Both for body and soul that God you guide from grief.”
[He then begs to be taught the art of “carving of fish and flesh[[133]] after the cook’s care,” and receives detailed instructions for every sort of food, roasted, baked and fried, for the serving of soups, making of sauces and carving of fish, ll. 377-649. He then says:]
“Now, father, fair fall ye, and Christ you have in cure,
For of the nurture of carving, I suppose that I be sure.
But yet another office there is, save I dare not endure
To ask you any further, for fear of displeasure.
For to be a sewer I would I had the cunning,
Then durst I do my devoir[[135]] with any worshipful to be woning;[[136]]
Since that I know the course and the craft of carving,
I would see the sight of a sewer, what way he showeth in serving.”