þe cony, ley hym on þe bak in þe disch, if he haue grece,
while ye par awey þe skyn on vche side / & þan breke hym or y[e] sece
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betwene þe hyndur leggis breke þe canelle boon, [The 'canelle boon' between the hind legs must be the pelvis, or pelvic arch, or else the ilium or haunch-bone: and in cutting up the rabbit many good carvers customarily disjoint the haunch-bones before helping any one to the rump. Atkinson.]
þan with youre knyfe areyse þe sides alonge þe chyne Alone;
so lay your cony wombelonge vche side to þe chyne / by craft as y conne,
betwene þe bulke, chyne, þe sides to-gedure lat þem be doon;
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The .ij. sides departe from þe chyne, þus is my loore,
þen ley bulke, chyne, & sides, to-gedire / as þey were yore.
Furst kit owte þe nape in þe nek / þe shuldurs before;
with þe sides serve youre souerayne / hit state to restore.
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Rabettes sowkers, [Rabet, yonge conye, Cunicellus. P. Parv. 'The Conie beareth her Rabettes xxx dayes, and then kindeleth, and then she must be bucked againe, for els she will eate vp hir Rabets. 1575. Geo. Turbervile, The Booke of Venerie, p. 178, ch. 63.'—H. H. Gibbs.] þe furþer parte from þe hyndur, ye devide;
þan þe hyndur part at tweyn ye kut þat tyde,
pare þe skyn away / & let it not þere abide,
þan serue youre souerayne of þe same / þe deynteist of þe side.
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The maner & forme of kervynge of metes þat byn groos, [folio 177b]
afftur my symplenes y haue shewed, as y suppose:
yet, good son, amonge oþer estates euer as þow goose,
