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At the fire were roasting juicy steaks of venison, pheasants, capons, and fresh fish from the river.
His farmers supplied him weekly with a sufficiency of capons, chickens, eggs, butter, and his tithe of wheat.
The ordinary lives of the farmers were diversified by the visits to the weekly markets held in the neighbouring town, where they took their fat capons, eggs, butter, and cheese.
While they were eating, I took a boiled capon and cut it up in a masterly manner.