[Sca-cooks] French table Service and Web site

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Angharad,
This is wonderful!  thanks so very much.

Kiri
> Here is the next installment:
> 
> "The princed arrived, and the plate proferred, the Maitre D calls upon the
> cup bearer (echanson), and so the cup bearer leaves the table, goes to the
> buffet and locates the covered basins which the sommelier had prepared; he
> takes them and peforms [presents?] the water trial to the sommelier, kneels
> before the prince, raises the basin which he proceeds to open with his left
> hand, and pours water from the other basin over the edge of this one and
> does proof and trial, and gives to wash from one of the basins and receives
> water in the other.  Without covering the basins, he hands them to the
> sommelier.  This done, the cupbearer places himself before [in front of] the
> gobelet and looks upon the prince, and he should be so attentive that with
> the subtlest sign [look], the prince can let it be known he desires wine"
> 
> Only one more to go!!!
> Vicki
> 
> Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
> Barony Beyond the Mountain
> East Kingdom
> vhsjvs at gis.net
> 
> 
> 

> > I don't really have a deadline.  The thing I'm working on is ongoing.
> It's one of those things that I've been working on for some time, and intend
> to finish in the near future...I hope.  In fact, the part that your
> translation will help with is pretty much already written, and one version
> has already been published...but this will make it much better when I revise
> that part to go in the finished "whole"...
> >
> > Thanks again for your hard work.  I look forward to seeing the rest of the
> translation, whenever you can get to it.  In fact, your work may be what it
> takes to make me get busy and finish the project!
> 
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