[364] Het block—the block. [↑]
[365] Bergher visch: so called because it comes principally from Bergen in Norway. [↑]
[366] Wasset weder wat besadicht—the weather was somewhat milder. [↑]
[367] Als een verwulfsel van een boogh ofte kelder—like the arch of a vault or cellar. [↑]
[369] Drie Coninghen Avondt—Three Kings’ Even. The fifth of January, as being the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany, is properly “Twelfth Night”. But, in England, the vigils or eves of all feast days between Christmas and the Purification having been abolished at the Reformation (see Wheatley, Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, 1846, p. 165), this season of festivity, thus deprived of its religious character, was transferred to the evening after the feast; so that Twelfth Night was thenceforward kept on the evening of the 6th of January. [↑]
[370] Begheerden aen den schipper—requested the skipper. [↑]