Dyets dry dinner consisting of eight seuerall courses: 1. Fruites 2. Hearbes. 3. Flesh. 4. Fish. 5. whitmeats. 6. Spice. 7. Sauce. 8. Tabacco. All serued in after the order of time vniuersall. By Henry Buttes, Maister of Artes, and fellowe of C.C.C. in C.
Butts, Henry, d. 1632.
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Mullus seu Barbo.
Story for Table-talke.
BArbo, bicause it hath a double beard vpon the neather lip.
And therfore Tully in his Pa∣radox, calleth those that are well barbed, Mulli. Fenestella thinkes they were called Mulli, because they are in colour like the shoes of the Almane Kings, and the Pa∣tricij amongst the Romans: which Shoes were tearmed Mullei, of Millo, an obsolet word, signify∣ing the same that suo, to sowe as Sowters do.
The Romanes prized this fish at a wonderfull high rate. It is in∣credible to tell what Asinius Celer and Crispinus, gaue for a Mullet.
