Here dyed this translatour and noble poette Lidgate and the yong follower gan his prolog on this wys.] [Footnote 3: One can fancy that a cook like Wolsey’s (described by Cavendish, vol. i. p. 34), “a Master Cook who went daily in damask satin, or velvet, with a chain of gold about his neck” (a mark of nobility in earlier days), would be not _leef_ but _loth_ to obey an usher and marshal.] [Footnote 4: Warton, ii. 264-8, ed. 1840. For further details about the Duke see the Appendix to this Preface.] [Footnote 5: See one MS., “How to serve a Lord,” ab. 1500 A.D., quoted in the notes to the Camden Society’s Italian Relation of England, p. 97.] [Footnote 6: For the Early English Text Society.] [Footnote 7: I have put figures before the motions in the dress and undress drills, for they reminded me so of “Manual and Platoon: by numbers.”] [Footnote 8: Mr Way says that the _planere_, l. 58, is an article new to antiquarians.] [Footnote 9: Randle Holme’s tortoise and snails, in No. 12 of his Second Course, Bk. III., p. 60, col. 1, are stranger still. “Tortoise need not seem strange to an alderman who eats turtle, nor to a West Indian who eats terrapin. Nor should snails, at least to the city of Paris, which devours myriads, nor of Ulm, which breeds millions for the table. Tortoises are good; snails excellent.” Henry H. Gibbs.] [Footnote 10: “It is nought all good to the goost that the gut asketh” we may well say with William who wrote _Piers Ploughmon_, v. 1, p. 17, l. 533-4, after reading the lists of things eatable, and dishes, in Russell’s pages. The later feeds that Phylotheus Physiologus exclaims against[*] are nothing to them: “What an _Hodg-potch_ do most that have Abilities make in their Stomachs, which must wonderfully oppress and distract Nature: For if you should take _Flesh_ of various sorts, _Fish_ of as many, _Cabbages_, _Parsnops_, _Potatoes_, _Mustard_, _Butter_, _Cheese_, a _Pudden_ that contains more then ten several Ingredents, _Tarts_, _Sweet-meats_, _Custards_, and add to these _Churries_, _Plums_, _Currans_, _Apples_, _Capers_, _Olives_, _Anchovies_, _Mangoes_, _Caveare_, _&c._, and jumble them altogether into one _Mass_, what Eye would not loath, what Stomach not abhor such a _Gallemaufrey?_ yet this is done every Day, and counted _Gallent Entertainment_.”] [Footnote 10*: Monthly Observations for the preserving of Health, 1686, p. 20-1.]