Early English Meals and Manners

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þañ if to moche sigure þer be / by discressioun ye may wete.

Thus, son, shaltow make parfite ypocras, as y the say;

but with þy mowthe to prove hit, / be þow tastynge alle-way;

let hit renne in iiij. or vj bagges[40]; gete þem, if þow may,

of bultelle clothe[41], if þy bagges be þe fynere with-owteñ nay.

Good soñ loke þy bagges be hoopid at þe mothe a-bove,

þe surere mayst þow put in þy wyne vn-to þy behoue,

þe furst bag of a galoun / alle oþer of a potelle to prove;

hange þy bagges sure by þe hoopis; do so for my loue;

And vndur euery bagge, good soñ, a basoun clere & bryght;