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 7, 2025.

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¶ De venatore et suis canibus.

                  
                    ¶ A halpeny þo hunte takes on þe day
                  
                    For euery hounde, þo sothe to say:
                  
                    Þo vewter, two cast of brede he tase,
                  
                    Two lesshe of grehoundes yf þat he hase;
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                    To yche a bone, þat is to telle,
                  
                    If I to ȝou þe sothe shalle spelle;
                  
                    By-syde hys vantage þat may be-falle,
                  
                    Of skynnes and oþer thynges with-alle,
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                    Þat hunteres con telle better þan I,
                  
                    Þer-fore I leue hit wytt[ur]ly.