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"They will be here anon; but some declared that much rubbish would have to be sold ere the choice bargains be put up. Escanes wants a cook who can fry a capon in a special way they wot of in Gaul. Stuffed with ortolans and covered with the juice of three melons Escanes says it is mightily pleasing to the palate." "There is no cook from Gaul on the list," interposed the praefect curtly.
I also hinted that you might have merely disguised yourself as a waiter in the hopes of winning some favours from them, but they rejected the hypothesis as absurd, and said that you could carve a capon and change a plate dexterously enough, but were only a common waiter for all that, adding that with my permission they would compliment you on your skill to-day.
Holland's proposition, which the King do take very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that the seamen should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, to be paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable. After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and I had a very good capon to dinner.
Tarleton will give him a short shrift, I promise you, and then" this to the master of Appleby Hundred "then your title will be well quieted, Mr. Stair." At this the weather-beaten captain roared again and smote the table till the bottles reeled. "I say, Sir Frank, that's good damned good! So you have him crimped here in his own house, stuffing him like a penned capon before you wring his neck.
"A-eating and a-drinking of a honest man's dinner, by the Lord!" says he, clenching fat fists. "O ecod a hell-fire rogue a very lousy, scurvy dog as shall be carted and whipped and set in Sir Richard's new pillory!" "If there is aught left to eat," says I, "show it me!" "As fine a capon as was ever plucked, by the Lord!" he groaned. "Most true!" says I, stretching myself in the hay.
A capon, larded after the French fashion, a pair of trouts, the finest the stream could furnish, or a carp stewed in clary wine, and as many sweet kickshaws as cook's ingenuity could furnish at so brief a notice. Nor were waiting-woman, lackey, and postillions to be neglected. Chine and sirloin, pudding and beer must be provided for all.
When killed the capon was found to be very fat: there were masses of fat around the intestines and under the peritoneum, which made it impossible to make out details such as ureter and vas deferens properly. I found a white nodule about half an inch in diameter attached to mesentery. The liquid pressed from this was swarming with spermatozoa in active motion.
Bazzi is a sensualist: as his palate grows stale he whets it by stronger meat; thinks to provoke appetite by disgust; would draw you on by a nasty inference, as a dog by his hankering after faecal odours. What nearness to Art in his plumpy boy stuck with arrows like a skewered capon? Causes nuns to weep, hey? and to dream dreams, hey? Nature would do that cleanlier; and waxwork more powerfully!
In 1363 another statute concerning diet and apparel fixes the price of poultry, a young capon three pence, an old one four pence, a hen two pence, and a pullet one penny "for the great Dearth that is in many Places."
Many there are, no doubt, who covet as little as I do the part of 'Lover, 'with a woful ballad, made to his mistress's eyebrow; but then they covet some other part in the drama, such as that of Soldier 'bearded as a pard, or that of Justice 'in fair round belly with fat capon lined. But me no ambition fires: I have no longing either to rise or to shine.
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