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He reprovingly enumerates, "There were six tables that held one with another eighteen persons each, upon each table a good rich plumb pudding, a dish of boil'd pork and fowls, and a corn'd leg of pork with sauce proper for it, a leg of bacon, a piece of alamode beef, a leg of mutton with caper sauce, a roast line of veal, a roast turkey, a venison pastee, besides chess cakes and tarts, cheese and butter.
Is there not a weesill crept into your Chamber, lady? Sis. A weesill, sir? Cou. A Mounsier sucklegge. Sis. Do you take my Chamber for a henns neast? Cou. There is a thing that calls himselfe Device, One that will break the hart of a post horse To continue a hand gallop with him; your Alamode, Your fighting faery feather'd footed servant, When saw you him? Sis.
ALAMODE BEEF. Choose a piece of thick flank of a fine heifer or ox. Cut some fat bacon into long slices nearly an inch thick, but quite free from yellow. Dip them into vinegar, and then into a seasoning ready prepared, of salt, black pepper, allspice, and a clove, all in fine powder, with parsley, chives, thyme, savoury, and knotted marjoram, shred as small as possible, and well mixed.
"What with the theatre, and the bowling green, and tea in your summer-house, and dancing lessons, and the sale of these fine things, you and Charles must turn a pretty penny! The luck that some folk have! You were always fortunate, Mary." Mistress Stagg did not deny the imputation. But she was a kindly soul, who had not forgotten the gift of my Lady Squander's pink alamode.
On this subject a writer in the London Literary Gazette of some eight or ten years ago, lays down the following general directions, to which, in cold weather, there can be but one possible objection, which is, they are not alamode, and are not, therefore, likely to be followed.
You say very right, Lady. Sis. No, no; they are out of Spanish, as I remember. De. I thinke it be out of Spanish, indeed. Sis. Or else the Italian. De. Troth, I know not which very well. Sis. And yet you made 'em! Some gentlemen have the faculty to make verses and forgett what language was the Originall: tis Alamode, I confesse, sir. De.
Every one fell on it, and three dishes were devoured. We had also alamode beef, cold fowl, a loin of veal, a dessert, and excellent wine. What a charming dinner! No cheer like a good appetite. Their harmony, however, was disturbed. The 'première amoureuse, who, in spite of her rank and title, was ugly and cross, and required to be coaxed with cups of chocolate, lost her cat.
Why, this may be a way of fortune telling too. De. You say right, Lady: phisiognomy and chiromancy are but trifles; nay, your geomancie meere coniecturall, the execution of your schemes circumstantiall and fallible, but your quaint alamode weare of your fancie more then astrologicall. La. Tis a kind of Divinitie. De.
Most pretious Alamode, Monsir Device! De. I blesse my lipps with your white handes. Lady. You come to take your leave as knowing by instinct wee have but halfe an hour to stay. Sis. Wee are for the Countrey as fast as your Flanders mares will trott, sir. De. That's a Solecisme till the Court remove; are you afraid of the small pox? Sis. The less the better for a gentlewoman. De.
Their works are all Parian marble, alabaster, porphyry, and royal cement; they treat of nothing but heroic deeds, mighty things, grave and difficult matters, and this in a crimson, alamode, rhetorical style. Their writings are all divine nectar, rich, racy, sparkling, delicate, and luscious wine.
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