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 ...

                                
                                  Be-fore þi mete sey þou þi grace,
                                
                                  Yt ocupys bot lytell space;—
                                
                                  Fore oure mete, & drynke, & vs,
                                
                                  Thanke we owre lord Ihesus;—
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                                  A pater noster & Aue mary
                                
                                  Sey fore þe saulys þat in peyne ly;
                                
                                  Than go labour as þou arte bownde,
                                
                                  And be not Idylle in no stounde:
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                                  Holy scryptour þus it seyth
                                
                                  To þe þat Arte of cristen feyth,
                                
                                  "Yffe þou labour, þou muste ete
                                
                                  That with þi hondes þou doyste gete;"
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                                  A byrde hath wenges forto fle,
                                
                                  So man hath Armes laboryd to be.
                                
                                  Luke þou be trew in worde & dede,
                                
                                  Yn Alle þi werkes þan schall þou spede:
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                                  Treuth wyt neuer his master schame,
                                
                                  Yt kepys hym out offe synne & blame.
                                
                                  The weys to heuen þei bene þus tweyne,
                                
                                  Mercy & treuthe, As clerkes seyne;
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                                  Who so wyll come to þe lyfe of blysse,
                                
                                  To go þe weys he may not mysse.
                                
                                  Make no promys bot it be gode,
                                
                                  And kepe þou it with myght & mode;
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                                  Fore euery promys, it is dette,
                                
                                  That with no falsed muste be lette.
                                
                                  God & þi neybores lufe all wey;
                                
                                  Welle is þe, than may þou sey,
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                                  Fore so þou kepys All þe lawe
                                
                                  With-oute Any fere, drede, or awe.
                                
                                  Vn-callyd go þou to no counselle;
                                
                                  That longes to þe, with þat thow melle.
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                                  Scorne not þe pore, ne hurte no mane;
                                
                                  Lerne of hym þat the teche cane;
                                
                                  Be no glosere nor no mokere,
                                
                                  Ne no seruantes no wey lokere.

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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 19
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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