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 not prowd, bot meke & lynd,
                                
                                  And with thi better go þou be-hynd.
                                
                                  When þi better schewys his wylle,
                                
                                  To he haue seyd þou muste be stylle.
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                                  When þou spekes to Any mane,
                                
                                  Hande, fote, & fynger, kepe þou styll þan,
                                
                                  And luke þou vppe in to his face,
                                
                                  And curtase be in euery place.
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                                  With þi fynger schew þou no thynge,
                                
                                  Nor be not lefe to telle tydinge.
                                
                                  Yff Any man sey welle of þe,
                                
                                  Or of thi frendes, thankyd muste be.
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                                  Haue few wordes, & wysly sette,
                                
                                  Fore so þou may thi worschyppe gete.
                                
                                  Vse no suerynge noþer lyenge,
                                
                                  Yn thi sellynge & thi byenge,
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                                  Fore & þou do þou arte to blame,
                                
                                  And at þe last þou wylle haue schame.
                                
                                  Gete þi gowd with trewe[t]h & wynne,
                                
                                  And kepe þe out of dette & synne.
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                                  Be loth to greue, & leffe to ples;
                                
                                  Seke þe pes, & lyfe in es.
                                
                                  Offe whome þou spekes, where & when,
                                
                                  A-vyse þe welle, & to what men.
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                                  When þou commys vn to A dore,
                                
                                  Sey "god be here," or þou go ferre:
                                
                                  Wer-euer þou commys, speke honestly
                                
                                  To ser or dame, or þer meny.
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                                  Stand, & sytte not furth-with-alle
                                
                                  Tylle he byde þe þat rewlys þe halle;
                                
                                  Where he bydis, þer must þou sytte,
                                
                                  And fore none oþer change ne flyte;
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                                  Sytt vp-ryght And honestly,
                                
                                  Ete & drinke, & be feleyly,
                                
                                  Parte with hem þat sytes þe by,
                                
                                  Thus teches þe dame curtasy.

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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 21
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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