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 ...

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Author

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,

Publication

London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,

1868.

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Subject terms

Home economics -- England.

Education -- England.

Etiquette, Medieval

Table

England -- Social life and customs

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"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 ..." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA6127.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2025.

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The furst Course.

                  
                    Furst set forthe mustard / & brawne / of boore, [See Recipes for Bor in Counfett, Boor in Brasey, Bore in Egurdouce, in H. Ord. p. 435.]  þe wild swyne,
                  
                    Suche potage / as þe cooke hathe made / of yerbis / spice / & wyne,
                  
                    Beeff, moton [Chair de mouton manger de glouton: Pro. Flesh of a Mutton is food for a glutton; (or was held so in old times, when Beefe and Bacon were your onely dainties.) Cot.]  / Stewed feysaund / Swan [The rule for the succession of dishes is stated in Liber Cure, p. 55, as whole-footed birds first, and of these the greatest, as swan, goose, and drake, to precede. Afterwards come baked meats and other dainties.]  with the Chawdwyn, [See note to l. 535 above.] 
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                    Capoun, pigge / vensoun bake, leche lombard [See the Recipe for Leche Lumbard in Household Ordinances, p. 438. Pork, eggs, pepper, cloves, currants, dates, sugar, pow|dered together, boiled in a bladder, cut into strips, and served with hot rich sauce.]  / fruture viaunt [Meat fritter?, mentioned in l. 501.]  fyne;

A Sotelte

And þan a Sotelte: Maydon mary þat holy virgyne, And Gabrielle gretynge hur / with an Ave. 692