roster

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Conies, porke of meane age, neither fatte nor leane, the skynne takẽ awaye, roste, & eatẽ colde: Tartes of prunes, gelies of veale & capone.

From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by Caius, John

They are to be eaten as they are taken out of the ground, for by reason of their drinesse they will neither roste nor seeth.

From A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Hariot, Thomas

They fiede them with the rootes of mererushes, and other rootes, rosted in the embries, and with marshe Caubois, and colewortes which partly they seathe, and partly they roste, and parte giue them rawe.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

This man, yet nat satisfied, comaunded her to set the pot a-hygh vpon the henne roste.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

He cowde roste, and sethe, and broille, and frie Maken mortreux, and wel bake a pie.

From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by Hazlitt, William Carew