Another kitchen menial, a dairy specialist.
"He drove the English into a sheep-pen; there was he shut in on every side with cooks and buttery-boys, pantlers and grooms and suchlike rabble; one wielded a pitchfork, another a pointed pole; many a shrewd stroke he had from spit and pestle, but all his fellows gave him good help. Then it might have sped ill with their bodies and lives, but up there rode a troop of horse, drawn to the castle by the shouting of the fray."
Picard Trouvere Cuvelier (1350).
This must be a translation. But it is wonderful.
ReplyDelete" . . . many a shrewd stroke he had from spit and pestle"
Just read it aloud and lick your lips!