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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Piper.
Storie for Table-tacke.
IN India, Pepper is gathered in October, and dryed in the Sunne: the Cornes strewed in beds of palme-leaues, vntill they be wrinckled.
Isidorus telleth a mad tale of Pepper: that it groweth in cer∣taine woods on the South side of Caucase mount, which woods are full of serpents: therefore the in∣habitantes of those partes set the woodes on fire to scarre away the serpentes, and so the Pepper comes to be blacke.