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12. 5. “All Saints doe laie,” etc. All Saints’ Day expects or lays 
itself out for pork and souse, sprats and smelts for the household. 
«When it [the bore] is killed, scalded, and cut out, of his former 
parts is our brawne made, the rest is nothing so fat, and therefore 
it beareth the name of sowse onelie, and is commonly reserved for 
the serving-man and hind, except it please the owner to have anie 
part ther of baked, which are then handed of custome after this 
manner. The hinder parts being cut off, they are first drawne with 
lard, and then sodden; being sodden, they are sowsed in claret 
wine and vineger a certeine space and afterward baked in pasties, 
and eaten of manie in steed of the wild bore, and trulie it is very 
good meat. The pestles! may be hanged up a while to drie before 
they be drawne with lard if you will, and thereby prove the better.” 
—Harrison, Descrip. of Eng. part ii. p. 11. 
“ Spurlings are but broad Spraés, taken chiefly on our Northern 
coast; which being drest and pickled as Anchovaes be in Provence, 
rather surpass them than come behind them in taste and goodness. 
As for Red Sprats and Spuriings, 1 vouchsafe them not the 
name of any wholesome nourishment, or rather of no nourishment 
at all; commending them for nothing, but that they are bawdes to 
enforce appetite and serve well the pocr man’s turn to quench 
hunger.” —Muffett, p. 169, quoted in The Babees Book, ed. Furnivall. 
*« Smelt=Spirling or Sparling in Scotland, Salmo Sperlanus.”— 
Yarrell, Names of British Fishes. ‘‘A Sperlynge, zpzmera, sper- 
lingus.”—Catholicon Anglicum. See also Glossary to Specimens 
of Early Eng., ed. Morris and Skeat. 
12. 6. ‘“‘Embrings.” Ember days or weeks, set apart for con- 
secrating to God the four seasons of the year, and for imploring 
his blessing by fasting and prayer. They were settled by the 
Council of Placentia a.D. 1095.—M. mbring is a more correct 
form, being nearer to A.S. ymbren. A connexion with Ger. guatember 
is out of the question. 
12. 7. See as to the law relating to fasting and fish days, the 
note on 10. 51. 
13. 5. ‘‘It is an ill winde turnes none to good,” z.e. turns to good 
for none. 
«« An yll wynd that blowth no man good, 
The blower of whych blast is she ; 
The lyther lustes bred of her broode 
Can no way brede good propertye.”—Song against 
Idleness, by John Heywood, cerca 1540. 
‘‘ Ah! Sirra! it is an old proverb and a true 
I sware by the roode! 
It is an il wind that bloues no man to good.”—Marriage 
of Wit and Wisdom, 1570. Quoted in Hazlitt’s Handbook of 
Proverbs, p. 240. 
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