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 and Sentiments. 395 In " Acolaflus," a work by the grammarian Palfgrave, publillied in 1540, the banquet is ftill identified with the rere-fupper, when he fpeaks of " the rere-fupper, or banket, where men fyt downe to drynke and eate agayne after their meate." And again, ftill later, Higins, in his " Nomenclator," pubhfhed in 1585, explains the Latin word poccenium by "a reare-fupper, or a banket after fupper." The term rere-fupper was in ufe throughout the fifteenth century. An Englilli vocabulary of that century fpeaks of a meal between dinner and fupper, under the name of "a myd-dyner under-mete," the fame which, no doubt, was called by a French word, a bever, as confifting efpecially in taking a drink, and which, removed to the time between breakfaft and dinner, is now called a luncheon. In the introdu£lion to Lydgate's "Story of Thebes," which is intro- duced as a continuation of the "Canterbury Tales," the poet pretends to have arrived at the inn in Canterbury when it was occupied by the pilgrims, who invite him to fup with them, and he joins their company. " Our hoft," who is the leader of the pilgrims, oifers him his place at their fupper heartily : Praying you (he says) to Juppe ivith us this night. And ye JJjall have made, at your devis, A great pudding, or a round hagis, A French moile, a tanjie, or afroife. Thefe appear to have been the ufual favourite dillies at an ordinary fupper of this date (the firft half of the fifteenth century). The hagis appears to have been much the fame difli as the Scottilh haggis of the prefent day. The moile was a difli made of marrow and grated bread. The tanjie was a kind of omelet, refembling apparently what the French now call an omelette aux fines herhes ; while the froife had fmall ftrips of bacon in it — an omelette au lard. This latter was a very favourite dilli among the monks. After fupper, the guefis, or at leaft fome of them, are reprefented as taking "fl:rong nottie ale" before going to bed. They rife early, "anon as it is day," and flart on their return towards London ; and they take no meal before dinner, having it Fully in purpofe to come to dinere Unto OJprittg, and breake there our f aft. There