When the sewer comes unto the board,
All the meat he assays at a bare word,
The pottage first with bread y-carven,[[302]]
Covers them again lest they be starven;[[303]]
With fish or flesh if they be served,
A morsel thereof for him shall be craved,
And touches the mess over all about;
The sewer it eats without a doubt.
With baken meat, if he served be so,
The lids up-reared ere he further go;