The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

The Furst Course.

"Musclade or [For of. See 'Sewes on Fische Dayes,' l. 821.] menows // with þe Samoun bel|lows [? for bellies: see 'the baly of þe fresch samoun,' l. 823 in Sewes on Fische Dayes; or it may be for the sounds or breathing apparatus.] // eles, lampurns in fere; Peson with þe purpose // ar good potage, as y suppose // Line 720 as fallethe for tyme of þe yere: Baken herynge // Sugre þeron strewynge // [folio 182a] grene myllewelle, deyntethe & not dere; pike [Pykes in Brasey, H. Ord. p. 451.] / lamprey / or Soolis // purpose rosted on coles [Purpesses, Tursons, or sea-hogs, are of the nature of swine, never good till they be fat .. it is an unsavoury meat .. yet many Ladies and Gentlemen love it exceedingly, bak'd like venison. Mouffet, p. 165.] // Line 724

Line 724 gurnard / lampurnes bake / a leche, & a friture; a semely sotelte folowynge evyn þere. A galaunt yonge man, a wanton wight, pypynge & syngynge / lovynge & lyght, Line 728 Standynge on a clowd, Sanguineus he hight, þe begynnynge of þe seson þat cleped is ver."