Approved by the fifty years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several Persons of Honour, London, 1660.
The terms of carving and sewing form a far more ample list than that with which Sir John Hill has favoured us in the character of Mrs. Glass. "Break that deer, leech that brawn, rear that goose, lift that swan, sauce that capon, spoil that hen, frust that chicken, unbrace that mallard, unlace that coney, dismember that hern, display that crane, disfigure that peacock, unjoint that bittern, untack that curlew, allay that pheasant, wing that partridge, wing that quail, mince that plover, thigh that woodcock, thigh all manner of small birds.
"Timber the fire, tire that egg, chine that salmon, string that lamprey, splat that pike, sauce that plaice, sauce that tench, splay that bream, side that haddock, tusk that barbel, culpon that trout,
