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Show Ltfrd Mayor's Banquet. What h lord mayor's banquet was like up to the seventeenth century may lie guessed from Dekker's description de-scription of one In "The Rl.oemoker'p Holiday," where the chief guest' wns Henry V. ACter being told thnt n liumlml tiibU's were filled nnd to be refilled with IkiT pork, mutton, minced pies und marchpane, one reads that "venlsou pasties walk up and down piping hot, like sergeants; beef nnd brewess comes mnrchlng In dry-vnts; fritters nnd puncukes comes trowllng In the wheelbarrows; hens nnd sau-snges sau-snges hopping In porters' baskets, col-lops col-lops nnd eggs In scuttles, and tarts, and custards comes quavering In In malt-shovels." |