With us, Maxima pars victus in carne consistit, we feed on flesh most part, saith Polydore Virgil, as all northern countries do; and it would be very offensive to us to live after their diet, or they to live after ours.

If he be safe and sound on the other side, and free from all manner of infirmity; et cui "Gratia, forma, valetudo contingat abunde Et mundus victus, non deficiente crumena.

Spelman derives this word from the Saxon term fearme, or feorme, which signifies victus, food, or provision, as the tenants and country people anciently paid their rents in victuals and other necessaries of life, but which was afterwards converted into the payment of certain sums of money.