SC - COKAGRYS OR COCKENTRICE

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This is an entry from the glossary of _Curye on Inglysch_.  

It just occured to me...... why was such a dish condoned by the church?  
Wouldn't this have been seen as tempting the hand of God? Or  'playing god' 
to "create" a new beast?   Any thoughts?
Phillipa


COKAGRYS        
the dish later generally called ‘cokantrice'.  A new beast is created   by 
sewing the top of a cock to the hind- quarters of a pig.  This creation is 
then stuffed with forecmeat, boiled roasted and then guilded.