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l. 348-9. Fumositees. But to wash the feete in a decoction of Baye
leaues, Rosemary, & Fenel, I greatly disalow not: for it turneth away
from the head vapours & _fumes_ dimming and ouercasting the mynde. Now
the better to represse _fumes_ and propulse vapours fro{m} the Brain, it
shalbe excelle{n}t good after Supper to chaw w{i}t{h} the teeth (the
mouth being shut) a few graynes of Coriander first stieped in veneiger
wherin Maiora{m} hath bin decocted, & the{n} thinly crusted or couered
ouer w{i}t{h} Sugar. It is scarrce credible what a special co{m}moditye
this bri{n}geth to y^e memory. No lesse vertuous & soueraign is the
co{n}fection of Conserue of Quinces. Quinces called _Diacidonion_, if a
prety quantity thereof be likewise taken after meate. For it disperseth
_fumes_, & suffreth not vapours to strike vpwarde, T. Newton, _Lemnie’s
Touchstone_, ed. 1581, fol. 126. See note on l. 105 here.
l. 358. _Forced_ or _Farced_, a Forced Leg of Mutton, is to stuff or
fill it (or any Fowl) with a minced Meat of Beef, Veal, &c., with Herbs
and Spices. _Farcing_ is stuffing of any kind of Meats with Herbs or the
like; some write it _Forsing_ and Farsing. To _Farce_ is to stuff
anything. R. Holme.
l. 378. Brawn. In his chapter on Pygge, Brawne, Bacon, Andrew Borde says
of bacon as follows: “Bacon is good for Carters, and plowe men, the
which be euer labouryng in the earth or dunge; but & yf they haue the
stone, and vse to eate it, they shall synge ‘wo be to the pye!’
Wherefore I do say that coloppes and egges is as holsome for them as a
talowe candell is good for a horse mouth, or a peece of powdred Beefe is
good for a blere eyed mare. Yet sensuall appetyde must haue a swynge at
all these thynges, notwithstandynge.” _Regyment_, fol. K. iii. b.
l. 382 & l. 515. _Venison._ I extract part of Andrewe Borde’s chapter on
this in his _Regyment_, fol. K. 4, b.
¶ Of wylde Beastes fleshe.
¶ I haue gone rounde about Chrystendome, and ouerthwarte Chrystendome,
and a thousande or two and moore myles out of Chrystendome, Yet there is
not so moche pleasure for Harte and Hynde, Bucke and Doe, and for
Roo-Bucke and Doe, as is in Englande lande: and although the flesshe be
dispraysed in physicke, _I praye God to sende me parte of flesshe to
eate, physicke notwithstanding_ ... all physicions (phyon suchons,
_orig._) sayth that Venson ... doth ingendre colorycke humours; and of
trueth it doth so: Wherefore let them take the skynne, and let me haue
the flesshe. I am sure it is a Lordes dysshe, and I am sure it is good
for an Englysheman, for it doth anymate hym to be as he is: whiche is
stronge and hardy. But I do aduertyse euery ma{n}, for all my wordes,
not to kyll and so to eate of it, excepte it be lawfully, for it is a
meate for great men. And great men do not set so moche by the meate, as
they doth by the pastyme of kyllynge of it.
l. 393. _Chine_, the Back-bone of any Beast or Fish. R. Holme.
l. 397. Stock Dove, _Columba œnas_, Yarrell ii. 293.
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