Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

and now is þe ypocras made / for to plese many a wight.

[ þe] draff of þe spicery / is good for Sewes in kychyn diȝt;

and ȝiff þow cast hit awey, þow dost þy mastir no riȝt.

Now, good son, þyne ypocras is made parfite & welle;

y wold þan ye put it in staunche & a clene vesselle,

and þe mouthe þer-off y-stopped euer more wisely & felle,

and serue hit forth with wafurs boþe in chambur & Celle.

[ The botery.]

Thy cuppes / þy pottes, þou se be clene boþe with-in & owt;

[ [T]hyne] ale .v. dayes old er þow serue it abowt,