Early English Meals and Manners

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and vppoñ þo trenchurs .iiij. a trenchur sengle with-out lett;

þañ take youre loof of light payne / as y haue said ȝett,

and with the egge of þe knyfe nyghe your hand ye kett.

Furst pare þe quarters of the looff round alle a-bowt,

þañ kutt þe vpper crust / for youre souerayne, & to hym alowt.

Suffere youre parelle[70] to stond stille to þe botom / & so nyȝe y-spend owt,

so ley hym of þe cromes a quarter of þe looff Sauncȝ dowt;

Touche neuer þe loof aftur he is so tamed,

put it, [on] a platere or þe almes disch þer-fore named.

Make clene youre bord euer, þañ shalle ye not be blamed,