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near the sea-coast enjoyed the addition of fresh fish ; but the state 
of the roads prevented the inland parts of the country partaking of 
this benefit. The consumption of fish during Lent and on other 
fast-days, comprising a great part of the year, being expressly 
directed by statute, the people, even after the abolition of the old 
religion, provided themselves at several large fairs held almost 
expressly for the sale and distribution of salt-fish. 
12. 3. ‘“‘ Veale and Bakon is the man,” z.e. is the proper food, or 
is in season. 
“‘ Martilmas beef,” beef killed at Martinmas, and dried for winter © 
use. ‘‘ Biefe salted, dried up in the chimney, Martlemas biefe.”— 
Hollyband’s Dict. 1593. See note to 1. 383 of Wallace, in Speci- 
mens of Eng. Literature, ed. Skeat, p. 391. 
‘‘Beefe is a good meate for an Englysshe man, so be it the 
beest be yonge, and that it be not kowe-flesshe ; for olde beefe 
and kowe-flesshe doth ingender melancolye and leporouse hu- 
moures. Yf it be moderatly powderyd, that the groose blode by 
salte may be exhaustyd, it doth make an Englysshe man stromge, 
the educacion of hym with it comsyderyd. Martylmas beef, whiche 
is called ‘hanged beef’ in the rofe of the smoky howse, is not 
laudable ; it maye fyll the bely, and cause a man to drynke, but it 
is euyll for the stone, and euyll of dygestyon, and maketh no good 
iuce. If aman hauea peace hangynge by his syde, and another in 
his bely, that the whiche doth hange by the syde shall do hym 
more good, yf a showre of rayne do chaunse, than that the which 
is in his bely, the appetyde of mans sensualyte notwithstandynge.” 
—Andrew Boorde’s Dyetary, E. E. Text Soc. edit. F. J. Furnivall, 
chap. xvi. 
‘In a hole in the same Rock was three Barrels of nappy 
liquour ; thither the Keeper brought a good Red-Deere Pye, cold 
Roast Mutton, and an excellent shooing-horn of hang’d J/artimas 
Biefe.”—1639, John Taylor, Part of this Summers Travels, p. 26. 
‘Bacon is good for carters, and plowe men, the which be euer 
labouryng in the earth or dunge ; but and yf they haue the stone 
and vse to eate it, they shall synge ‘wo be to the pye!’ Where- 
fore I do say that coloppes and egges is as holsome for them as a 
talowe candell is good for a horse mouth, or a peece of powdred 
Beefe is good for a blere eyed mare.” —A. Boorde, Regyment, fo. 
Kei. De 
** As for bacon it is in no wise commended as wholsome, especially 
for students, or such as haue feeble stomacks. But for labouring 
men it is conuenient according to that Latine prouerbe, grosse 
meate for grosse men.”—Cogan’s Haven of Health, p. 116. 
12. 4. The farmers in old times were greater economists than 
now. ‘Old crones and such old things,” it seems, fell commonly 
to their own share, while the best meat was probably sold.—M. 
Compare also 21. 1. 
