There is a delicious syrup of mixed spices (at least the palate of faith must believe it to have been delicious) and a powder of ginger, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and sugar, to be sifted over food, as sugar is sifted today; there is a recipe for hippocras, and for 'gauffres' or wafers, and for candied oranges.

There are various sage pieces of advice as to the seasons for certain foods and the best ways of cooking and serving them.

Most amusing of all these are a number of recipes not of a culinary nature--to wit, for making glue and marking ink, for bringing up small birds in aviaries and cages, preparing sand for hour-glasses, making rose-water, drying roses to lay among dresses (as we lay lavender today), for curing tooth-ache, and for curing the bite of a mad dog.

The latter is a charm, of the same type as the Menagier's horse charms: 'Take a crust of bread and write what follows: _Bestera bestie nay brigonay dictera sagragan es domina siat siat siat_.' Let us remember, however, that the nation which produced it, some four centuries later, produced Pasteur.
[Illustration: V.THE MENAGIER'S WIFE HAS A GARDEN PARTY] Enough has been said about this entrancing book to show how vividly it brings not only the Menagier, but the Menagier's young wife before our eyes after these many years.

In the morning she rises, much earlier than ladies rise nowadays, though not so early as nuns, who must say matins, for that, her husband tells her, is not a fitting hour for married women to leave their beds.