Early English Meals and Manners

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hit wille voide hit awey / but looke to moche þerof not þou ete;

for þe wight of half an vnce with-owt rompney is gret.

[ Ȝiff] dyuerse drynkes of theire fumosite haue þe dissesid,

Ete an appulle rawe, & his fumosite wille be cesed;

mesure is a mery meene / whañ god is not displesed;

abstynens is to prayse what body & sowle ar plesed.

[ Take] good hede to þe wynes / Red, white / & swete,

looke euery nyȝt with a Candelle þat þey not reboyle / nor lete;

euery nyȝt with cold watur washe þe pipes hede, & hit not forgete,

& alle-wey haue a gymlet, & a dise,[30] with lynneñ clowtes smalle or grete.