"what ayle you man? " quoth shee. Quoth hee," my hart is dry, I am soe hungry, that for meat I readye am to dye." take heede &c. "Alas!" quoth shee, "content you must bee for none in the house is risen, you see, to giue you meate any way." "tush! tell not me of that! my belly must be fedd!" & with that word he Nimbly leapt & into the kitchin did goe. To the ffurmitree1 pott he quicklye gott, & there, without delay, he slapt vp the furmitree euerye whitt or he departed away, saue a ladel-full att the last he kept to carry his wiffe. Then he mistaking the chamber, he went vnto another mans wiffe. take heede [&c.] The Bridgroomes ffather & mother both did at that time lye there; the woman had tumbled the clothes soe that was in that same place, Frumenty or Furmety, a kind of Potage made of prepared Wheat, Milk, Sugar, Spice, &c. Phillipps. "Still a favorite dish in the north, consisting of [page 240] hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned. It was especially a Christmas dish." Nares, ed. 1859. See the recipe and extracts there.-F. 120 124 128 132 136 140 144 148 Then softly he sayd, "sweet wiff, I haue brought the woman ffisled1: " nay, blow not," quoth hee, with that shee puffed againe, & made him angrye bee: “I tell thee, thou need not to blow them att all, but supp them vp presentlye." take heed &c. The woman was windye, & fisled againe within a litle space, which made him to sweare, if shee blew any more, to fling all in her face. but shee, being fast asleepe, did ffisle without regard. then flung he the furmitree in her tayle, saying, "there is for thy reward!" take heede With that the woman suddenly waked, "what ayles thee?" her husband sayd. "I haue rayed 2 the bedd," quoth shee. take heede &c. But Panche, perceuing how the matter went, he closly got away, & into the milkehouse hyed with hast, 1? MS. ffisted. Fyistyn (fyen, W.) Cacco C. F. lirido; Fyyst, stynk, Lirida; Fyystynge, Liridacio. Promptorium. F. and offers her the furmity. She breaks wind three times, and Panche swears if she does it again he'll fling the furmity in her face. She does it; he flings the furmity at her; she puts her hand behind, and thinks she has dirtied the bed. Panche steals off to the dairy, 2 wrayed.-P. I be-ray, I fyle ones clothes with spottes of myer, properly about the skyrtes; Je crotte. Palsgrave. Embrener, to beray or beshite. Cotgrave. 152 156 160 164 168 Tow silly fryers, on the kitchin flore1 all night asleepe dyd lye; whose shauen crownes, by the Moonelight then, Sir Panch he did there espye. to one of them he comes, supposing his pate a stone; & there burst the earthen pott, which made the fryer to grone. tak heed &c. whose rumbled waked the folkes in the house, & fedd3 them full of feares. 180 take heed of hott furmitree! fed, perhaps fill'd.-P. 184 188 192 1 When they came downe, thé found the fryers [p. 241] brings all well buffeting one another; by his religious brother. but when Sir Panch they spyed, with honnye besmeared soe, & daubed about with Milke & creame, thé knew how all things did goe. take heede the people down stairs; Panche is discovered all over honey and cream; and they see who the culprit is, but don't know how to punish him. God keep such guests away from me! Here's the end of my merry tale. ffins. 1 the fryers they found.-P. |