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 ...

                                
                                  Take þe salt with thi clene knyfe;
                                
                                  Be cold of spech, & make no stryfe;
                                
                                  Bakbyte no man þat is A-weye,
                                
                                  Be glad of Alle men wele to sey.
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                                  Here & se, & sey thou nought,
                                
                                  Than schall þou not to profe be brought.
                                
                                  With mete & drynke be-fore þe sette,
                                
                                  Hold þe plesyd, & aske no bette.
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                                  Wype thi mouthe when þou wyll drinke,
                                
                                  Lest it foule thi copys brinke;
                                
                                  Kepe clene thi fyngeres, lypes, & chine,
                                
                                  Fore þou may thi wyrschype wynne.
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                                  Yn þi mouth when þi mete is,
                                
                                  To drinke, or speke, or lauȝh, I-wys
                                
                                  Dame curtasy fore-bydes it the:
                                
                                  Bot prayse thi fare, wer-so-euer þou be,
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                                  Fore be it gode or be it badde,
                                
                                  Yn gud worth it muste be had.
                                
                                  When þou spytes, be welle were
                                
                                  Where to þou spytes, nyȝe or fere;
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                                  Hold þi hand be-fore thi mouth
                                
                                  When þou spytes, & hyde it couth.
                                
                                  Kepe þi knyfe both clene & scherpe,
                                
                                  And be not besy forto kerpe;
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                                  Clens þi knyfe with some cutte bred,
                                
                                  Not with thi cloth, As I þe rede:
                                
                                  With Any fylth to fowle þe clothe,
                                
                                  A curtase mane he wylle be lothe.
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                                  In þi dysch sette not þi spone,
                                
                                  Noþer on þe brynke, os vn-lernyd done.
                                
                                  When þou sopys, make no no[y]se
                                
                                  With thi mouth As do boys.
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                                  The mete þat on þi trencher is,
                                
                                  Putte it not in-to þi dysch.
                                
                                  Gete þe sone A-voyde,
                                
                                  And sone A-voyd þou thi trenchere.

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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 23
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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