it were dirty, and others
worn away in some Places, some of them broke, and some whole, so set
them here and there about the Rock, some edgling, and some flat, some
the hollow side upward, and some the other, then stick the Moss, some
upon the shells, and some upon the stones, and also little branches of
Candied Fruits, as Barberries, Plums, and the like, then when all is
done, sprinkle it over with Rosewater, with a Grain or two of Musk or
Ambergreece in it; your Glass must be made with a reasonable proportion
of bigness to hold the Wine, and from that, in the middle of it, there
must be a Conveyance to fall into a Glass below it, which must have
Spouts for the Wine to play upward or downward, then from thence in
another Glass below, with Spouts also, and from thence it hath a
Conveyance into a Glass below that, somewhat in form like a Sillibub
Pot, where the Wine may be drunk out at the Spout; you may put some
Eringo Roots, and being coloured, they will shew very well among the
other Sweet-Meats, tie your Basket about with several sorts of small
Ribbons: Do not take this for a simple Fancy, for I assure you, it is
the very same that I taught to a young Gentlewoman to give for a Present
to a Person of Quality.

TO THE READER.

_Courteous Reader,

I Think it not amiss, since I have given you, as I think, a very full
Direction for all kinds of Food both for Nourishment and Pleasure, that
I do shew also how to eat them in good order; for there is a Time and
Season for all things: Besides, there is not anything well done which
hath not a Rule, I shall therefore give you several Bills of Service for
Meals according to the Season of the Year, so that you may with ease
form up a Dinner in your Mind quickly; afterwards I shall speak of
ordering of Banquets; but these things first, because Banquets are most
proper after Meals.

All you who are knowing already and Vers'd in such things, I beseech you
to take it only as a_ Memorandum; _and to those who are yet unlearned, I
presume they will reap some Benefit by these Directions; which is truly
wished and desired by_

Hanna Woolley _alias_ Chaloner.

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_A Bill of Service for extraordinary Feasts in the Summer._

1. A Grand Sallad.

2. A boiled Capon or Chickens.

3. A boiled Pike or Bream.

4. A Florentine in Puff Paste.

5. A Haunch of Venison rosted.

6. A Lomber Pie.

7. A Dish of Green Geese.

8. A Fat Pig