When a _Feast_ is made ready, the table is covered with a _Carpet_, 1. and a _Table-cloth_, 2. Cum _Convivium_ apparatur, Mensa sternitur _Tapetibus_, 1. & _Mappa_, 2. by the _Waiters_, who besides lay the _Trenchers_, 3. _Spoons_, 4. _Knives_, 5. à _Tricliniariis_, qui prætereà opponunt _Discos_ (Orbes), 3. _Cochlearia_, 4. _Cultros_, 5. with little _Forks_, 6. _Table-napkins_, 7. _Bread_, 8. with a _Salt-seller_, 9. cum _Fuscinulis_, 6. _Mappulas_, 7. _Panem_, 8. cum _Salino_, 9. _Messes_ are brought in _Platters_, 10. a _Pie_, 19. on a _Plate_. _Fercula_ inferuntur in _Patinis_, 10. _Artocrea_, 19. in _Lance_. The Guests being brought in by the _Host_, 11. wash their Hands out of a _Laver_, 12. or _Ewer_, 14. Convivæ introducti ab _Hospite_, 11. abluunt manus è _Gutturnio_, 12. vel _Aquali_, 14. over a _Hand-basin_, 13. or _Bowl_, 15. and wipe them on a _Hand-towel_, 16. super _Malluvium_, 13. aut _Pelvim_, 15. terguntque _Mantili_, 16. then they sit at the Table on _Chairs_, 17. tum assident Mensæ per _Sedilia_, 17. The _Carver_, 18. breaketh up the good Cheer, and divideth it. _Structor_, 18. deartuat dapes, & distribuit. _Sauces_ are set amongst _Roast-meat_, in Sawcers, 20. _Embammata_ interponuntur _Assutaris_ in Scutellis, 20. The _Butler_, 21. filleth _strong Wine_ out of a _Cruise_, 25. or _Wine-pot_, 26. or _Flagon_, 27. _Pincerna_, 21. infundit _Temetum_, ex _Urceo_, 25. vel _Cantharo_, 26. vel _Lagena_, 27. into _Cups_, 22. or _Glasses_, 23. which stand on a _Cupboard_, 24. in _Pocula_, 22. vel _Vitrea_, 23. quæ extant in _abaco_, 24. and he reacheth them to the _Master of the Feast_, 28. who drinketh to his _Guests_. & porrigit, _Convivatori_, 28. qui propinat _Hospitibus_. LIX. The Dressing of Line. Tractatio Lini. [Illustration] _Line_ and _Hemp_ being rated in water, and dryed again, 1. _Linum_ & _Cannabis_, macerata aquis, et siccata rursum, 1. are braked with a _wooden Brake_, 2. where the _Shives_, 3. fall down, contunduntur _Frangibulo ligneo_, 2. ubi _Cortices_, 3. decidunt then they are heckled with an _Iron Heckle_, 4. where the _Tow_, 5. is parted from it. tum carminantur _Carmine ferreo_, 4. ubi _Stupa_, 5. separatur. _Flax_ is tyed to a _Distaff_, 6. by the _Spinster_, 7. _Linum purum_ alligatur _Colo_, 6. à _Netrice_, 7. which with her left hand pulleth out the _Thread_, 8. and with her right hand turneth a _Wheel_, 9. quæ sinistra trahit _Filum_, 8. dexterâ, 12. _Rhombum_ (girgillum), 9. or a _Spindle_, 10. upon which is a _Wharl_, 11. vel _Fusum_, 10. in quo _Verticillus_, 11.