Early English Meals and Manners

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Crevise[169] / þus wise ye must them dight:

Departe the crevise a-sondire euyñ to youre sight,

Slytt þe bely of the hyndur part / & so do ye right,

and alle hoole take owt þe fische, like as y yow behight.

Pare awey þe red skyñ for dyuers cawse & dowt,

and make clene þe place also / þat ye calle his gowt,[170]

hit lies in þe myddes of þe bak / looke ye pike it owt;

areise hit by þe þyknes of a grote / þe fische rownd abowt.

put it in a dische leese by lees[171] / & þat ye not forgete

to put vinegre to þe same / so it towche not þe mete;