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 ...

                                  
                                    As y rose owt of my bed, in a mery sesoun of may,
                                  
                                    to sporte me in a forest / where sightes were fresche & gay,
                                  
                                    y met with þe forster / y prayed hym to say me not nay,
                                  
                                    þat y mygh[t] walke in to his lawnde [The Lawnd in woodes. Saltus nemorum. Baret, 1580. Saltus, a launde. Glossary in Rel. Ant., v. 1, p. 7, col. 1; saltus, a forest-pasture, woodland-pasture, woodland; a forest.]  where þe deere lay.
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                                    as y wandered weldsomly [at will. A.S. wilsum, free willed.]  / in-to þe lawnd þat was so grene,
                                  
                                    þer lay iij. herdis of deere / a semely syght for to sene;
                                  
                                    y behild on my right hand / þe son þat shon so shene;
                                  
                                    y saw where walked / a semely yonge man, þat sklendur was & leene;
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                                    his bowe he toke in hand toward þe deere to stalke;
                                  
                                    y prayed hym his shote to leue / & softely with me to walke.
                                  
                                    þis yonge man was glad / & louyd with me to talke,
                                  
                                    he prayed þat he myȝt withe me goo / in to som herne [A.S. hirne, corner. Dan. hiörne.]  or halke [Halke or hyrne. Angulus, latibulum; A.S. hylca, sinus. Promptorium Parvulorum and note.] ;
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                                    þis yonge man y frayned [AS. fregnan, to ask; Goth., fraihnan; Germ., fragen.]  / with hoom þat he wonned þan,
                                  
                                    "So god me socoure," he said / "Sir, y serue my|self / & els noon oþer man."
                                  
                                    "is þy gouernaunce good?" y said, / "son? say me ȝiff þow can."
                                  
                                    "y wold y were owt of þis world" / seid he / "y ne rouȝt how sone whan."

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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 118
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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