Chapter 14 THE FUNERAL ORATION

In northern customs duty was exprest

To friends departed by their funeral feast;

Though I've consulted Hollingshed and Stow,

I find it very difficult to know,

Who, to refresh the attendants to the grave,

Burnt claret first, or Naples' biscuit gave.

King: Art of Cookery.

Ceterum priusquam corpus humo injecta contegatur, defunctu