THE FAERIE QUEENE by Edmund Spenser TO The ... - Planet.ee

www.TaleBooks.comBoth guestes and meate, when ever in they came,And knew them how to order without blame,As him the Steward badd. They both attoneDid dewty to their Lady, as became;Who, passing by, forth ledd her guestes anoneInto the kitchen rowme, ne spard for nicenesse none.XXIX. It was a vaut ybuilt for great dispence,With many raunges reard along the wall,And one great chimney, whose long tonnell thenceThe smoke forth threw. And in the midst of allThere placed was a caudron wide and tallUpon a mightie fornace, burning whott,More whott then Aetn', or flaming MongiballFor day and night it brent, ne ceased not,So long as any thing it in the caudron gott.XXX. But to delay the heat, least by mischaunceIt might breake out and sett the whole on fyre,There added was by goodly ordinaunceAn huge great payre of bellowes, which did styreContinually, and cooling breath inspyre.About the Caudron many Cookes accoyldWith hookes and ladles, as need did requyre;The whyles the viaundes in the vessell boyldThey did about their businesse sweat, and sorely toyld.XXXI. The maister Cooke was cald Concoction;A carefull man, and full of comely guyse.The kitchin clerke, that hight Digestion,Did order all th' Achates in seemely wise,And set them forth, as well he could devise.The rest had severall offices assynd;Some to remove the scum as it did rise;Others to beare the same away did mynd;And others it to use according to his kynd.XXXII. But all the liquour, which was fowle and waste,Not good nor serviceable elles for ought,They in another great rownd vessell plaste,Till by a conduit pipe it thence were brought:And all the rest, that noyous was and nought,By secret wayes, that none might it espy,Was close convaid, and to the backgate brought,That cleped was Port Esquiline, wherebyIt was avoided quite, and throwne out privily.XXXIII. Which goodly order and great workmans skillWhenas those knightes beheld, with rare delightAnd gazing wonder they their mindes did fill;For never had they seene so straunge a sight.Thence backe againe faire Alma led them right,And soone into a goodly Parlour brought,That was with royall arras richly dight,Page 213 , Faerie Queene, The - Edmund Spenser