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much art and disguise as at present. They had 
likewise their desert, or, as the term was, suf- 
teltie; which was in form of dolphins or other 
animals; and sometimes recourse was had to 
the kalendar to embellish the table, and St. 
Paul, St. Thomas, St. Dunstan, and a whole 
multitude of angels, prophetes and patriarkes, * 
were introduced as swftelties to honor the day. 
As no mention is made among the dishes that 
composed two of the courses, of the geese, the 
pygges, the veales, and other more substantial 
food, those must have been allotted to the 
Franklins and head yeomen in the lower hall: and 
those most singular provisions, the porposes and 
seales, indelicate as they may seem at present, 
in old times were admitted to the best tables : 
the former, at lest, as we learn from doctor 
Caius, who mentions it not only as a common 
food, but even describes its sauce. 
A transcript from that curious publication, 
The Regulations of the Houshold of the fifth 
Earl of NorTHUMBERLAND, begun in 1512; 
will be esteemed a very proper appendage to a 
work of this nature. It will shew not only the 
birds then inhigh vogue atthe great tables of those 
days, but also how capricious a thing is taste, 
* Leland’s collectanea, vi. 23. + Cait opuse. 115. 
