The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  And sit þou stylle, what so be-falle, [stylle withalle] 
                                
                                  Tylle grace be saide vnto þe ende,
                                
                                  And tylle þou haue wasshen with þi frende.
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  Let the more worthy þan [thenne]  thow
                                
                                  Wassh to-fore [by-fore]  þe, & that is þi prow;
                                
                                  And spitte not yn [Spete not on (and omits next line.)]  þi basyne,
                                
                                  My swete son, þat þow wasshist yne;
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  And aryse up soft & stylle, [And ryse with hym that sate with the stylle, And thanke hym fayre and welle: Aftyr, Iangely not with Iacke ne gylle.] 
                                
                                  And iangylle nether with Iak ne Iylle,
                                
                                  But take þi leve of the hede [lorde]  lowly, [folio 207b] 
                                
                                  And þank hym with thyne hert hyghly,
                                  Line 92 
                                
                                  And alle þe gentyllis [þe gentylles omitted.]  togydre yn-same,
                                
                                  And bare the so [soo that]  thow haue no blame;
                                
                                  Than men wylle [wylle they sey]  say therafter
                                
                                  That a gentylleman was heere.
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  And he þat dispiseth this techyng,
                                
                                  He is not worthy, withoute lesyng,
                                
                                  Nether at [Neuyr at a]  good mannes tabulle to [for to]  sitte,
                                
                                  Ner [Nothyr]  of no worshipe for to wytte.
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                                  And therfore, chyldren, for [pur]  charyte,
                                
                                  Louyth this boke though yt lytil be! [Lernythe thys boke that ys callyd Edyllys be] 
                                
                                  And pray for hym þat made it thus, [made thys] 
                                
                                  That hym may helpe swete Ihesus
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  To lyve & dye among his frendes,
                                
                                  16And neuer to be combred with no fendes;

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Title: The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
Canvas: Page 22
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868.
Subject terms: Home economics -- England.; Education -- England.; Etiquette, Medieval; Table; England -- Social life and customs

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