Fare of the Medieval Times

Would you care to partake in some breakfast cheese, and what of bread, butter and tea? Lords and ladies gorge themselves Perhaps another meal at ten or twelve Feasts of many with food of plenty, and a twilight meal of trencher and stew then dawn your caps and summons your carriage then guests would bid their host ado Acrobats and minstrel shows Games and songs to sing along During the spring and summer months Lords loyalist would go to hunt And feast they would On various birds Ones known to us the thought of eating, totally absurd Starlings, vultures, gulls, herons, storks, cormorants, swans, peacocks And maybe even some wild pigs hocks Often they would be displayed still feathered Imagine the mess when they were dismembered The lower class struggled to survive Listed here is what kept them alive: Dark bread, turnip salad, mead and ale It’s no wonder their skin appeared so pale The only thing I wished to see about these times, is hearing how Shakespeare May have marveled them with his rhymes