P. 23. IV. 13. EST PRAETEREA MOS] The reality of this practice in England may be illustrated from Erasmus' _Christiani matrimonii Institutio_, 1526, where he describes unseemly wedding festivities. 'Mox a prandio lascivae saltationes usque ad cenam, in quibus tenera puella non potest cuiquam recusare, sed patet domus civitati. Cogitur ibi misera virgo cum ebriis, cum scelerosis ... iungere dextram, apud Britannos etiam oscula'. The Lady of Créqui, between Amiens and Montdidier, welcoming Wolsey's gentleman, George Cavendish, in July 1527, said: 'Forasmuch as ye be an Englishman, whose custom is in your country to kiss all ladies and gentlewomen without offence, and although it be not so here in this realm, yet will I be so bold to kiss you, and so shall all my maidens'. So, too, Cavendish writes of Wolsey's meeting with the Countess of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Park, after his fall: 'Whom my lord kissed bareheaded, and all her gentlewomen.' P. 85, XXII. 48, A CENIS] Cf. XXIII. 34-5, XXIV. 342. It was a recognized form of abstinence, to take no food after the midday _prandium_. In the colloquy _Ichthyophagia_, first printed in Feb. 1526, Erasmus states that in England supper was prohibited by custom on alternate days in Lent and on Fridays throughout the year (cf. IX. 96). Of the Emperor Ferdinand, when he visited Nuremberg in 1540, an observer wrote, 'Sobrius rex cena abstinuit'; and Busbecq records that it was his master's practice to work in the afternoon, 'donec cenae tempus sit--cenae, dico, non suae sed consiliariorum; nam ipse perpetuo cena abstinet, neque amplius quam semel die cibum sumit, et quidem parce'. * * * * * VOCABULARY ABBAS, an abbot. ACCUBITUS, a reclining (at meals). ADAMUSSIM, precisely (AMUSSIS, a carpenter's rule). ADLUBESCO, to be pleasing to. AGRICOLATIO, agriculture. AMARULENTUS, bitter. ANATHEMA, curse of excommunication. ANNOTAMENTUM, a note. ANNOTO, to jot down. ANTISTES, a prelate; a master. ARCHIDIACONUS, an archdeacon. ARCHIEPISCOPUS, an archbishop. ATTEMPERO, to fit, adjust. AVOCAMENTUM, a diversion, relaxation. BENEDICUS, speaking friendly words. BREVE, a Papal letter, Brief. BYSSINUS, made of linen. CAECUTIENTIA, blindness. CANONICUS, a canon, of a cathedral, secular; of a monastery, regular. CANTOR, a precentor. CAPITULUM, a chapter (of a cathedral). CARBUNCULUS, a carbuncle. CARPA, a carp. CAULETUM, a cabbage-garden. CAUPONARIA, a female inn-keeper. CEREVISIA, CERVISIA, beer. CERVISIARIUS, made of beer. CHALCOGRAPHUS, a printer. CHIROTHECA, a gauntlet. CHIRURGUS, a surgeon. CINERICIUS, similar to ashes. COLLAUDO, to praise highly. COLLUCTOR, to contend with. COLO, to strain, filter. COMES, a count, an earl. COMMISSARIUS, an agent. CONCINNO, to arrange. CONFABULO, a companion. CONFOVEO, to warm, cherish. CONSARCINO, to stitch together. CONSILESCO, to keep silence. CONSPURCATUS, polluted. CONTIONOR, to preach. CUCULLUS, a cowl.