Taylors feast contayning twenty-seaven dishes of meate, without bread, drinke, meate, fruite, flesh, fish, sawce, sallats, or sweet-meats, only a good stomacke, &c. Being full of variety and witty mirth. By John Taylor.

11. A Pigge.

A Collier, neere Croyden, ha∣ving loaden his Cart with Coales for London, a woman that dwelt neare him that was Nurse to a Marchants child of the City, desired the Collier to remember

her humble service to her Maister and Mistresse, and to tell them (God be thanked) their Childe was well; and withall she intrea∣ted the Collier to carry them a live Pigge, (which she had put in a bag before the Colliers face:) the Collier tooke the bagge and made it fast upon the top of his Cart, and away came he. When hee came into London where hee should deliver his Coales, hee tooke the bagge with the Pigge, and tyed it under the Cart to one of the spoakes of the Wheele, and when hee had almost unloa∣den, a couple of Porters stood and perceived something moove in the bagge, did suppose it was a Pigge or a Goose, or some such creature, which they had borrowed upon some Common or high way, as they came by night: And whilst the Colliers

were busied, & absent in carriage, and empting their Sackes, the Porters stole the Pigge out of the bagge, and put in a little cur dogge of their owne, making it fast as they found it, and away go they: The dogge impatient of his bondage, began to frig and fling, as he had bin mad, that the Colliers said, the Divell was new∣ly entred into the Pigge; or else the Pig did presage that hee was neare his owne death. Wel, the Cart being empty, the Collier takes the dog-pigge, and carried it to the Marchant, delivering his Message (which was welcome) saying that he must carry the bag backe agen; so hee went to a side Table, and opened it, and putting in his hand for a Pigge, the dogge bit him by the fingers; a pox on yee dee bite, quoth he: what doth he bite: quoth the Marchant, it

can not be, I will take him out my selfe, then the Marchant put his hand into the bag, and the dogge snapt him so currishly that hee fetcht blood of his fingers, at which hee was angry, and bid the Divell take the Collier and the Pigge both. At which the Marchants wife laughed, and cald them both fooles, and with that she tooke the bagge by the bottome, and shooke out the dogge: the dogge being amazed, (not knowing where hee was) turn'd round twice or thrice, and leapt over a Hatch, and away ran he home to pick the bones of the Pigge: the Collier hang'd down his Head all ashamed to looke upon the Marchant. The Mar∣chant (standing with his fingers bleeding) very angerly asked the Collier that if hee had no bo∣dy but hee to abuse, and play the

knave withall, to bring him a dog instead of a Pigge: to whom the Collier replyd, and also affirm'd with an oath, that his intent was free from abusing him or any man else, and that it was a Pig in the morning. The Marchant swore it was a dogge, the Collier swore it was a Pig; and so much good may it doe you with your Pig.

A Pig miraculously roasted.

BUt a raw Pig is no mans meat, and therefore now you shall have one roasted, and strangely over-roasted. A Gentleman that dwelt about Enfield ten miles from London, had a Buffe, tough suite in Law, that had lasted him ten yeares, and every Terme hee sent his Counsellor a Pig, scalded and ready drest for the Spit: It fell so that at the beginning of a Mid-summer Terme: Richard the

Serving-man had the Pigge in a cloak-bag a Horse-backe behind him, and as he was riding by Tot∣nam-high-crosse, other Serving∣men were there drinking at the signe of the Swan, who espied Ri∣chard, they cald him to make him drinke. Richard was glad to see his old acquaintance, and a∣lighted, put his Horse in the Sta∣ble, tooke off his cloak-bag, and layd it on the board, telling his friends of the Pigge, and that it was the fortieth Pig that he had carried in ten yeares from his ma∣ster to a Lawyer. The company gave Richard the hearing, and with all one of them cunningly stole the Pig out of the cloakbag, and carried it into the Kitching, cōmanding it to be speedily roa∣sted: in the meane time they plied Richard with cup after cup, that they were al merry: the Pig being

roasted, they wrapt it close in the napkin again, that no heat should come from it, and put it into the cloak-bag: so they took suddain leave of Richard, who was quickly mounted with his piping hot pig behind him. So that he being well lined with Sack, with the hot Pig at his back-side, and the Sunne in his face, & exceeding hot, so that poore Richard did ride, as it were betweene two fires, besides the Horse trotted terrible, which made the cloak-bag skip, and the Pig was tost as in a blanket: In these occurrences, Richard was halfe stewed, so that the sweate distil'd from his body, and ly∣quored his bootes. In this bloa∣ted case he came to London, and set up his Horse, tooke off his cloak-bag, which carrying under his arme, it was so hot that his side seem'd to scald, and hee

thought he had gotten a Plewri∣sie, or a burning Feaver. Being come to the Councellours cham∣ber, hee remembred his Masters and Mistresses loves to him, and that they had (acording to custome) sent him a Pigge, and withall complained of the soul∣trinesse of the weather, and the extreame heate he was in. Then he puts his hand into the Cloak∣bagge to take out hte PIg, which was so hot, that he said there was fire in it; at last hee drew it out, and when hee opened it, that it had gotten aire, it reak'd and smoak'd in such manner, that Ri∣chard said, there was one of the Wonders of the World; for be∣tweene the heate of the Sun, and the hard trotting of his Horse, there was a Pigge roasted all to pieces in the Cloake-bagge.