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 ...

¶ De Officio garcionum. [Compare H. Ord. p. 39. 'Yeomen of Chambre, IIII, to make beddes, to bere or hold torches, to sette bourdes, to apparayle all chaumbres, and suche other servyce as the chaumberlayn, or usshers of chambre command or assigne.' Liber Niger Edw. IV. See also H. Ord. p. 40, Office of Warderobe of Beddes, p. 41, Gromes of Chambyr, X; and the elaborate directions for making Henry VII.'s bed, H. Ord. p. 121-2.]

¶ Gromes palettis shyn fyle and make litere, [Hoc stramentum, lyttere, p. 260, col. 2 (the straw with which the bed was formerly made), Wright's Vocabularies.] ix fote on lengthe with-out diswere; Line 436 vij fote y-wys hit shalle be brode, Wele watered, I-wrythen, be craft y-trode, Wyspes drawen out at fete and syde, Wele wrethyn and turnyd a-ȝayne þat tyde; Line 440 On legh vnsonken hit shalle be made, To þo gurdylstode hegh on lengthe and brade. For lordys two beddys schalle be made, Bothe vtter and inner, so god me glade, Line 444 Þat henget shalle be with hole sylour, [Sylure, of valle, or a nother thynge (sylure of a walle), Cela|tura, Celamen, Catholicon, in P. Parv. Fr. Ciel, Heauen, pl. Ciels, a canopie for, and, the Testerne and Valances of a Bed. Cotgrave. A tester over the beadde, canopus. Withals.] With crochettis [Crochet, a small hooke.] and loupys sett on lyour; [Lyowre, to bynde wythe precyows clothys. Ligatorium. P. Parv.] ¶ Þo valance on fylour [Fylowre, of barbours crafte, Acutecula, filarium. P. Parv. See note 3, p. 160.] shalle henge with wyn, iij curteyns streȝt drawen with-inne, Line 448 Þat reche schalle euen to grounde a-boute, Noþer more, noþer lesse, with-outen doute; He strykes hom vp with forket wande, And lappes vp fast a-boute þe lyft hande; Line 452

Line 452 Þo knop vp turnes, and closes on ryȝt, ¶ As bolde by nek þat henges fulle lyȝt. [folio 20] Þo counturpynt he lays on beddys fete, Qwysshenes on sydes shyn lye fulle mete. Line 456 Tapetis [Tapet, a clothe, tappis. Palsgrave, 1530. Tapis, Tapistrie, hangings, &c., of Arras. Cotgrave, 1611. Tapis, carpet, a green square-plot. Miegc, 1684. The hangynges of a house or chambre, in plurali, aulæa . . Circundo cubiculum aulæis, to hange the chambre. The carpettes, tapetes. Withals.] of spayne on flore by syde, Þat sprad shyn be for pompe and pryde; Þo chambur sydes ryȝt to þo dore, He henges with tapetis þat ben fulle store; Line 460 And fuel to chymné hym falle to gete, And screnes in clof to y-saue þo hete. Fro þo lorde at mete when he is sett, Borde, trestuls, and fourmes, with-outen let; Line 464 ¶ Alle thes þynges kepe schalle he, And water in chafer for laydyes fre; iij perchers of wax þen shalle he fet, A-boue þo chymné þat be sett, Line 468 In syce [And he (a Grome of Chambyr) setteth nyghtly, after the seasons of the yere, torchys, tortays, candylles of wax, mortars; and he setteth up the sises in the King's chambre, H. Ord. p. 41, 'these torches, five, seven, or nine; and as many sises sett upp as there bee torches,' ib. p. 114; and dayly iiii other of these gromes, called wayters, to make fyres, to sett up tressyls and bourdes, with yomen of chambre, and to help dresse the beddes of sylke and arras. H. Ord. p. 41.] ichon from oþer shalle be Þe lenghthe of oþer þat men may se, To brenne, to voide, þat dronkyn is, Oþer ellis I wote he dose Amys. Line 472 Þo vssher alle-way shalle sitt at dore At mete, and walke schalle on þe flore, To se þat alle be seruet on ryȝt, Þat is his office be day and nyȝt; Line 476 And byd set borde when tyme schalle be, And take hom vp when tyme ses he.

¶ The wardrop [Wardroppe, or closet—garderobe. Palsgrave.] he herbers and eke of chambur Ladyes with bedys of coralle and lambur, Line 480 Þo vsshere schalle bydde þo wardropere Make redy for alle nyȝt be-fore þe fere; Þen bryngis he forthe nyȝt goun also, And spredys a tapet and qwysshens two, Line 484 He layes hom þen opon a fourme, And foteshete þer-on and hit returne. ¶ Þo lorde schalle skyft hys gown at nyȝt, Syttand on foteshete tyl he be dyȝt. Line 488 Þen vssher gose to þo botré, "Haue in for alle nyȝt, syr," says he; Fyrst to þe chaundeler he schalle go, To take a tortes lyȝt hym fro; Line 492 ¶ Bothe wyne and ale he tase indede, Þo botler says, with-outen drede, No mete for mon schalle sayed [See the duties of Edward IV.'s Sewar, H. Ord. p. 36.] be, Bot for kynge or prynce or duke so fre; Line 496 For heiers of paraunce also y-wys, Mete shalle be sayed, now thenkys on this. Þen to pantré he hyȝes be-lyue, ¶ "Syrs, haue in with-outen stryffe;" Line 500 Manchet and chet [Manchet was the fine bread; chet, the course. Fr. pain rouffet, Cheat, or boulted bread; houshold bread made of Wheat and Rie mingled. Cotgrave.] bred he shalle take, Þo pantere assayes þat hit be bake; A morter of wax ȝet wille he bryng, Fro chambur, syr, with-out lesyng; Line 504 Þat alle nyȝt brennes in bassyn clere, To saue þo chambur on nyȝt for fyre. ¶ Þen ȝomon of chambur shynne voyde with ryme, The torches han holden wele þat tyme; Line 508 Tho chambur dore stekes þo vssher thenne, With preket and tortes þat conne brenne;

Fro cupborde he brynges bothe brede and wyne, And fyrst assayes hit wele a[nd] fyne. Line 512 But fyrst þe lorde shalle vasshe I-wys, [folio 21] Fro þo fyr hous when he comen is; Þen kneles þe vssher and gyfes hym drynke, Brynges hym in bed where he shalle wynke; Line 516 In strong styd on palet he lay, At home tase lefe and gose his way; Ȝomon vssher be-fore þe dore, In vttur chambur lies on þe flore. Line 520