous homours Preparation Carued into steakes and spiced or as the Italians make their Brolardieri or else baked with store of spice Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst in the first temperatly In colde weather for hot and laborious Aper seu Apcugna Storie for Table-talke IN the beginning of winter the wilde saine gender and about the prime of the spring they pigge in desart streyte craggie and deuious places If they bee at any time sicke their physicke is Iuie They are so so loadeÌ„ with the weight of their vrin that Hunters surprize them at such time as it vrgeth them not giuing them leasure to voyde it and so not being able to escape by flight take thm P. Seruillius Rullus first serued in Wilde Boare to the table mongst the Romaines Red Deere Choise YOng and if it may bée such as yet sucketh gelt so soone as it is calfed Vse Is of excéeding good nourishment Hurt Olde breedes euill humours harde of digestion causeth a quartane feuer Preparation Roast or baked in pasties larded with the fat of other beastes Degree Hot somewhat remisty in the first dry in the second Season Age. Constitution Neither for hot weather nor for olde folkes very bad for melancholists Ceruus Storie for Table-talke HArtes flesh yeeldeth but grosse and melancholious nourishment EateÌ„ at breakfast it is said to prolong ones life at supper to abridge the same The Hinde goeth 8. moneths with her yong which so soone as she hath calued she exerciseth them to the race carryeth them to steepe down-fals and teacheth them to leape It is a most simple and innocent Animall howsoeuer nature in a mockery hath armed it most magnificently It is the very Emblem of a Gull girded to a sword being as hartlesse as the Hartis Fallow Deere Choise YOng fat very well chased hang'd vntill it be tender Vse Nourisheth better then any other Venison especially resisteth the collicke palsie good for such as abound with humours Hurt Hurteth the leane and thinne for making dry blood it annoyes the sinewes especially being olde Correction In roasting basted throughly with oyle or larded very much Degree Season Age ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and dry in the second Bad for youth and chollerists good for them that haue the palsie and store of rume Dama Storie for Table-talke IT is a rare thing to see a tame Doe and yet it may hardly be tearmed wilde howsoeuer the Latines call it Fera in speciall and the flesh thereof Forina For there are many brutes which are Neuters neither wilde nor tame but in a meane as the Swallow amongst Foules amongst Flies the Bee mongst Fishes the Dolphin Martiall hath penned the Does lamentable women-tation in two verses thus The Bore is feared for his tosh His hornes defend the Hart But we poore harmles hartles Does Are nak'd on euery part Hare Choise YOng well coursed Vse It maketh slender causeth good fresh colour in the face Hurt Slowly digested engenders melancolike blood much eaten makes sléepie and drowsie Preparation Farsed with suet or gobbets of Larde and spices Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the second In winter for youth sanguine not for melancholists or students Lepus Story for Table-talke HAres flesh is good for those that wold be leane faire It is a receiued opinion that vse of Hares fleshe procureth beautie fresh colour and cheerfull countenance for a seuenight space in so much as the Italians haue a by-word which speaketh thus of a faire man He hath eaten an Hare And Martiall mockes a foule sowe telling her that shee htah not eaten any Hares fleshe of a weeke It runneth most swiftly especially vp the hill because the fore feet be shorter then the hinder legges Conny Choise YOng fat in winter hangd a night in the coole Vse Affordeth store of verie good nourishment consumes all corrupt humours and fleame in the stomacke Hurt Hurteth melancholists and olde folkes PreparatioÌ„ Parboyled then roasted with swéete hearbes cloues and other spices Degree Cold in the beginning of the first drie in the second Season Age. Constitution In hot weather somewhat vnholesome for the foresaid Cuniculus Story for Table-talke BEcause the Conny is somewhat like the Hare it is called Paruus Lepus the lesse Hare It taught the souldier to vndermine his enemy by earthing which the Latines tearme Cuniculum agere to play the Conny And yet alas of it selfe it is very Conny a most simple Animall wheÌ„ce are deriued our vsual phrases of Conny and Conny-catching There is so great store of Connies in the Baleares Insulae vsually called Maiorica and Minorica that oft they waste their whole crop of corne and cause extreme dearth in those Ilands Capon Choise YOng fat well crammed set vp a fatting in a wide Coâ—pe Vse Yéelds to mans body better nourishment then any other meat principally good for the braine procureth an equall temperature of all the humors Hurt Giueth such as take their ease ouermuch nourishment Correction Vsed moderatly and with extraordinary exercise Degree Season Age. Constitution Possesseth an equal temperaturâ— of all qualities For any time age constitution Capo Story for Table-talke SO named for his excellencie and chiefe worth amongst all foules of that kinde It makes perfect blood The Italians denue the name of two Hetrurian words Quá pone that is huc appone set it
comforteth the stomacke sharpeneth y e wit exciteth Venus Hurt Being exceeding dry hurts chollerists and melancholists Correction Fedde in the house with moyst meates then kill and hang it two nights in the coole Degree Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ Hot and dry in the second In colde weather for old folkes and phlegmatike Turtur Storie for Table-talke AT the beginning of the Springe they hide themselues because they then â—ast their feathers and are in a maner naked It is a thing noted in the Turtle that while it drinketh it lifteth not vp her head as all other birdes doe The time of her life is eight yeares It purgeth it self with an herbe that groweth vpon walles Quaile Choise NOt fed with Hellebore or Beare-foote taken with the Quaile-pipeâ— fat and tender Vse Doth helpe melancholists onely by moistning their dry constitutioÌ„ Hurt Easily corrupteth in the stomack inuiteth the Ague Palsie Cramp Correction Eaten with Vinegar and Corander Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot in the end of the first moist in the end of the second In cold weather hurteth olde folkes paralytick and flegmatick Coturnix Storie for Table-talke I Am much in doubt whether Coturnix be our Quaile Cardan also doubteth and his maner of doubting maketh me dout more for setting downe sixe degrees of delicates that please the taste he maketh Quaile the first dish of the first courâ—e His words are these Aues videntur primum locuÌ„ vendicare atque inter eas qualea seu sit Coturnix seu non hand refert I am sure all other writers giue Coturnix their euil word affirming that it is a breeder of the Crampe Palsie and Falling sicknesse and in a word passeth for badnesse Thrush Mauis or Blacke-bird Choise IN cold weather fat fed with holly Iuniper and Mertle berryes Vse Is of very good iuyce easily digested very holesome for such as are in recouery Hurt Naught for those that are subiect to the migram or frensie PreparatioÌ„ Sod in good flesh broath with parsly and other opening herbes Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and dry in the very ende of the first In colde weather for any but olde folkes Turdus Story for Table-talke THis Lataine name soundeth to English eares somewhat vnsauoury but much worse as I haue heard it ioyned with other like Consonants As for example Edo Fartum Turdum pistum But there is nothing euill spoken but being euill taken Now because it signifies diuersly a Thrush a Black-birde a Manis some may bee desirous to know if all these bee much of a nature yet Virum horum which is best and holesomest Therefore to his Virum horuÌ„ I answere Mauis accipe Pliny reporteth Agrippa Claudius Caesars wife had a Mâ—uis that did speake very plainly Egges Choise OF yong and fat Hens Cock trodden new laied Vse Nourish soone and much excite Venus supplying matter for it very much helpe them that are in a consumption open the breast stay spitting of blood clarifie the voyce Hurt Hinder the concoction of meates eaten presently after them make the face freckled Correction Eate them boyled she yolke only and pawse betwixt Egges and other meates Degree Season Age. Constitution Temperately hot and moyst New for all seasons ages constitutions and diseases Ovum Storie for Table-talke EGges some thinke because theâ— egge on backward husbands Egges haue the possibilitie of being liuing creatures The white is cold the yolke hot They nourish soone and much by reason of the pliable softnesse of their substance and temperature very proportionable to our flesh and nature Not only Hens Egs but Partritch Phesant and Turkies be verie holesome Fish Carpe Choise VVHensoeuer you can get it great or litle Vse Nourishith best tasteth most excellently and erquisirely in all mens iudgementes a fish of chiefe note Hurt Onely it is soonetainted therefore dresie it presently Preparation Lay it sealed and gutted sire houres in salt then fry it in oyle and besprinkle it with vinegar in which Spaces and Saffâ—on haue boyled Degree Temperately hot and moyst in the 〈◊〉 either first Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ For any season age or constitution Cyprinus qui Carpio Story for Table-talke NOne of the Greeke or Latine writers euer knewe this fish In Italy it is somewhat rare and thought to bee onely in the lake Benacus and the lake commonly called Della posta It spawneth about the beginning of the summer Many are of the minde that it eateth gold because in the guites are found no other excrementes but a bright sanâ— glittering like golde and besides it liueâ—h alway at the bottome of the lake Trout Choise THick caught in May in a 〈◊〉 running Riuer full of deepe down-fals and Rocks and not out of standing pooles Vse Nourisheth well soone digested yeelds coole iuyce for an ouer hottâ— Liuer and blood therefore good in hot Agues Hurt It soone putrifieth scarse fit for old men and weake stomackes Correction Seethe it in iust somuch Vineger as water ease it with sower sance assoone as you can Degree Cold in the beginning of the first moist in the ende Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ In hot weather for all ages but decrepit euery temperature but phlegmaticke Trocta seu Turtur Story for Table-talke IT is very much commended for good nourishment Insomuch as it is permitted vnto one sicke of an hot ague That it is passing holesome our vulgar prouerbe accordeth As sound as a Trout And another phrase Fish-whole I think is most ment of the Trout It is a fish that loueth to be flattered and clawed in the water by which meanes it is often taken Sturgion Choise RIuer for it is fatter and therfore more gratefull to the palate then sea Sturgion in sommer the belly of it Vse A friendly dish on the table very daintie and of chiefe account nourisheth very well inciteth Venus cooleth the blood moderately Hurt Naught for the sicke or in recouery for it is somewhat too fatte makes thicke and clammy iuyce slowly digested Correction Séeth it in water and vineger let the sauce be white vineger with a litle Cynamon or Fennel in it Degree Hot in the beginning of the first moyst in the second Season Age. ConstitutioÌ„ In hot weather for all but those that are plagued with distillations and diseased ioynts Sturio seu Acipenser Story for Table-talke PLiny in his 9. booke of Naturall story and 17. Chapter writeth thus In former times Sturgion was counted a most noble Fish now it is of no reckoning the which I much maruell at sithens it is so rare We may now a dayes vse Plinies wordes with an inuersioÌ„ of the sense For what fish is there almost now of greater esteeme It hath his skales turning toward his mouth and swimmeth against the streame Lamprey Choise RIuer in March or Aprill for then it is notably fat and the backe bone marrow tenderest Vse It hath a most excellent fine relish nourisheth passing well increaseth seed a Lordly dish Hurt Somewhat slowe of digestion especially not boiled inogh naught for the Gout and
or Cra-fish Choise RIuer or fresh water rather then sea Crab at the prime of the spring or in haruest when the Moone is at the full Vse Good for the corsumption and biting of a mad dog prouoketh â—rine Venus purgeth the reynes nourisheth very much Hurt The meate is hard of conection bréedeth grosse and phlegmaticke humours Preparation Degree Season Age. Constitution Roast it quicke on the â—â—bers eate it with vineger and pepper Colde in the second moyst in the first Cancer Storie for Table-talke THe Crab also wants a head and therfore hath all the Organs of sense placed in his breast It engendreth at the mouth goeth as readily backewarde It turneth red in seething In the Coasts and riuer bancks of Phaenicia there be Crabbes so swift in running that it is a great masterie to ouertake them on foote white-meates Milke Choise OF yong beastes â—edde in the choise pasture 1. Womans 2. Cowes 3. Sheepes 4. Goates Vse Milke increaseth braine fattes the body good for hecticke asswageth scalding heat of the vrin nourisheth plentefully procureth good colour furthereth Venus Hurt Naught for feuers headaches sore eyes distillations of rume diseased reynes obstructions the teeth the gummes olde folkes CorrectioÌ„ A litle afore you take it put into it some salt sugar or hony least it curdle in the stomacke drinke it fasting Degree Moyst in the second temperately hot Season Age. Constitution For hot weather youth chollerists and strong stomackes Lac. Story for Table-talke MIlke consisteth of a threefold substance The first is whitish colde and moyst Nitrous and powerfull to make the belly soluble The second fat and oyly of temperate qualitie of which butter is made The third is grosse clammy and flegmaticke whereof cheese is made Eate no more Milke then you can well digest though it seemeth to be soft and easie meat fit for children and milkesops yet it is not so Vse no vilolence after it nor drinke wine afore you feele it throughly decocted Butter Choise THe newest and swéetest shéeps Cleanseth and mightily fetcheth vp fleame cloddered about the breast and longs especially procéeding of a colde cause quieteth the cough Vse Too often vsed makes the stomake loose and weake and causeth loathing Hurt Eate strengthening and astringent meates vpon it or old Saccarum Rosatum Correction Hot and moist in the beginning of the second Degree Season Age. Constitution At any time for olde folkes rather then youth because it much purgeth distillations Butyrum Storie for Table-talke NEw Butter and newe Oyle are of like nature and operation The benefite and vse of salt Butter is very notable For only that way it may be preserued neither thereby doeth it lose his proper vertue to open and enlarge the breast the older it is the hotter also it waxeth The Flemming or Hollander is thought to liue so long as hee doth onely for his excessiue eating of Butter Some eate it first and last Creame Choise NEw boyled with a soft fire so soone as it is flette of the milke Vse As good as butter for the diseases of the brest pleasant to the taste cureth the sharpenesse and drowth of the stomacke Hurt Slowly concocted swimmeth aboue other meates of grosse iuyce easily turnes to fumes Preparation Vse it sparingly put store of sugar and hony into it Degree Season Age. Constitution Hot and moyst in the first Fitter for youth chollericke and strong stomackes then the old and rumaticke Flos lactis Story for Table-talke RIghtly so tearmed by the Latines for it is the very flower of milke as also butter is the flower of Creame Although it be not altogether so fat and oyly as butter yet shal one be glutted and euen loathed with it far sooner then with butter neither is it so lasting as butter but changeth in a moment many times as Dairy maides can better informe you Curdes Choise MAde of the most choise morning milke fire-newe for these be most digestable Vse Holesome for hot constitutions and such as are troubled with the distillations of chollerous humors quench thirst and restraine choller Hurt Annoy colde stomakes and the smowes make drowsie slowly digested Degree Season Age. Constitution Colde and dry in the first At any time for youth chollerists and such as exercise much Lac coagulatum Recocta vulgo Storie for Table-talke PLatina missed his cushion where he saith that Curds are hot of temperature for experience thereof we may note the vse of them For let a sound hot and strong stomacke eate them and they doe him more good then hurt but if a colde stomacke eate them they will neuer be concocted enough The reason is plaine their colde and grosse temprature Cheese Choise NEw made of well tempered milke of beastes fed in choise pasture Vse Mollifieth fatteth gratefull to the palate Hurt Too often vse of it bréedes obstructions especially in a weake stomacke Correction Eate it with Nuts Almondes Peares and Apples and neuer but when you haue neede Degree Season Age. Constitution Colde and moyst in the second For youth and great exercisers for it requireth a strong stomacke Caseus Storie for Table-talke GReene or new cheese newly made nourisheth and moysteneth more theÌ„ salt and olde That which is neither new nor old but in a meane best agreeth with the stomacke especially eaten moderately They that haue best leysure loue cheese best I would wish them to write an Apologie in defense of the common dislike thereof why so many loue it not Spice Pepper Choise THe cornes new full not full of withered wrinckles Vse Helpes concoction recals appetite breakes winde strengtheneth the stomacke very much heateth the sinewes and muskles prouokes vrine wasts fleame Hurt Hurtful to hot constitutions especially in hot weather and hot countries consumeth séede immoderately vsed burneth the blood Correction Vsed moderately in cold weather and in moyst meates not ouermuch beaten Degree Hot and dry in the third and almost in the beginning of the fourth Season Age. CoÌ„stitutioÌ„ For colde weather olde folkes rumaticke and such as are subiect to distillations Piper Storie for Table-tacke IN India Pepper is gathered in October and dryed in the Sunne the Cornes strewed in beds of palme-leaues vntill they be wrinckled Isidorus telleth a mad tale of Pepper that it groweth in certaine woods on the South side of Caucase mount which woods are full of serpents therefore the inhabitantes of those partes set the woodes on fire to scarre away the serpentes and so the Pepper comes to be blacke Cinamon Choise THe finest or thinnest of an exquisite sweete smell biting taste and colour red new Vse Prouokes vrine resists poysons strengthens the braine and all the entralles comforteth the sight preserues from putrifaction Hurt Hurtes the colleâ—â—ke in hots weather and hot couÌ„tries also hot constitutions by inflaming the inward parts and blood Correction Vsed moderately with colde or moyst meates not beaten ouer much Degree Season Age. Constitution Very hot in the third In colde weather for olde and colde and weake stomakes