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Fele, 11/155, 157, perceive, taste;
24/364, ? taste or see; 23/349, understand.

Feleyly, 270/94, fellowly, sociable.

Felle, 262/21; 264/89; ? stern, or discreet.
_See_ Cold.

Fende, 82/1233, defend.

Fenel-water, p. 139.

Fenelle, the brown, 67/991.

_Fercularius_, 202/749, the Sewer.

Fere, 50/719, company; _in fere_, together.

Fere, 53/774, companion. [[83 for 53]]

Fermys, 197/596, rents;
Fr. _ferme_, a farme or lease, a thing farmed, a toll, rent, mannor
or demesne in farme. Cot.

Ferour, 197/612, 615, farrier; Fr. _Mareschal ferrant._ Cot.

Few words, use, 270/73.

Fieldfares, 165/3.

Fieldmen, how they fly at their food, 256/176.

Figs, fritters of, p. 145.

Figs, 152/21;
166/18, in Cornwall, raisins are called figs, ‘a thoomping _figgy_
pudden,’ a big plum pudding. _Spec. of Cornish Dialect_, p. 53.

Filthy talking, against, p. 239, cap. xii.

Finger, don’t point with, 270/69;
don’t mark your tale with, 279, 280/71.

Fingering, avoid it, 184/249.

Fingers, meat to be eaten with, 269/55;
nose not to be blown with, 262/19; 118/284; 210/51; [[118 for 18]]
not to be put in one’s cup, 118/272; [[118 for 18]]
or on the dish, 267/27;
keep ’em clean, 272/107;
wipe ’em on a napkin, 232/465.

Fingers, two, & a thumb, to be put on a knife, 21/320-4; 22/326.

Fingers and hands, keep still, 275/7; 276/7.

Fingers and toes to be kept still, 186/320.

Fins of fish to be cut off, 39/560.

Fire at meals in winter, p. 142.

Fire, have a good one, 169/20.

Fire in bed-room, p. 128.

Fire in hall at every meal from Nov. 1 to Feb. 2, 189/393-8.

Fire to dress by, 61/888.

Fire to be clear, 60/877.

Fire-screens for a lord, 192/462.

First course of fish, p. 166.

Fish, a dinner of, three courses, & one of fruit, p. 50.

_Ieune chair vieil poisson_: Prov. Old flesh and young fish (is fit
for the dish). Cot.

Fish, carving & dressing of, p. 37; p. 98, &c.; p. 166;
how assayed, 203/767-70;
sauces for, p. 56; 168/4;
sewynge or courses of, p. 166.

Fish, salt, 57/833.

Fish, names of, from Yarrell, p. 152; [[152 for 110]]
extracts from Laurens Andrewe on, p. 113.

Fisshe, p. 121, p. 123, the flesh or body of fish. [[122 for 123]]

Fist, close your hand in it, 264/71; keep your opinions to yourself.

Fist, not to be put on the table, 267/45.

Fit servants only to be engaged, p. 215.

Flapjack, 96/13, a fried cake.

Flasche, 65/985, dash.

Flauer, 130/11, warm & air.

Flaunes, 161/4; p. 173;
flawne, 96/12, a kind of tart;
Fr. _flans_: m. Flawnes, Custards, Egge-pies. Cotgrave. Du. _een
kees vlaeye_, a Cheese-cake or Flawne. Hexham.

Flax, wild, 69/994.

Flea, don’t scratch after one, 18/279.

Flemings, great drinkers, p. 131, note.

Flesche-mought, 18/280, louse.

Flesh, carving of, p. 26; p. 157; [[26 for 24]]
how assayed, 203/767-70;
sauces for, p. 39; [[39 for 35]]
sewynge or succession of dishes of, p. 156.

Flesh, a dinner of, p. 40. [[40 for 48]]

Flette, 201/711, room, floor.

_Fleumaticus_, 54/792; p. 104.

Flewische, 53/777, melancholy.

Flounders, 55/819; 58/842; 168/10.

Flyte, 178/54, quarrel; don’t, 270/92.

Focas or phocas, p. 118.

Follow your better, how to, 264/83-6.

Foole, 96/12, as in gooseberry-fool.

Foot-cushion, 61/882-4.

Footmen to run by ladies’ bridles, 198/621.

Foot-sheet, how to prepare it, 61/879-84; 65/956; 67/988.

Foot-sheet, the lord sits on it while he is undressed for bed,
193/488.

For, 3/34, because; 178/42, notwithstanding.

For, 18/275, against, to stop or prevent.

Forcast, 180/104, plot, scheme for.

Forder, 235/698, further.

Fordo, 180/100, done for, killed.

Forehead, to be joyful, 170/37. [[170 for 210]]

Forenoon, work in the, p. 141.

Forewryter, 77/1243, transcriber?

Forfeits to a lord, go to the treasurer, 196/577.

Forfetis, 281/52; Fr. _forfaict_: m. A crime, sinne, fault, misdeed,
offence, trespasse, transgression. Cot.

Forgive, 182/185.

Formes, 189/389; 192/464, forms, benches.

Foul tales, don’t tell, at table 255/140.

Fourpence a piece for hire of horses, 188/376.
_See_ Notes, p. 283.

Four slices in each bit of meat, 159/18.

Foxskin garments for winter, p. 139.

Franklin, a feast for one, p. 54.

Franklins, rank of, 71/1071.

Fray, 81/1210, fright.

Freke, 184/255, man, fellow; A.S. _freca_, one who is bold.

Fretoure powche, 49/700;
fruture sage, 50/708.

Friars, give way to them on pilgrimages, 186/303.

Fricacion, or rubbing of the body, is good, p. 130 n.

Fried things are fumose or indigestible, 21/358; 30/500; 32/512; 54/6.
They generally came in the last course (see _Modus Cenandi_). Du
Guez, after speaking of the English dishes in order, pottage,
beef, mutton, capons, river birds, game, and lastly, small birds,
says, “howbeit that in Spaine and in Fraunce the use [succession
at dinner] of suche metes is more to be commended than ours ...
for they begynne always with the best, and ende with the most
grosse, which they leave for the servantes, where-as we do al
the contrary,” p. 1072.

Friend, don’t mistrust or fail him, 219/3.

Friendly, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 260, line F.

Friezeadow coats for winter, p. 127. [[127 for 133]]

Fritters, 33/501; 34/511; 51/725, 737; 54/810; 157/24-6; 161/32;
163/3. [[161/32, 163/3 for 163/32, 165/3]]
_See_ Fruter, &c.

Friture, a, 51/725.

Frogs shelter themselves under the leaves of _Scabiosa_, p. 109, note
on l. 987.

Frote, 19/288, wring, twist.
Fretyn or chervyn (chorvyn), _Torqueo._ Prompt.

Frown, don’t, 173/132. [[173 for 213]]

Froyze, 96/13, pancake, or omelet.

Fruits to be eaten before dinner, 46/667-8.
But of all maner of meate, the moost daungerous is that whiche
is of fruites (_fruitz crudz_), as cheres, small cheryse
(_guingues_[2]), great cherise (_gascongnes_), strauberis,
fryberis (_framboises_), mulberis, _cornelles_,[3] preunes,
chestaynes nuts, fylberdes, walnuttes, cervyse, medlers, aples,
peres, peches, melons, _concombres_, and all other kyndes of
fruites, howbeit that youth, bycause of heate and moystnesse,
doth dygest them better than age dothe. _Du Guez’s Introductorie_,
p. 1073-4.
fryberis (_framboises_), mulberis

[Footnote 2: _Guisnes_: f. A kind of little, sweet, and long
cherries; tearmed so because at first they came out of Guyenne;
also any kind of Cherries. Cotgrave.]

[Footnote 3: _Corneille_, a Cornill berrie; _Cornillier_, The long
cherrie, wild cherrie, or Cornill tree. Cotgrave.]

Frumenty potage, 25/391, furmity.

Frumenty, 37/547; 38/549;
with venesoun, 33/518.

Frusshe, p. 151, carve.

Fruter Crispin & Napkin, p. 96.

Fruture viant, sawge & pouche, 33/501, ? meat, sage, & poached
fritters.

Fruturs, 34/511;
Fruyters, 161/32, fritters; [[161 for 163]]
recipes for, p. 145.

Fryture, a, 51/737, fritter.

Fuel, a groom for, 189/385.

Full belly and hungry, 265/17.

Fumose, 23/353, fume-creating, indigestible.

Fumositees, p. 23-4.

Fumosities, p. 23; p. 94; 151/4; p. 158, indigestibilities,
indigestible things creating noxious fumes in the belly that
ascend to the brain;
such to be set aside, 25/396.

Fumosity, 8/105; p. 86.

Furs to be brushed every week, 64/943.

Fustian, 63/922, a cloth over and under the sheets of a bed.

Fustyan, whyte, 130/2.

Fygges, 5/74; p. 84, figs.

Fyle, 191/435, fill?

Fylour, 191/447, a rod on which the bed-curtains hung.
“_Fylour_ looks like _felloe_, G. _felge_, which is explained as
something bent round; it would apply to the curtain-rod round the
top of the bed.” Wedgwood.

Fylynge, 263/52, dirtying;
A.S. _fúlian_, to foul; _fýlnes_, foulnes; _fýlð_, filth.

Fynne, p. 151, cut up.

Fyr, 184/232, further.

Fyr hous, 194/514, privy?

Fysegge, p. 216, No. x, phiz, face.

Fytt, 213/806, section of a poem. [[213 for 204]]

Fytte, 67/980, while, time.

Fyxfax, to be taken out of the neck, 28/444.

Gabriel, angel, 265/5; 266/7; 148/692. [[148 for 48]]

Galantyne sauce, 40/569; 58/840; 167/27, 29; 168/9.

Galantyne, to be mixed with lamprey pie, 44/634;
recipe for, p. 100.

Galingale, p. 44, last line but one; p. 100.
Galingale: Sp. _Júncia avellanda_, _Júnca odoróso_, galingale.
--Minsheu. [[entry added by editor]]

Gallants, shortcoated, denounced, 20/305.

Galleymawfrey, 96/14, a dish.

Gallowgrass, p. 124.

Game, some, to be played before going to business, p. 131.

Gamelyn sauce, 36/539; 37/541.

Gaming, the fruits of, p. 234, cap. vi.

Ganynge, 19/294, yawning: Ganynge or Ȝanynge, _Oscitus_. Prompt.
I gane, or gape, or yane, _ie baille_. Palsgrave, _ib._ “I _yane_,
I gaspe or gape. _Je baille._” Palsgrave.

Gape not, 19/294;
when going to eat, 272/65.

Gaping is rude, 211/77.

_Garcio_, 191/434-5, groom (of the chamber).

Gardevyan, 80/1202, a safe for meat.

Gares, 190/420, causes.

Garlic, 58/843.

Garlic, the sauce for roast beef and goose, 36/536.

Garlic, green, with goose, 164/2.

Gastarios, a fish, p. 118.

Gate, on coming to a lord’s, what to do, 177/5. See also 252/58.

Gaze about, don’t, 192/175.

Gele, p. 49, note 2;
gelly, 166/11, jelly.

Gelopere sauce, 165/4; p. 173.

Gentilmen welle nurtured, 71/1038.

Gentilwommen, rank of, 71/1039.

Gentlemen, one property of, 220/18.

Gentlemen of the chamber, 191/433.

Gentlemen’s table in hall, 178/33.

Gentyllis, 273/93, gentlefolk.

Geson, 54/803, scarce.

Gesse, 230/350, guest.

Gestis, 79/1189, guests.

Getting-up in the morning, a lord, how dressed, p. 61.

Gild, 25/231, gilt plate.

Ginger, white and green, 5/75;
colombyne, valadyne, and maydelyn, 10/131-2;
columbyne, 52/758;
green, 152/21.

Ginger sauce with lamb, kid, &c., 36/537.

Ginger, 58/847;
with pheasant, 164/19.

Girdle, 64/907.

Girls, young, pick their noses, 186/328.

Girls: home-education, xxv, xv, &c. [[entry added by editor]]

Glaucus, a white fish, p. 118.

Glorious (boasting), don’t be too, p. 258, p. 260, line G.

Glosand, 186/313, lying.

Glose, 183/199, deceit, lie.

Glosere, 268/59. Fr. _flateur_, a flatterer, _glozer_, fawner,
soother, foister, smoother; a claw-backe, sycophant, pickthanke.
Cot.

Gloves to be taken off on entering the hall, 177/16.

Gloves, perfumed, 132/8-9.
Cp. in the account of Sir John Nevile, of Chete, in _The Forme of
Cury_, p. 171, “for a pair of perfumed Gloves, 3_s._ 4_d._; for
a pair of other Gloves, 4_d._”

Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of, 79/1177; 82/1230; p. lxxxii.

Glowtynge, 18/281, looking sulky, staring.
Halliwell. Sw. _glutta_; Norse, _glytta_, _gletta_, look out of
the corner of the eye. Wedgwood.

Gnastynge, 20/301, note 5.

Gnaw bones, don’t, 232/457.

Goatskin gloves, 132/9.

Goben, 39/566, cut into lumps.

Gobone, 167/2, cut in lumps; 167/29, a piece.

Gobyn, 41/580; p. 99, gobbets.

Gobyns, 45/638, lumps, pieces.

‘God be here!’ say on entering, 270/86.

Good cheer, make, at table, 269/53, be jolly.

Good manners, learn, 232/507.

‘Good Morning;’ say it to all you meet, 266/20.

Goodly, 62/908, nattily.

Goose, how to carve, 26/402; p. 163, last line but one;
garlic its sauce, 36/536;
roast, 54/801; p. 222.

Goshawk, p. 103, note on Heironsew.

Gown, a man’s, 62/904.

Gowt of a crayfish, 43/607.

Grace, 46/663,
the prayer before dinner, 229/305-322;
to be said by the Almoner, 221/729.

Grace after dinner, sit still till it’s said, 271/82;
pages to stand by their lord while it’s said, 257/197.

Gradewable, p. 170, graduated, have taken degrees.

Gramed, 23/348, angered, vexed.

Granat, 141/11, a garnet.

Grapes, 6/77; 46/668; 152/21.

Gravelle of beeff or motoun, 34/519.

Gravus, a fish, p. 118. [[120 for 118]]

Graynes, 9/123; 10/137, 141; p. 91.
Fr. _Maniguet_, the spice called Graines, or graines of Paradise.
Cot.

Graynes of paradice, 151/32.

Graytly, 61/886; entirely, quite.

Grayue, 196/576, 589, 597, reeve, outdoor steward.

Greable, 13/192, suitable.

Great birds, 49/698.

Grece (fat), hen of, 158/29.

Green cheese, p. 84, n. to l. 74.

Green fish, 58/851; 188/8, 29, ling.
Fr. _Moruë_: f. The Cod, or Greenefish (a lesse and dull-eyed kind
whereof is called by some, the Morhwell). _Moruë verte._
Greenefish. _Moruyer. Poissonnier moruyer._ A Fishmonger that
sells nothing but Cod, or Greenefish. Cot.

Green sauce, 58/851; 168/13, 14.

Green wax, accounts to be briefed with, 192/536.

Greet the men you meet, 200/251.

Greithe, 61/880, ready.

Greke, 9/120; 86/31; p. 90, No. 12, a sweet wine.

Grene metis, 8/97, green vegetables.

Greve, 81/1214. Fr. _grief_, trouble.

Greyhounds fed on brown bread, 198/628; p. 84, note on l. 51;
each has a bone, &c., 198/633.
“_Eau & pain, c’est la viande du chien._ Prov.: Bread and water
is diet for dogs.” Cot.

Greyn, 62/914, a crimson stuff or cloth.

Grin, don’t, 269/57; 277, 278/29.

Grisynge, 20/301, grinding.

Groan not, 19/298.

Groggynge, 18/273, grumbling.
Grutchyn, gruchyn, _murmuro_. Prompt. _Gruger_, to grudge, repine,
mutter. Cot.

Grone fische, 38/555.

Groom of the King may sit with a knight, 75/1122-5; 204/1.
[[204 for 172]]

Grooms of the Chamber, their duties, p. 191-2.

Groos, 29/461, large.

Grossetest, Bp., his Household Statutes, p. 207-10.

Grouellynge, _adv._ 129/8, 12, face downwards.

Growelle of force, 34/519; p. 97.

Gruell of befe or motton, 159/27.

Grumbling of servants to be put down, p. 208.

Gudgeons, 55/819; p. 118.

Guns blasting, (breaking wind,) to be avoided, 20/304.
The parallel passage in Sloane MS. 2027 (fol. 42, last line), is.
“And all_e_ wey be ware thyn ars be natte carpyng.”

Gurdylstode, 191/442, girdlestead, waist.

Gurnard, 40/574; 51/725; 58/849;
baked, 198/9.

Ȝyme, 186/304, attend to, wish, like.

Gymlet, 5/67, 71.

Gynger, 3 kinds of, 10/131-2; p. 91.

Haberdine, ‘Mouschebout: m. The spotted Cod whereof Haberdine is
made.’ Cot.

Hable, 254/111, fitting, due.

Had, 274/149, ? held in the memory.

Hadde-y-wyste, 264/72; vain after-regret, ‘had I but known how it
would have turned out.’

Haddock, 58/845, 200/11.

Haddock, how to carve, 39/576.

Haft of a knife, 200/675.

Hair, don’t scratch, for lice, 18/280;
to be combed, 173/125. [[173 for 213]]

Hake, 58/845; p. 107; 166/31.

Hakenay buttur, 39/559.

Halata, p. 118.

Hale, 253/101, A.S. _hál_, healthy.

Half-penny; farrier paid one a day, 197/616;
hunter one for every hound, 198/629.

Halke, 2/24; A.S. _hylca_, hooks, turnings. Somner.

Hall, who should not keep it (? meaning), 72/1048;
who seated in, 217/19-22.

Hall, head of the house to eat in, p. 209, No. xv. [[209 for 215]]

Halybut, a fish, 41/584; 39/735; 166/12; 167/11.

Hammering in speech is bad, 212/109.

Hand to be cleaned when you blow your nose in it, 199/90;
put it on your stomach to warm the latter, p. 129.

Handkerchief for the nose, 210/49;
‘Jan. 1537-8, my ladys grace lanes handekerch_ers_ silk_ys_.’
P. P. Exp. of Princess Mary, p. 54.

Handle nothing while you are spoken to, 253/83.

Hands and feet, keep ’em quiet, 216/317. [[216 for 186]]

Hands, to be washed, 277, 278/22;
before meals, 187/343, 201/713-21;
to be wiped before taking hold of the cup, 255/156.

Hands to be clean at meals, 263/41, 51; 265/9; 266/13.

Hang in hand, 183/199; be delayed.

Hanging down your head is wrong, 213/130.

Hard cheese, the virtues of, 150/29. _See_ Cheese. [[150 for 152]]

Hare, 34/517; chive sauce to, _see_ Ceuye.

Harington, Sir John; the Dyet for every day, p. 138-9;
on Rising and going to Bed, p. 140-1.

Harm of others, don’t talk, at table, 180/102.

Harpooning whales, p. 116.

Harts-skin garments to be worn in summer, p. 139.

Harvest, the device of, 52/754.

Hastily, don’t eat, 265/19.

Hasty, don’t be, 279, 280/78.

Hat, 62/909.

Haylys, 184/253, salute.
O.N. _heilsa_, Dan. _hilsa_, to salute, to cry hail to. Wedgwood.

Head and hands, keep quiet, 253/80.

Head, don’t hang it, 255/148;
don’t cast it down, 276/16;
don’t bend it too low, 193/330.

Heads of field- and wood-birds unwholesome; they eat toads, p. 197-8.
[[197-8 for 165-6]]

Headsheet, 63/925; 65/950; 66/965.

Hede, 271/91, host, master or lord of a house at a meal.

Hedge-hogs’ countenauces, 210/43.

Heelfull_e_, 250/10, health-ful, help-ful.

Heere, 35/524;
Sloane MS. 1315 reads _hele_, health.

Heironsew (the heron), 49/696; p. 103. _See_ Heron.

Hele, 199/655, cover.

Helle, 254/131, ? not ‘clear, A.S. _helle_,’ but from _hyldan_, to
incline, bend, and so pour.

Help all, be ready to, 183/193.

Help others from your own dish, p. 217, No. xiv.

Hemp, the names of, p. 124;
its advantages, p. 125-6.

Hen, fat, how to carve, 26/409; 34/517.

Henchman, p. ii.; Mayster of the henshmen--_escvier de pages
dhonnevr._ Palsgrave.

Hende, 254/122, hands.

Henderson’s Hist. of Ancient and Modern Wines, p. 87, &c.

Her, 185/294, higher.

Herald of Arms, 71/1035;
king or chief herald, l. 1036.

Herber, 190/427, lodge, accommodate.

Herbe benet, 68/993.

Herbe John, 68/992.

Herbs in sheets to be hung round the bath-room, 67/977.

Herne, 2/24, corner.

Heron, to dysmembre or carve, p. 162. _See_ Heyron-sewe.

Heronsew, 157/5;
to be cooked dry, 165/20.

‘I wol nat tellen of her straunge sewes,
Ne of her swannes, ne here _heron-sewes_.’

Chaucer, March. Tale, l. 60, v. 2, p. 357, ed. Morris.

Herring, L. Andrewe on the, p. 114.

Herrings, baked, 50/722;
fresh, 58/844;
fresh, broiled, 52/748;
salt, 57/832.

Herrings, how to carve and serve, 38/550-3.

Herrings, white, or fresh, how to serve up, 45/641-5, 166/28.

Hethyng, 185/266, contempt.

Heyhove, 68/993, a herb.

Heyriff, 68/993, a herb.

Heyron-sewe, 36/539; p. 97, the heron: how to carve it, 27/422.

Hiccup not, 19/298.

High name, the, 181/152, God?

Highest place, don’t take unless bidden, 187/347.

Hit, _for_ his, 29/456.

Hith{e}, 53/783, it.

Hold your hand before your mouth when you spit; 272/115-18.

Hole of the privy to be covered, 64/933.

Holy water, take it at the church-door, 182/160.

Holyhock, 67/991.

Holyn, 189/399. ?

Hom, 185/273, them.

Homes, servants to visit their own, p. 207, No. xi. [[207 for 217]]

Honest, 269/74, fitting, proper.

Honeste, 65/954, propriety, decency.

Honey, not clarified, used for dressing dischmetes, 34/514.

Hood, a man’s, 62/909.

Hood, take it off, 217/16. [[217 for 177]]

Hoopid, 12/167, made round like a hoop.

Hor, 187/272, their.

Hornebeaks, p. 97, note on l. 533.

Horse-hire, 4d. a day, 188/375.

Horsyng, 195/564, being horsed, horses.

Hose, p. 108;
to be rubbed, 226/91.
Du. _koussen_, Stockins or Hosen; _opper-koussen_, Hose or Breeches;
_onder koussen_, Nether-stockins; _boven koussen_, Upper-hosen,
or Briches. Hexham.

Hosen, 130/10; 168/31.

Hosyn, 60/873; 62/895-8; 65/961; p. 108, breeches.

_Hostiarius_, 190/430-1, usher.

Hot dishes, a dodge to prevent them burning your hands, 202/757-60.

Hot wines, p. 83, in extract from A. Borde.
[[Citation could not be identified.]]

Houndfisch, 41/584; p. 99; 56/827; 58/844; 167/11, dogfish.

‘He lullith her, he kissith hir ful ofte;
With thikke bristlis on his berd unsofte,
Lik to the skyn of _houndfisch_, scharp as brere,
(For he was schave al newe in his manere,)
He rubbith hir about hir tendre face.’
Chaucer, Marchaundes Tale, v. 2, p. 223, ed. Morris.

Houndes-fysshe, mortrus of, 168/2.

Household bread, 4/55;
to be 3 days old, 152/6.

Housholde, Babees that dwelle in, 251/45;
Forewords, pp. ii., x., xi., &c.

Howndes Dayes, p. 118, Cap. xv., dog-days.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 82/1230; App. to Russell Pref.

Hunte, 198/629, huntsman; pl.,

Huntes, 198/628, huntsmen.

Hure, 24/376, hood, cap.

Hurtilberyes, 7/82; p. 85, n. to l. 81, 152/24.

Husbands, the duty of, 237/8.

Hyacinth, 141/11, jacinth, a precious stone.

Hyȝt, 183/201, promised, vowed.

Jack and Jill, don’t chatter with, 271/90.

Iangelynge, 253/94, chattering, (don’t be), p. 258, p. 261, line I.

Iangle (chatter), don’t, 252/68; 229/266.

Iangylle, 271/90, chatter;
‘iangelyn, or iaveryn, iaberyn, _garrulo blatero_.’ P. Parv.

_Janitor_, 188/360-1, the porter.

Iapynge, 253/95, joking.

Iardyne, almond, 52/744.

Idle, don’t be, 268/32.

Jealousy, hate it, p. 258, p. 260, line G.

Jelies, 34/511;
iely, 49/693.

Jelly, 34/511; 35/520; 51/731; 56/825; p. 97.

Iestis, 59/858, proceedings, dinners.

Iettis, p. 261, l. N, fashions.

Iettynge, p. 261, l. I, showing-off,

‘I _iette_ w^t facyon and countenaunce to set forthe myselfe,
_ie braggue_.’ Palsgrave, in Way.

Iettynge, 20/300, note 3.
Fr. _Poste_ a rakehell, or Colledge-seruant, thats euer gadding or
_ietting_ abroad. Cot.

Ignorance, the evils of, 228/230.

Imbrowe, 255/157, dirty, soil.

Improberabille, 54/795, very proper?

Impytous, p. 132, impetuous (last line).

Infect, 83/1249.
Fr. _infecter_, to infect; poison; depraue, corrupt. Cot.

Ingredyentes, 11/144, materials.

Inhumanitie, 225/155, discourtesy.

Interrupt no one, 282/69. [[282 for 279]]

Intrippe, 283/69, interrupt. [[283 for 280]]

John the Baptist’s day to Michaelmas, feasts from, p. 164.

John, Duke, a yeoman in his house got a reward, 199/647.

Iolle of þe salt sturgeoun, 44/622; p. 99; 167/23.

Ioncate, 7/82; p. 85; 152/28, junket, orig. cream-cheese made in
wicker-baskets, from L. _juncus_, a rush. Mahn. ‘_Junkets_, Cakes
and Sweetmeats with which Gentlewomen entertain one another, and
Young-men their Sweethearts; any sort of delicious Fare to feast
and make merry with.’ Philipps.

Iowtes, p. 160, last line; p. 171. [[171 for 173]]

Irweue, 85/3.
? Fr. _Mulette_ ... the maw of a Calfe, which being dressed is
called the Renet-bag, _Ireness_-bag, or Cheslop-bag. Cot.

Judges, the duty of, 24½.

Iusselle, 35/520; 54/805; 159/28;
recipe for, p. 145.

Justices, the under, rank of, 70/1018; 72/1061.

Ivory comb, 62/902.

Karle, 267/48, churl, poor man.

Karpyng, 263/62, talking. Carpynge, _Loquacitas, collocutio._ Prompt.

Kater, 196/580, cater, provide.

Kepe, 202/760, take care.

Kepyng (stingy), don’t be, p. 258, p. 261, line K.

Kercheff, 61/885.

Kerpe, 272/120, ? is it complain, or only talk, chatter;
‘carpyn or talkyn, _fabulor_, _confabulor_, _garrulo_,’ Pr. Parv.
‘to carpe, (Lydgate) this is a farre northen verbe, _cacqueter_.’
Palsgrave, _ib._ note. Or is it break wind? _See_ Guns. The Sloane
MS. 2027, fol. 42, has for l. 304 of Russell, p. 20, ‘And alle wey
be ware thyn ars be natte _carpyng_.’

Keruynge of flesshe, p. 157;
of fysshe, p. 166.

Kerver, termes of a, p. 149. [[149 for 151]]

Keuer, 17/265-6, cover, put covers or dishes for.

Kickshaw, 96/14, a tart.

Kid, 49/694; 54/807;
with ginger sauce, 46/537;
how to carve, 28/441.

Kidney of fawn, &c. to be served, 159/9.

Kind, be always, 183/195.

Kind, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line K.

King ranks with an emperor, 70/1007; 72/1045.

King’s Messengers, 171/31.

King’s officers, 17½5.

King’s servants to be received as one degree higher than they are,
75/1117-27.

Knaves’ tricks, beware of, p. 258, p. 261, line K.

Knee, don’t put yours under other men’s thighs, 180/119.

Kneel on one knee to men, on both to God, 182/163-6.

Kneel, the Ewerer to do so, on giving water to any one, 199/653.

Kneel to your lord on one knee, 252/62.

Knife, don’t play with your, 279, 280/54;
don’t put it in your mouth, 256/162; 180/113;
take salt with it, 272/97. (When were saltspoons introduced?)

Knife, don’t pick your teeth with, 180/94.

Knives to be clean, 279, 280/58;
to be sharp, 263/42;
to be clean and sharp, 255/137; 272/119;
to be wiped on a napkin, not on the tablecloth, 22/332.

Knives to be put up after meals, 257/191.

Knives, for bread, 4/50-2;
for the table, _ib._, l. 63.

Knives, the Butler’s three, p. 152;
the lord’s, 200/675.

Knight, the rank of a, 70/1016; 72/1058.

Knop, 192/453, knob, bunch?

Kommende, 253/104,
this may possibly be like 254/120, commend (_q.v._) a cup to you to
drink;
but 270/71, ‘sey welle’, looks as if praise were meant.

Kymbe, 61/886, comb.

Kyn, 217/13, birth. [[217 for 177]]

Kynraden, 185/279; A.S. _cynnryne_, a family course, parentage.

Labour not after meals, p. 136.

Lace- or buckle-shoes, 62/896.

Ladies, how to behave to, 264/73.

Ladies soon get angry, 165/8.

Lady of low degree has her lord’s estate or rank, 171/19.

Lakke, 269/76, blame; Du. _laecken_, to vituperate, blame, or
reproach. Hexham.

Lamb, 54/807; p. 106;
how to carve, 28/441.

Lamb and ginger sauce, 36/537.

Lambur, 193/480.
? has it anything to do with Fr. _lambrequin_, the point of a
labell, or Labell of a file in Blazon;
_Lambel_, a Labell of three points, or a File with three Labells
pendant (Cot.). Ladies wore and wear ornaments somewhat of this
kind.

Lambskins, p. 131.

Lamprey, 50/724; 58/840; p. 119.
See Henry V.’s commission to _Guillielmus de Nantes de Britanniâ_ to
supply him and his army with Lampreys up to Easter, 1418. From the
Camp at Falaise, Feb. 6. _Rymer_, ix. 544.

Lamprey, names of a, p. 99, bottom.

Lamprey pasty, 167/25.

Lampreys, fresh, pie of, how to serve, 44/630-45; p. 99.

Lamprey, salt, how to carve, 39/566; 167/2.

Lampron, names of a, p. 100.

Lampurnes, 50/719; 55/820; 58/848;
bake, 51/725;
rost, 51/737; 41/588, lamperns.

Landlords, their duty, 242/13.

Lands of a lord, his Chancellor oversees, 196/571.

Lapewynk, 37/542; p. 98, lapwing.

Lappes, 191/452, wraps.

Lapwing, how to carve, 27/417; p. 158, last line.

Lark (the bird), 28/437, 37/542, 49/698, p. 103.

Laske, 7/91, loose (in the bowels).

Last, 15/227, uppermost.

Laugh, don’t, with your mouth full, 179/67; 272/109.

Laugh loudly, don’t, 264/75.

Laugh not, 269/57;
not too often, 183/215.

Laughing always is bad, 212/85.

Lauour, 16/232, washing-basin?.
_Lavacrum_, a lavour, Reliq. Ant. i. 7. _Esguiere_: f. An Ewer,
a Lauer. Cotgrave (see Halliwell).

Law, how kept, 268/53.

Law, men of, their duty, 242/11.

Law, 187/330, low.

Lawes, 183/217, laughs.

Lawnde, 2/16, and note.

Lay the Cloth, how to, 13/187; 154/23.

Leaking of wine pipes, 8/110; 153/10.

Lean not on the table, 255/146.

Learning, its roots bitter, its fruits pleasant, 228/202.

Leche, a, 51/725, 737; 54/810.

Leche dugard, 50/708.

Leche fryture, 52/749.
see _Leschefrites_, _leschefrayes_, in the index to
the _Ménagier de Paris_. [[“see” reference added by editor]]

Leche Lombard, 48/689; 157/2. See ‘Lumber’ in _Nares_. The recipe in
_Forme of Cury_, p. 36, is

Take rawe Pork, and pulle of the skyn, and pyke out þe skyn [&]
synew{is}, and bray the Pork in a mort{er} w{i}t{h} ayreñ rawe;
do þ{er}to sug{ur}, salt, raysoñs, corañce, dat{is} mynced, and
powdo{ur} of Pep{er}, powdo{ur} gylofre, a{nd} do it i{n} a bladder,
and lat it seeþ til it be ynowhȝ. and whan it is ynowh, kerf it,
leshe it in likenesse of a peskodde, and take grete raysoñs and
grynde hem in a mort{er}, drawe hem up wiþ rede wyne, do þ{er}to
mylke of almãnd{is}, colo{ur} it with sañders a{nd} safroñ and do
þ{er}to powdo{ur} of pep{er} a{nd} of gilofre, and boile it. and
whan it is iboiled, take powdo{ur} of canel and gyng{er}, and
te{m}p{er} it up with wyne. and do alle þise thyng{is} togyd{er}.
and loke þat it be rẽnyns, and lat it not seeþ aft{er} that it is
cast togyder, {and} s{er}ue it forth.

Leche, whyte, 157/7.

Leeches, 34/516, strips of meat, &c., dressed in sauce or jelly.

Lees, 26/407; 30/466, strips; 43/610, slices.

Leessez, 33/504; 34/546, strips of meat in sauce.

Lede, 179/78, leaved, left.

Left hand only to touch food, 22/329.

Legate, 70/1013;
the pope’s, l. 1023.

Legh, 191/441, ?_law_, hill, elevation, A.S. _hlæw_;
or _lea_ land, ground.

Legs not to be set astraddle, 20/299.

Legs of great birds, the best bits, 26/403, 410; 27/426; 30/471.

Lele, 196/593; loyally?, justly.

Lemman, 44/635, dear young friend; A.S. _leof_, dear.

Lengthe, 31/488, lengthen.

Lered, 65/956, taught, told.

Lerynge, 56/831, teaching.

Lesche, _v. tr._, p. 151, slice.

Lessynge, 153/17, remedy, cure.

Lesynge, 9/116, curing, restoring to good condition.

Lete, 8/110; p. 86, leak.

Letters, the use of, 228/186.

Leues, 202/741, remains.

Leuys, 203/787, remains.

Lewd livers to dread, 239/933.

-lewe, _see_ drunkelewe.

Liar, don’t be one, 19/292; 183/213.

Liberal, don’t be too, 260/11, p. 263, line L.
[[260 for 258, 263 for 261]]

Lice, 18/280; p. 93.

Lick not the dish, 19/295.

Licoure, 25/382, sauce, dressing.

Lie not, 270/75.

Lie far from your bedfellow, 186/297.

Lies, 9/116, deposit, settlement.

Light payne, 22/339, fine bread for eating.

Lights to be put above the Hall chimney or fire-place, p. 192/467-8.

Line of the blood royal, 171/24.

Linen, body-, to be clean, 60/876.

Linen, used to wipe the nether end, 64/935.

Ling (the fish), 38/555; p. 98; p. 58, note 8; 59/852; 168/6.

Lining of a jacket, the best, p. 131.

Lips; don’t put ’em out as if you’d kiss a horse, 211/73.

Lips, keep ’em clean, 277, 278/34.

Lis, 3/31, relieve. ‘ac _a-lys_ us of yfele,’ but deliver us from
evil, Lord’s Prayer. Rel. Ant.i. 204.

Listen to him who speaks to you, 187/331.

Lite, 56/830, little.

Litere, 191/435, litter, straw or rushes for beds.

Livery of candles, Nov. 1 to Feb. 2, 205/839. Fr. _La Livrée des
Chanoines._ their liverie, or corrodie; their stipend, exhibition,
dailie allowance in victuals or money. Cot.

Loaf, small, to be cut in two, 202/735.

Loaves, _two_ to be brought when bread is wanted, 203/781-4.

Lobster. ‘Finallie of the legged kinde we have not manie, neither
haue I seene anie more of this sort than the _Polypus_ called in
English the lobstar, crafish or creuis, and the crab, [q.v.].
_Carolus Stephanus_ in his _maison rustique_, doubted whether
these lobstars be fish or not; and in the end concludeth them to
grow of the purgation of the water as dooth the frog, and these
also not to be eaten, for that they be strong and verie hard of
digestion.’ _Harrison_, v. i. p. 224-5.

Lokere, 268/60, ? not look, oversee, superintend, and so oppress;
but from Dutch _Loker_, an allurer, or an inticer, _locken_, to
allure or entise, Hexham; _lokken_, to allure, bait. Sewel.

Lombard, leche, 48/689; 157/2.
_See_ Leche Lombard. ‘Frutour _lumbert_ ... Lesshe _lumbert_.’
Oxford dinner, 1452. Reliq. Ant.i. 88.

Look steadily at whoever talks to you, 252/65.

London bushel, 20 loaves out of a, 198/625.

London, Mayor of, 76/1137.

Londoner, an ex-Mayor, 71/1025; 73/1067.

Long hair is unseemely, 213/126.

Long pepper, 153/33.

Longe wortes, 34/518, ? carrots, parsnips, &c.

Lord, a, how dressed, p. 61-2; p. 168;
how undressed and put to bed, p. 65-6; p. 169;
his pew and privy, p. 63;
washing before dinner, 254/129;
after, 257/199. _See_ Hands, &c.

Lord, how to behave before one, 262/3;
how to serve one at table, p. 275-6.

Lord, let yours drink first, 269/69.

Lord or lady when talking, not to be interrupted, 254/106.

Lordes nurrieris, 71/1039; p. 110.

Lords’ beds, 191/443.

Lorely, 181/135, loosely about? A.S. _leóran_, _leósan_, to go forth,
away, or forward, leese, lose.

Lothe (be loth to lend), p. 258, p. 261, line L.

Lothe, 178/48, be disgusted.

Loud talking and laughing to be avoided, 19/290-1.

Loued, 197/600, allowed, given credit for.

Love God and your neighbour, 268/51.

Love, the fruits of, 237/815.

Lowly, be, 229/278.

Lowne, 209/12, lout.

Lowt, 41/579, lie.

Lowte, 262/8, do obeisance, bow.

‘I lowte, I gyue reuerence to one, _Ie me cambre, Ie luy fais la
reuerence._’ Palsgrave, in Way.

A.S. _hlútan_, to bow.

Lumpischli, 276/16, ‘to be lumpish, _botachtigh zijn: botachtigh_,
Rudish, Blockish, or that hath no understanding.’ Hexham.

Lyer, 146/11, ? the cook’s _stock_ for soup; glossed ‘a mixture’ by
Mr Morris in _Liber Cure Cocorum_. And make a _lyoure_ of brede
and blode, and _lye_ hit þerwithe ... _ib._ p. 32, in ‘Gose in
a Hogge pot.’ ?Lat. _liquor_, or Fr. _lier_ to soulder, vnite,
combine. Cot.

Lyft, p. 151, carve.

Lying, against, p. 239, cap. xiii.

Lykorous, 19/292, lip-licking?

Lynse wolse, 132/5, linsey-woolsey.

Lynd, 270/61, Du. _lindt_, soft, milde, or gentle. Hex.

Lyour, 191/446, a band.

Lytulle of worde, 178/34, sparing in speech.

Lyvelode, 74/1087-8, property.

Lyueray, 188/371, pl. lyuerés, 189/395, allowances of food, &c.
See _Livery_.

Lyuerey, p. 216, No. vii. servant’s dress.
Fr. _livrée_ ... One’s cloth, colours, or deuice in colours, worn by
his seruants or others. Cotgrave.

Mackerel, 39/559; p. 40; p. 98; [[41 for 40]]
salt, 57/834;
how to carve, 40/575-6.

Mackeroone, 96/14, a tart.

Magistrates, their duty, 242/18.

Make, 274/143, stroke?

_Malencolicus_, p. 54; p. 104.

Malice, 237/783, 817.

Mallard, 164/28;
how to carve it, 26/402; 158/25.

Mallard, &c., how they get rid of their stink, 165/32-3.

Maluesy, 153/20;
Malvesyn, 9/120; p. 86; p. 90, No. 12; p. 93, No. 6;
the sweet wine Malmsey.

Malyke or Malaga, figs of, 166/18.

Mameny, 49/705; 52/744;
recipe at p. 145.

Manchet, 198/627, fine bread.

Manerable, 75/1113, well-trained.

Manerly, 13/195; 63/923, neatly.

Maners, 197/601, dwelling-houses, mansions, Fr. _manoir_, a Mansion,
Mannor, or Mannor-house. Cot.

Manger, a horse’s, 197/610.

Mangle your food, don’t, 256/176-9.
‘I mangle a thing, I disfygure it with cuttyng of it in peces or
without order. _Je mangonne_ ... and _je mutille_. You have
mangylled this meate horrybly, it is nat to sette afore no
honest men (_nul homme de bien_) nowe.’ Palsgrave.

Manners maketh man, 263/34;
are more requisite than playing, 233/513.

Man’s arms, the use of, 268/38.

Mansuetely, 61/887.
Fr. _mansuet_, gentle, courteous, meeke, mild, humble. Cot.

Mantle, 65/957, cloak or dressing-gown.

Mantle of a whelk, 44/625.

Many words are tedious, 252/75.

Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, bless yourself by, 181/151.

Marquess and Earl are equal, 70/1012; 72/1049.

Marshal of the Hall, p. 69-78, p. 170-2;
his duties, p. 188-90;
arrests rebels, 189/381;
seats men by their ranks, 189/403;
has a short wand, 187/356;
attends to all bed-chambers except the lord’s, 190/427-30.

Marshal or usher comes up to a guest, 178/30.

Marshallynge, 78/1165, arranging of guests.

Martyn, skin or fur of, for garments, p. 139.

Martynet, 157/9; 159/7, the martin (bird).

Mary, the Virgin, 48/691.

Mase, 183/216, makes.

Mass, hear one daily, 266/17.

Mass heard by the nobles every morning, but not by business men,
p. 130.

Master, don’t go before your, 185/281;
don’t waste his goods, 4/47; 219/9.

Master, don’t strive with your, 183/226.
_Iamais ne gaigne qui plaide à son seigneur; ou, qui procede à son
Maistre._ Pro. No man euer throue by suing his Lord or Maister;
(for either God blesses not so vndutifull a strife, or successe
followes not in so vnequal a match.) Cot.

Master of a craft sits above the warden, &c., 78/1159.

Master of the Rolls, rank of, 70/1017; 72/1060.

Masters, duties of, p. 241/6.

Mastic, to be chewed before you rest, p. 139.

Maistirs of the Chauncery, rank of, 71/1027; 73/1068.

Mawes, 178/55, mocks; 187/341.

Mawmeny, recipe for, p. 145.

Maydelyn_e_ gynger, 10/132.

Mayor of Calais, 70/1020; 72/1064.

Mayor of London, 70/1014; 72/1051.

Mays, 194/533, makes.

Mead, p. 107.

Meals, 3 a day to be eaten, p. 135;
only 2 a day, p. 141.

Measure is treasure, 232/477.

Mede, 181/135, reward; _for no kyn mede_, on no account whatever.

Medelus (meddlesome), don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line M.

Medicinable bath, how to make, p. 67-9.

Meek, don’t be too, like a fool, 182/179.

Meene, 261/15, mean, middle course.
_See_ Moderation.

Melle, 268/56, mix, meddle.

Men must work, 268/31.

Mené, smaller, 197/604, lower officers of the household.

Menewes in sewe of porpas, 166/6;
in porpas, 167/35.

Menske, 178/32, civility; 184/234, favour.
From A.S. _mennisc_, human: _cf._ our double sense of ‘humanity.’
H. Coleridge. Cp. also ‘kind’ and ‘gentle.’

Menskely, 185/291, moderately.

Menuce, 55/819;
menuse, 52/747, minnows.

Meny, 270/88, household.

Merchants, duty of, 242/14;
rank of, 71/1037; 73/1071.

Merlynge, 39/558, the fish whiting; 57/834; 166/31.

Mermaid, p. 117.

Merry, be, before bed-time, p. 128.

Merry, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line M.

Mertenet, 37/542; p. 98, the martin; Mertenettes, 49/706.

Mertinet, 28/437; p. 95, martin.

Mess, each, at dinner, to be booked at 6d., 190/413.

Mess, who may sit 2 or 3 at a, 72/1055;
who 3 or 4, l. 1057;
who 4 and 4, l. 1066.

Message, when sent on, how to behave, p. 236, cap. viii.

Mesurabli, p. 261, l. ¶, moderate.
Mesurably, _Mensurate_ (_moderate_). Prompt.

Mesure, 8/107, moderation.

Metely, 61/890, meet, fitting.

Metes, 58/845, fish.

Methe, 58/817, mead.

Metheglin, p. 107.

Metis, 8/95, vegetables; _ib._ l. 101, food.

Michaelmas to Christmas, feasts from, p. 164.

Milk, 8/93.
‘_Vin sur laict, c’est souhait; laict sur vin, c’est venin._’
Prov. Milke before wine, I would twere mine; milke taken after,
is poisons daughter. Cot. u. _Souhait._

Minnows, p. 104; 166/6.

_Misereatur_, to be learnt, 181/154.

Misty, _adj._, 62/911.

Mocker, don’t be a, 268/59.

Moderation, 8/107; 153/5; 232/477.
_See_ Meene.
Cp. p. 104 of the _Old English Homilies_, ed. Morris, 1868.
‘Brutes eat as soon as they get it, but the wise man shall have
times set apart for his meals, and then in reason keep to his
regimen.’

Mood, temper, passion.

Morning prayer, p. 225.

Morter, 66/968, bed-candle; 160/32; 193/503, a kind of candle used as
a night-light. [[160 for 169]]
Morter, _a Mortarium_, a light or taper set in churches, to burn
possibly over the graves or shrines of the dead. _Cowel._ Qu. if
not a cake of wax used for that purpose. Note in Brit. Mus. copy
of Hawkins’s Hist. of Music, ii. 294.

Mortrowes, 35/520; 54/805; 56/827.

Mortrus, 164/31.

Motes, 16/236; 18/272, bits of dust, &c.

Moths in clothes, p. 115, last line.

Mought, flesche-, 18/280, flesh-moth, louse. ‘Mowȝte, clothe wyrme
(mouhe, mow, mowghe), _Tinea_; Mought that eateth clothes,
_uers de drap_.’ Palsgrave; A.S. _moððe_. Prompt.

Moughtes, 64/945; p. 108, moths.

Mouth, don’t eat on both sides of, 179/65.

Mouth, drink not with a full, 255/149;
nor speak, 255/152.

Mouth, wipe it before drinking, 255/155.

Mowes (faces), don’t make, 277, 278/29.
Fr. ‘Monnoye de Singe. _Moes_, mumps, mouthes; also, friskes, leaps,
gambolls.... Mopping, mumping, _mowing_; also friskes, gambolls,
tumbling tricks.’ Cotgrave.

Mowynge, 278/29; 19/291; making faces in derision, grimacing; ‘mowe
or skorne,’ _vangia vel valgia_. Pr. Parv.

Mullet, 58/841, 850; 166/13.

Mulus, a sea-fish, p. 119.

Muscadelle, 9/118; p. 89, No. 6; 153/21, a sweet wine.

_Musclade_ is Span. _mezclada_, mixture. Ital. _mescolanza_ is used,
in Genoa at least, for a fry of small fish. --H. H. Gibbs.
Minsheu has _mézela_, _méscla_ or _mezcladura_, a medlie,
mingling. [[entry added by editor]]

Musclade of almonds, 55/821;
in wortes, 55/821; 167/34;
of minnows, 50/719.

Muscles (fish), 55/819; p. 107; p. 116.

Musculade, 166/6; 167/34.

Musculus, the cocke of balena, p. 119.

Mustard, 48/686; p. 100; 54/796; 58/843; 159/33.

Mustard and sugar, the sauce for pheasants, &c., 36/538.

Mustard for brawn, &c., 36/533;
with fish, 59/853;
with salt fish, 38/557; 57/832.

Mustela, the see-wesyll, p. 119.

Mutton, 48/688; p. 105.
‘The moton boyled is of nature and complexion sanguyne, the whiche,
to my jugement, is holsome for your grace.’ _Du Guez_, p. 1071.

Mutton, salt, to be eaten with mustard, 36/533;
stewed, 54/798.

Mutton, loin of, how to carve, 25/393.

Mylet, 51/735, mullet.

Myllewelle, the fish, 38/555; 50/723.

Myñ, 199/666, less.

Mynce, p. 151, carve.

Mynse, 26/400, mince.

Mysloset, 183/208, ? mispraised or misgoing, misleading.

Mystere, 199/639, craft, service.

Nails to be clean, 265/10; 277-8/22; 18/270;
not to be picked at meals, 255/150;
to be kept from blackness, 277-8/49.

Nape in the neck, the cony’s to be cut out, 29/455.

Nape, 199/659, tablecloth.

Naperé, 199/642, napry, table-cloths and linen; /656, table-cloth.

Napery, 4/61.

Nature, all soups not made by, are bad, 35/523.

Neckweed, p. 124, a hempen halter.

Neck-towel, 13/194; p. 92; [[82 for 92]]
to wipe knives on, 201/727.

Neghe, 178/25, eye.

Neeze, 211/61, sneeze.

Nereids, p. 119; p. 115.

Nesch{e}, 45/644, tender; 67/985, soft.

Newfangled, don’t be, 258/13.

Nice, 33/508, foolish.

Nice, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 261, line N.

Night-cap to be of scarlet stuff, p. 129;
must have a hole in the top, to let the vapour out, p. 137.

Night-gown, 193/483.

No fixed time for meals, p. 141.

_Noble Lyfe and Natures of Man, &c._, by Laurens Andrewe,
p. 113, &c. &c.

Nombles, 35/521;
see Promptorium, p. 360, note 1.

Nombles of a dere, 159/29, entrails, from _umbilicus_.

Noon, dinner at, 254/128.

Norture, give your heart to it, 275, 276/5.

Nose, don’t blow it on your dinner napkin, 263/53;
when you blow it on your fingers, wipe ’em, 179/90.

Nose, don’t pick it, 275, 276/12;
at meals, 255/150;
at table, 267/38.

Nose _not_ to be wiped, 274/141;
not to be wiped on your cap, &c., 210/47-52.

Nose-napkin, 226/94.

Nottys, 6/78; p. 85, nuts.

Nowelte, 53/784, novelty.

Nown{e}, 179/87, own.

Nurrieris, 71/1039; p. 110.

Nurture, 45/651, correct way.

Nurture makes a man, 263/34, 30;
needful for every one, 177/4.

Nurtured, pray to be, 254/117.

Nuts, 152/19, 20.

Nyen, 180/116, eyes.

Oaths, hate ’em, p. 258, p. 261, line O.

Oats, green, in a bath, 69/995.

Ob. 198/620, halfpence.

Obedient, servants to be, p. 207, No. vi. [[207 for 216]]

Office, 202/738, mark of office?

Officers in Lords’ courts, 187/327.

Officers, their duty, 242/19.

Officers of shires, cities, and boroughs, their ranks to be
understood, 76/1130-2.

Onions with salt lamprey, 40/569; p. 198.

Onone, 196/591, anon, at once.

Open-clawed birds to be cooked like a capon, 164/23.

Opon, 196/580, up in?, about, over.

Opponents, answer them meekly, 186/311.

Orchun, a sea-monster, p. 120.

Order in speech, keep, 235/696.

Orders of chastity and poverty, monks, rank of, 71/1030.

Orped, 258/14; p. 261, l. O, daring; orpud _audax_, bellipotens.
Pr. Parv.

Oryent (jelly), 52/746, bright.

Osey, 153/19; p. 206, a sweet wine.

Osprey, how to carve, 26/402; p. 95.

Osulle, 28/438, the blackbird.

Ouemast, 200/671, uppermost.

Ouerþwart (don’t be), p. 258, p. 261, l. O;
Fr. _Pervers_, peruerse, crosse, aukeward, _ouerthwart_, skittish,
froward, vntoward. Cot.

Oyster, p. 120.

Oysters in ceuy (chive sauce), 55/822, and grauey; 167/34.

Ox; he is a companionable beast, p. 105.

Oxen, three in a plough never draw well, 185/287.

Ozey, 9/119; p. 90, No. 10, a sweet wine.

Page, the King’s, 75/1123.

Pagrus, a fish, p. 120.

Pale, 101/16, grow pale? [[101 for 153]]

Palettis, 197/435, pallets, beds of straw or rushes.

Palled, 13/183, stale, dead.

Panter, 200/667.

Pantere, 3/40;
pantrer, 190/405, 425;
originally the keeper and cutter-up of bread, see his duties, p. 4;
‘_Panetier_, a Pantler.’ Cot. His duties, to lay the bread,
knives, &c., 200/667.

Panter and butler, p. 208, No. xii. [[208 for 217]]

Pantry, 193/499.

Paraunce, heiers of, 193/497, heirs apparent.

Parelle, 23/343, ‘the thoþer parte’ in Sloane MS. 1315.

Parents, salute them, 226/71; 229/294;
wait on ‘em at table, 230/337.
’What man he is your father, you ought to make courtesye to hym all
though you shulde mete hym twenty tymes a daye.’ Palsgrave, ed.
1852, p. 622, col. 1.

Paris, candles of, 205/836.

Parish priests, rank of, 71/1032.

Parker, 196/589; 197/599, park-keeper.

Parsley roots, 56/826.

Parsons, the duty of, 242/10;
rank of, 71/1031; 73/1069.

Partridge, 49/697; p. 103;
how to carve, 25/397; 26/417;
or wynge, p. 161.

Partridge, with mustard and sugar, 36/538.

Passage, 33/507, ? passage through the bowels, or passing out of the
world.

Past, 203/773, pasty.

Pastey of venison, &c., 31/490.

Pasty, lamprey, 44/631; p. 100.

Patentis, 196/566, letters patent, grants, gifts by deed.

Paternoster, 181/145.

Patience, the fruits of, 237/821.

Pavilowne, 73/1079, pavilion, tent.

Payne puff, 32/497, a kind of pie, 49/699; 157/7; 163/32.

Peacock in hakille ryally, 49/695; p. 103.

Peacock, 28/433;
and tail, 157/5.
as to his voice, see Roberts’s _Fables Inédits_, T. Wright’s
_Piers Plowman_, ii. 548. [[reference added by editor]]

Pearl-muscle, the, p. 117.

Pearl-oyster, p. 120.

Pearls from your nose, do not drop, 18/283.

Pears, 52/757; 55/813; 57/826; 152/19.
‘Apres la poire, le vin ou le prestre. Prov. After a (cold) Peare,
either drinke wine to concoct it, or send for the Priest to
confesse you.’ Cot.

Peas and bacon, 25/392; 34/518.

Peautre, 153/28, pewter;
cp. Margaret Paston’s Letter, Dec., between 1461 and 1466,
modernized ed. 1841, v. 1, p. 159.
‘Also, if ye be at home this Christmas, it were well done ye should
do purvey a garnish or twain of _pewter_ vessell, two basins and
two ewers, and twelve candlesticks, for ye have too few of any of
these to serve this place.’ Orig. ed. vol. iv. p. 107, Letter xxx.

Pece, 203/792, cup.

Peck of oats a day for a horse, 197/608.

Pecocke of the se, p. 120.

Pecten, a fish that winks, p. 120.

Peeres, 6/78, 80, pears.

Pegyll sauce, 165/4; p. 174.

A malard of the downghyll ys good y-nogh for me wythe plesaunt
_pykle_, or yt ys elles poyson, perde. Piers of Fullham, l. 196-7.
_E. Pop. P._ vol. 2, p. 9.

Pen, paper, and ink, to be taken to school, 217/116. [[217 for 227]]

Pentecost to Midsummer, feasts from, 163/13.

Pepper, 58/843, eaten with beef and goose, 36/536.

Pepyns, 6/79; p. 85, pippins.
Fr. _pepin-percé_, (The name of) a certaine drie sweet apple. Cot.

Percely, 168/1, parsley.

Perceue, 62/917, look to, see.

Perch, 56/824; 58/850.

Perch (_percus_), p. 120.

Perch in jelly, 50/707; 52/746; 157/9; 166/16.

Perche, 10/128; 11/146, suspended frame or rod.

Perche, to hang cloths on, 152/14.

Perche for ypocras strainers, 153/26.

Percher, 66/968, a kind of candle.

Perchers, 192/467;
Perchoures, 169/32; 205/826, candles, lights.

_Per-crucis_, the, 181/152.

Peregalle, 70/1010, quite equal.

Pereles, 72/1231, peerless, without equal.

Pericles, the advice of, 238/891.

Peritory, 67/991.

Perueys, or perneys, 32/499; p. 96, a sweet pie.

Peson, 37/547.

Peson and porpoise, good potage, 50/720.

Pessene, 166/23, peason, pease-broth?

Pestelles, 164/11, 28, legs.
Pestle is a hock, Fr. _Faucille_ (in a horse), the bought or pestle
of the thigh. Cot.

Pestilence, silk and skins not to be worn during, p. 139.

Petipetes, or pety-pettys, p. 32, note 2; l. 499, note 3.
‘_Petipetes_, are Pies made of Carps and Eels first roasted, and
then minced, and with Spices made up in Pies.’ R. Holme.

Petycote, 60/872; 61/891; 168/22, 30.
Randle Holme, Bk III., chap. ii. §xxvii., p. 19, col. 1, says, ‘He
beareth Argent, a Semeare, Gules; Sleeves faced or turned up, Or
_Petty-Coat_ Azure; the skirt or bottom Laced, or Imbrauthered of
the third. This is a kind of loose Garment without, and stiffe
Bodies under them, & was a great fashion for Women about the year
1676. Some call them Mantua’s; they have very short Sleeves, nay,
some of the Gallants of the times, have the Sleeves gathered up to
the top of the Shoulders and there stayed, or fastned with a
Button and Loope, or set with a rich Jewel.’ He gives a drawing
of it two pages before.

Petycote of scarlet over the skirt, p. 131.

Pety peruaunt, 32/note 2; 96/xx. [[linenote 500]]

Pety perueis, or perneis, 50/707; 52/748.

Petyperuys, 157/9.

Pewter basons, 153/28.

Pheasant, how to carve, 27/417;
to alaye or carve, p. 161.

Pheasant to be cooked dry, and eaten with ginger, 163/17;
[[163 for 164]]
with mustard and sugar, 36/538;
stewed, 48/688; p. 101.

Pick not your nose, teeth, or nails, 255/150; 18/283.
_See_ Nose, &c.

Pick not your teeth with your knife, 277, 278/42.

Pick yourself, don’t, 276/14.

Pick your teeth with a knife, or fingers, don’t, 180/93.

Pie, how to carve a, 31/482.

Pie, 203/773.

Pig, how to carve, 28/446; 48/689;
roast, 54/801.

Pig and ginger sauce, 36/537.

Pig’s feet, 161/9.

Pigeon, 28/438;
baked, 29/491;
roast, 54/808.

Pight, 76/1134, placed.

Pigmies, p. 102, note.

Pike, 50/724; p. 119; 57/839;
how to carve, 39/562; p. 164, last line; colice of, 56/824.
[[164 for 166]]

Pike, names of a, p. 99.

Pike not your nose, 18/283.

Pilgrimages vowed, to be performed, 183/201.

Pillow, 53/925; 66/965.

Piment, 153/22, a sweet wine. _See_ Notes to Russell, p. 86-8.

_Pincernarius_, 190/422-3, butler.

Pinions indigestible, 24/363.

Pinna, a fish, p. 120.

Pippins, 50/713; 152/25.

_Pistor_, 198/622-3, the baker.

Plaice, p. 120;
how to carve, 40/570; 167/3.

Plaice with wine, 57/839.

Planer, 4/58, (ivory) smoother (for salt); 152/9.

Platere, 26/408;
plater, 44/633, platter.

Playes, 204/818, folds.

Pliȝt, 16/242, fold.

Plite, 28/434, manner.

Plommys, 6/77, plums.

Plover, 36/539; p. 97; 49/697; p. 158, last line; 165/1.

Seththe sche brouȝt hom in haste
Ploverys poudryd in paste.
_Sir Degrevant_, p. 235, l. 1402.

Plover, how to carve, 27/417;
to mynce or carve, p. 163.

Plummets of lead, 131/4.

Plums, 46/668; 152/20.

Plyed, 200/690, folded.

Plyte, 155/31, plait.

Points, truss your masters, 62/898. To _truss ... the points_ was to
tie the laces which supported the hose or breeches. Nares.

Polippus, a fish, p. 117, p. 120.

Pommander, p. 141, a kind of perfume made up in a ball and worn
about the person. _See_ recipes in Halliwell’s Gloss.

Poor, think of them first, 265/16.

Poor men, their duty, 242/17.

Pope has no peer, 70/1006; 72/1045;
his father or mother is not equal to him, 74/1097-1104.

Pork, 164/12, 28, 30, 32.

Porpoise, 41/582; 55/823; p. 97, note on l. 533.

Porpoise, fresh, 58/849;
salt, 38/548; 57/835; 166/25.

Portenaunce, 161/9, belongings, an animal’s intestines. Palsgrave
(in Halliwell).

Porter at the gate, 177/6;
to have the longest wand, 187/355;
his duties and perquisites, p. 188.

Port-payne, 17/262; p. 93; a cloth for carrying bread. Cp. ‘þen brede
he brynges, in towell{e} wrythyñ,’ 200/685;
cp. 203/784.

Possate, 8/94; p. 85;
posset, 152/33.

Post, don’t lean against it, 253/82; 275/9; 276/10; 186/325.

Potage, 34/516-17; p. 102; 49/693; 52/745; 56/829; 159/30; 164/10, 13.

Potage to be served after brawn, 48/687; p. 102;

‘physicions ben of opynyon that one ought to begyn the meate of
vitayle (_uiandes liquides_) to thende that by that means to
gyve direction to the remenant.’ 1532-3.
Giles du Guez’s _Introductorie_, ed. 1852, p. 1071.

Potage, how assayed, 203/765;
how to be supped, 234/443-50;
to be supped quietly, 179/70;
eat it with a spoon, don’t sup it, 255/144.

Potelle, 11/148, a liquid measure.

Potestate, 62/915, man of power, noble.

Pouder, 167/16, ? ginger or pepper.

Poudre, 164/22, ? ginger, see l. 19.

Poudres, 163/17, spices?

Powche, 33/501, ? poached-egg, p. 96, 49/700.

Powder, 42/589, 597; ? salt & spice, 43/620. _The Forme of Cury_
mentions ‘powdour fort,’ p. 15, p. 24, and ‘powdo{ur} douce,’
p. 12, p. 14, p. 25. Pegge, Pref. xxix., ‘I take _powder-douce_
to be either powder of galyngal (for see Editor’s MS. II. 20, 24;)
or a compound made of sundry aromatic spices ground or beaten
small, and kept always ready at hand in some proper receptacle.
It is otherwise termed _good powders_, 83. 130. and in Editor’s
MS. 17. 37. 38 (but see the next article,) or _powder_ simply
No. 169. 170. (p. 76), and p. 103, No. xxxv.’

Powder, 40/573, ? not _sprinkle_ verb, but _brine_ or _salt_ sb.

Powders for sauce, 26/412.

Powdred, 36/533; p. 97, salted.
Dutch _besprenght vleesch_, Powdered or Salted meate. Hexham.
Cotgrave has ‘Piece de laboureur salé. A peece of _powdered_
beefe. Salant ... salting; _powdering_ or seasoning with salt.
Charnier, a _poudering_ tub. Saliere ... a salt-seller, also,
a _powdering_ house.’ ‘Item that theire be no White Salt [see
p. 30] occupied in my Lordis Hous withowt it be for the Pantre,
or _for castyng upon meit_, or for seasonynge of meate.’ _North.
Hous. Book_, p. 57. The other salt was the _Bay-Saltt_ of p. 32.
‘_Poudred_ Eales or Lamprons 1 mess. 12d.’ _H. Ord._ p. 175.

Powdur, 57/838; 58/847, ? blanche powder. Fr. ‘_Pouldre blanche_,
A powder compounded of Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmegs; much in
vse among Cookes.’ Cotgrave.

Powt not, 19/294.

Praised, when, rise up and return thanks, 253/104.

Praising (flattering), don’t be, p. 259, p. 261, line P.

Pray, pp. 137, 140.

Prayer, morning, p. 225;
evening, p. 240.

Prayer, the best, 254/117-19.

Prayers to be said, p. 135.

Precedence, the degrees of, p. 70-78; p. 110.

Prechoure of pardon; rank of one, 71/1028; 73/1069.

Precious stone, to be worn in a ring, p. 141.

Preket, 193/510, ? not a spike to stick a light on, but a kind of
candle. See note 3 on 214/825.
One of the said groomes of the privy chamber to carry to the
chaundrie all the remaine of morters, torches, quarries,
_pricketts_, wholly and intirely, withoute imbesseling or
purloyning any parte thereof. _H. Ord._ p. 157. [[214 for 205]]

Prelates, the duty of, 241/3.

Press up among the gentlefolk, don’t, 262/25.

Press not too high, 277, 278/25.

Prest, 28/434;
preste, 254/115; ready.

Prestly, 62/910, readily.

Pricks, Pref. p. ci.-ciii.; Sp. _fiél_, the pinne set at buts or
_pricks_ which archers measure to. Minsheu.
[[Citation could not be identified.]]

Priest, don’t blame him, 184/244.

Primate of England, 73/1082.

Prince, rank of a, 70/1009.

Princes & dukes, don’t be privy with them, p. 259, p. 261, line P.

Princes, the duty of, 241/1.

Prior of a Cathedral, 70/1015;
simple, l. 1016; 72/1059; the ranks of.

Priors of Canterbury & Dudley not to mess together, 77/1145-8.

Private dinners and suppers not to be allowed, p. 218, No. xvii.

Privehouse, 63/931, privy (to be kept clean).

Privy members not to be exposed, 20/305; 213/141;
or clawed, 19/286.

Privy seat, cover it with green cloth, 169/21.

Promises, keep your, 268/48.

Property, the difference it makes in the way men of the same rank
are to be treated, p. 76-7.

Prothonat, p. 170;
prothonotary, 72/1063.

Prouande, 197/605;
provender, forage for horses, used in l. 608 for oats.

Provyncialle, 70/1021; 72/1062; ? governor of a province.

Prow, 271/86, advantage, duty, the correct thing to do.

Prowe, 16/236; advantage.

Prowl not for fleshmoths in your head, 18/280.

Puff not, 20/303.

Pullets, p. 164, last line.

Pulter, 196/581. Fr. _Poullailler_, a Poulter or keeper of pullaine.
Cot.

Purpayne, 154/11. _See_ Port-payne.

Purpose, 50/720, porpoise; roasted on coals, 50/724.

Purveyde, 252/71, provided beforehand.

Pyment, 9/118; p. 97, No. 4; p. 96, a sweet wine.
[[97, 96 for 87, 86]]

Pyndynge, 33/507, tormenting, torturing, A.S. _pinan_.

Pyntill, a whelk’s, 44/625.

Quail, to wynge or carve, p. 162.

Quails, 28/437; 37/544; p. 98; 49/706.

Quarelose, p. 261, l. Q, querulous; Quarel, or querel, or playnt,
_Querela_. Prompt.

Quarell (square) of a glasse wyndowe, p. 131, last line.

Queder, 201/715, whether of two; _neuer þe queder_, never mind which
of the two?

Queeme, p. 261, l. Q; A.S. _cweman_, to please.

Quelmes, 201/703, covers.

Queneborow, the Mayor of, not to be put beside the Mayor of London,
76/1138.

Quere, 200/693, circle?

Questions, three, to ask your companions, 186/299.

Queynt, don’t be, p. 259, p. 261, l. 2.

Quick in serving, be, 279, 280/61.

Quinces, 56/826;
baked, 50/708;
in sirup, 168/1.

Quosshyns, 63/924, cushions.

Qweche, 186/301, who, what.

Qwyle, 190/431, while.

Qwysshenes, 192/456, cushions for a bed, ? pillows.

Qwyte, 201/701, white.

Rabettes sowkers, 29/457; p. 95; 49/697, sucking rabbits.

Rack for horses, 197/610.

Rage not too much, 259/17; p. 261, l. R.

Rage, p. 264, l. 76, break bounds, riot.

Rain, the peacock’s cry a token of, p. 103, note on Peacock.

Raisins, 5/74; 152/21.

Rakke, 9/115, rake, go, move, Sw. _räcka_, to stretch or reach to.
Wedgwood, u. _rake_. [[ä written as e over a]]

Rash and reckless, be not, 19/296.

Raspise, 9/118; p. 88; [[98 for 88]]
raspys, 153/21, a sweet wine.
All maner of wynes be made of grapes, excepte _respyce_,
the whiche is made of a berye. --A. Borde, _Dyetary of Wynes_,
sign. F. i. [[reference added by editor]]

Raw fruits are bad, 8/97; 152/35.

Ready to serve, always be, 254/110, 115.

Raynes, towaile of, 14/213; p. 92. Rennes, in Brittany.

What avayleth now my feather bedds soft?
Sheets of _Raynes_, long, large, and wide,
And dyvers devyses of clothes chaynged oft.
_Metrical Visions_, by George Cavendish, in his Life of Wolsey,
ed. Singer, ii. 17.

In _Sir Degrevant_ the cloths are ‘Towellys of Eylyssham, Whyȝth as
the seeys fame,’ 225/1385.

Reason, be ruled by, 219/2; 234/627.

Rebels in court to be arrested, 189/382.

Reboyle, 8/110; 9/113; p. 86; 153/9, ferment and bubble out of a cask.

Reboyle, 8/115, fermentation.

Rechy, 23/359, ? causing belches.

Receiver of rents, forfeits, &c., the, 196/575, 587;
his duties, p. 197.

Receyte, 154/17, sediment, dregs.

Receytes, 33/508, takings-in, stuffing themselves with choice dishes.

Red landlord or landlady, don’t go to any, 186/307.

Red wyne, properties of, 10/140.