Early English Meals and Manners

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Potage for þe .iij^d seruyse.

Fresch sturgeñ / breme de mere // Perche in Iely / oryent & clere //

[ whelkes,] menuse; þus we devise:

Shrympis / Fresch herynge bryled // pety perueis may not be exiled,

leche fryture,[207] a tansey gyse //

The sotelte / a mañ with sikelle in his hande, In a ryvere of watur stande /

wrapped in wedes in a werysom wyse,

hauynge no deynteithe to daunce:

þe thrid age of mañ by liklynes;

hervist we clepe hym̅, fulle of werynes