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,

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

1868.

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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 June 18, 2025.

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¶ De Clerico coquine. [See the 'chyef clerke of kychyn,' t. Edw. IV., H. Ord. p. 70; and Henry VIII.'s Clerke of the Kitchen, A.D. 1539, ib. p. 235.]

                  
                    ¶ The clerke of þe cochyn shalle alle þyng breue,
                  
                    Of men of court, bothe lothe and leue,
                  
                    Of achatis and dispenses þen wrytes he,
                  
                    And wages for gromes and ȝemen fre;
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                    At dressour also he shalle stonde,
                  
                    And fett forthe mete dresset with honde;
                  
                    Þe spicery and store with hym shalle dwelle,
                  
                    And mony thynges als, as I noȝt telle,
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                    For clethyng of officers alle in fere,
                  
                    Saue þe lorde hym self and ladys dere.