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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Butts, Henry, d. 1632.
Publication: Printed in London :: By Tho. Creede, for William Wood, and are to be sold at the west end of Powles, at the signe of Tyme,; 1599.
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Subject terms: Food -- Early works to 1800.
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Ostreum.

Story for Table-talke.

THe Oyster is an headlesse fish, yet passing toothe∣some: it is engendred of meere myre, or mudde inclining to corruption: or of the sea froth and spume, which cleaueth vpon ships. It liueth not out of the wa∣ter, yet breatheth not ayre, nor taketh in any external moysture. It hath not locall motion: and plucked from his proper place is deuoyd of sense, increasing and decreasing with the Moone.

It is vnseasonable and vnhole∣some in all monethes, that haue not the letter R. in their name, because it is then venerious.