the more things change . . .

[ursula]

I. Childbirth baby-shower cake

II. From "For to make a feste for a bryde" (collected in The Babees Book):

The iiij cours.

Payne puff, chese, freynes, brede hote, with a cake, and a wif lying in childe-bed, with a scriptour saing in this wyse, "I am comyng toward your bryde. yf ye dirste ony look to me ward, I wene ye nedys must."

Furnivall glosses the text as "Needs must get a baby?"

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[freewaydiva.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a helluva thing.