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The sermon done, a good anthem followed, with vialls, and then the King came down to receive the Sacrament. But I staid not, but calling my boy from my Lord's lodgings, and giving Sarah some good advice, by my Lord's order, to be sober and look after the house, I walked home again with great pleasure, and there dined by my wife's bed-side with great content, having a mess of brave plum-porridge
And I warrant you his Reverence's eyes twinkled as much at the bill as at the plum-porridge, and that he feigned not to see Father Ruddlestone, if perchance he met that foreign person on the staircase, or in the store-office where Mistress Nancy Talmash kept many a toothsome cordial and heart-warming strong water. This dismal Christmas none of these pleasant things were done.
"Then forth came an old knight A pattering o'er his creed, And proffered to the little boy Five nobles to his meed: "'And all the time of Christmas Plum-porridge shall be thine, If thou wilt let my lady fair Within the mantle shine. "A saint his lady seemed, With step demure and slow, And gravely to the mantle With mincing face doth go.
Misson says, "the plum-porridge is not at all inferior to the pie;" the goose pie usually made at Christmas. Yule Cakes. I must now call your attention to the Yule Cakes. Yule dough a little image of paste, was formerly baked at Yuletide, and presented by bakers to their customers, as Christmas candles are given away by tallow chandlers.
All the business of mankind has presently vanished; the whole world has kept holiday; there have been no men but heroes and poets, no women but nymphs and shepherdesses; trees have borne fritters, and rivers flowed plum-porridge. We read that Virgil used to make fifty or sixty verses in a morning, and afterwards reduce them to ten.
We had plum-porridge and mince-pies at Christmas, fritters and pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, furmenty on Mothering Sunday, violet-cakes in Passion Week, tansy-pudding on Easter Sunday, three-cornered cakes on Trinity Sunday, and so on through the year: all made from good old Church receipts, handed down from one of my lady's earliest Protestant ancestresses.
"Then forth came an old knight A pattering o'er his creed, And proffered to the little boy Five nobles to his meed: "'And all the time of Christmas Plum-porridge shall be thine, If thou wilt let my lady fair Within the mantle shine. "A saint his lady seemed, With step demure and slow, And gravely to the mantle With mincing face doth go.
I cheated the leddy for your clavers, but I wasna gaun to cheat my joe. But she may marry whae she likes now, for I'm clean dung ower. This is a waur dirdum than we got frae Mr Gudyill when ye garr'd me refuse to eat the plum-porridge on Yule-eve, as if it were ony matter to God or man whether a pleughman had suppit on minched pies or sour sowens."
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