[25] Sucking rabbits.
[26] Sweet cakes.
The iij Course.
Creme of almondes and mameny the iij course in coost,
Curlew brew, snipes, quayles, sparows, martenettes rost,
Perche in gely, Crevise[27] dewe dough, pety perveis[28] with the moost,
Quinces bake, leche dugard, Fritter sage, I speke of cost,
And soteltees fulle solemn:
that lady that conceived by the holygost,
him that distroyed the fiends boost,
presented plesauntly by the Kynges of Coleyn.
After this, delicates mo.
Blaunderelle, or pepyns with carawey in confite,
Wafers to eat, ypocras[29] to drink with delite.
Now this fest is fynysched voyd the table quyte.
[27] Cray-fish.
[28] Pies.
[29] Spiced wine.
PRIVATE WARS (September, 1469).
Source.—Paston Letters, vol. ii., No. 620.
Margaret Paston to Sir John Paston.