LVIII.

A Feast. Convivium.

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When a _Feast_ is made ready, the table is covered with a _Carpet_, 1. and a _Table-cloth_, 2. Cum _Convivium_ apparatur, Mensa sternitur _Tapetibus_, 1. & _Mappa_, 2. by the _Waiters_, who besides lay the _Trenchers_, 3. _Spoons_, 4. _Knives_, 5. à _Tricliniariis_, qui prætereà opponunt _Discos_ (Orbes), 3. _Cochlearia_, 4. _Cultros_, 5. with little _Forks_, 6. _Table-napkins_, 7. _Bread_, 8. with a _Salt-seller_, 9. cum _Fuscinulis_, 6. _Mappulas_, 7. _Panem_, 8. cum _Salino_, 9.

_Messes_ are brought in _Platters_, 10. a _Pie_, 19. on a _Plate_. _Fercula_ inferuntur in _Patinis_, 10. _Artocrea_, 19. in _Lance_.

The Guests being brought in by the _Host_, 11. wash their Hands out of a _Laver_, 12. or _Ewer_, 14. Convivæ introducti ab _Hospite_, 11. abluunt manus è _Gutturnio_, 12. vel _Aquali_, 14. over a _Hand-basin_, 13. or _Bowl_, 15. and wipe them on a _Hand-towel_, 16. super _Malluvium_, 13. aut _Pelvim_, 15. terguntque _Mantili_, 16. then they sit at the Table on _Chairs_, 17. tum assident Mensæ per _Sedilia_, 17.

The _Carver_, 18. breaketh up the good Cheer, and divideth it. _Structor_, 18. deartuat dapes, & distribuit.

_Sauces_ are set amongst _Roast-meat_, in Sawcers, 20. _Embammata_ interponuntur _Assutaris_ in Scutellis, 20.

The _Butler_, 21. filleth _strong Wine_ out of a _Cruise_, 25. or _Wine-pot_, 26. or _Flagon_, 27. _Pincerna_, 21. infundit _Temetum_, ex _Urceo_, 25. vel _Cantharo_, 26. vel _Lagena_, 27. into _Cups_, 22. or _Glasses_, 23. which stand on a _Cupboard_, 24. in _Pocula_, 22. vel _Vitrea_, 23. quæ extant in _abaco_, 24. and he reacheth them to the _Master of the Feast_, 28. who drinketh to his _Guests_. & porrigit, _Convivatori_, 28. qui propinat _Hospitibus_.