[Footnote 24: See the recipe to make it, lines 121-76; and in _Forme of Cury_, p. 161.] [Footnote 25: Muffett held a very different opinion. ‘Old and dry cheese hurteth dangerously: for it stayeth siege [stools], stoppeth the Liver, engendereth choler, melancholy, and the stone, lieth long in the stomack undigested, procureth thirst, maketh a stinking breath and a scurvy skin: Whereupon Galen and Isaac have well noted, That as we may feed liberally of ruin cheese, and more liberally of fresh Cheese, so we are not to taste any further of old and hard Cheese, then to close up the mouth of our stomacks after meat,’ p. 131.] [Footnote 26: In youth and old age. Muffett says, p. 129-30, ‘according to the old Proverb, _Butter is Gold in the morning, Silver at noon, and lead at night._ It is also best for children whilst they are growing, and for old men when they are declining; but very unwholesom betwixt those two ages, because through the heat of young stomacks, it is forthwith converted into choler [bile]. The Dutchmen have a by-Verse amongst them to this effect, _Eat Butter first, and eat it last,_ _And live till a hundred years be past’_] [Footnote 27: See note to l. 82.] [Footnote 28: See ‘Rompney of Modoñ,’ among the sweet wines, l. 119.] [Footnote 29: _Eschec & mat._ Checke-mate at Chests; and (metaphorically) a remedilesse disaster, miserie, or misfortune. Cot.] [Footnote 30: _? ascia_, a dyse, Vocab. in _Reliq. Ant._ v. 1, p. 8, col. 1; _ascia_, 1. an axe; (2. a mattock, a hoe; 3. an instrument for mixing mortar). _Diessel_, ofte _Diechsel_, A Carpenter-axe, or a Chip-axe. Hexham.] [Footnote 31: ? The name of the lees of some red wine. Phillips has _Rosa Solis_, a kind of Herb; also a pleasant Liquor made of Brandy, Sugar, Cinnamon, and other Ingredients agreeable to the Taste, and comfortable to the Heart. (So called, as being at first prepared wholly of the juice of the plant ros-solis (sun-dew) or drosera. Dict. of Arts and Sciences, 1767.)] [Footnote 32: See note, l. 31.] [Footnote 33: See note on these wines at the end of the poem.] [Footnote 34: In the Recipe for Jussel of Flessh (Household Ord., p. 462), one way of preparing the dish is ‘for a Lorde,’ another way ‘for Commons.’ Other like passages also occur.] [Footnote 35: Graines. _Cardamomum, Graine de paradis._ Baret. ‘Graines of Paradise; or, the spice which we call, Graines.’ Cotgrave.] [Footnote 36: _Cuite_, a seething, baking. Cot.]