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Gracious Traveler! What Humble Meal Will You Share With This Trembling Old Widder-Woman By The Side Of The King's Road?

Daniel Lavery
Sep 29, 2021
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Kind traveler, ₚₗₑₐₛₑ — will you spare a crumblet of your provisions with an aged old withershins, who mary a muckle be?

  • HALF A BANNOCK-CAKE, made by your own mither

  • Frumenty pie, baked by a suspicious sister

  • POTAGE, VARIOUS

  • My dish of sweet junket and renneted cream, to share with an old billbag? I’d sooner draw up my haughty skirts and complain of a river-God! Begone with you, you jumped-up old crow, and may your heart burst from impudence!

  • It is but a penny-loaf and a bag of hasty pudding, curdled from long travel, but you are welcome to share my poorman’s meal with me, Grandmother

  • My clabber-spoon is yours, washerwoman; hop your quicklight feet onto yon toadstool and we shall despatch this buttermilk together

  • My mother chose these strawberries especial for me, as I am to marry the king’s nephew; you may help yourself to that bark-bread, if it please you

  • All I have in the great wide world are these ten old groats and a fistful of pork mush. But whatever I have is yours, Auntie Whispers, out of respect for your silver hairs

  • What! Share my very own bag of cabinet pudding, when it’s all I’ve got to sustain me until I reach Frogmarch Meres? You’ll get a taste of my sword, and nothing else!

  • Bloodsop and spoonbunch

  • My mother did say to me never to cast a cloot til Mey s’oot…but you do look trustworthy. Very well, sirrah! Let us peel bag the puddy-cloth and cleave this cloutie amidships

  • All I have is that sprouted rye that makes everyone insane

  • My salt-thirlage and dripping-cake I’ll gladly share with you, For I’m abroad to Norroway, to fetch my bridegroom true

  • Singin’ griddle-hinny

  • Workhouse-stew and deeper-dozens you’re welcome to, Granny

  • Scufflestottie peasecake

  • This feverfew tansy cake is for my lady — I dare not carve it up

  • You might have some horsebread, if it please you, old ugly

  • You can chaw a mortress-mess as well as I!

  • I never grudge a gruel, Granny-dear

  • Winesop

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Troy
Sep 30, 2021Liked by Daniel Lavery

Is there a way to put each of these in a jar and turn pulling-them-out into a party game

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Kasey
Sep 29, 2021Liked by Daniel Lavery

The tunning is strong with this one, says Eleanor Rummyng

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