Show food of the forefathers bulging from a passage in harri son s description ot britain break fast eating in the sixteenth century was hel I 1 to denote effeminacy here he writes there hath been more time spent in eating ani drink ing than commonly Is in these days for whereas of old we had breakfasts in the forenoon beverages or nun alons after dinner and thereto beare s pers when it was time to go to rest now these old repasts thanked be god are verie well left and ech one except here and there some young stomach that cannot fast till dinner time conten teth him self with dinner and supper the generle and students go to dinner at 11 doctore noon and to supper at five or between five and six at afternoon the march ints dine and sup seldom before 12 at noon ani six at night in the husbandmen dine also at high noon and sup at seven or taht but out of the hearme in our universities the scholars dine at ten |