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Cloves. Nº 20. Dishes are flourished with them, 22. 158. Editor's MS. 10. 27. where we have clowys gylofres, as in our Roll, Nº 194. Powdour gylofre occurs 65. 191. Chaucer has clowe in the singular, and see him v. Clove-gelofer.

Galyngal, 30. and elsewhere, Galangal, the long rooted cyperus,[1] is a warm cardiac and cephalic. It is used in powder, 30. 47. and was the chief ingredient in galentine, which, I think, took its name from it.

Pepper. It appears from Pliny that this pungent, warm seasoning, so much in esteem at Rome,[2] came from the East Indies,[3] and, as we may suppose, by way of Alexandria. We obtained it no doubt, in the 14th century, from the same quarter, though not exactly by the same route, but by Venice or Genoa. It is used both whole, Nº 35, and in powder, Nº 83. And long-pepper occurs, if we read the place rightly, in Nº 191.

Ginger, gyngyn. 64. 136. alibi. Powder is used, 17. 20. alibi. and Rabelais IV. c. 59. the white

  1. ↑ Glossary to Chaucer. See the Northumb. Book, p. 415 and 19. also Quincy's Dispens. and Brookes's Nat. Hist. of Vegetables.
  2. ↑ Lister, Praf. ad Apicium, p. xii.
  3. ↑ Plinius, Nat. Hist. XII. cap. 7.

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