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 ...

                                
                                  and to þy mastir be trew / his goodes þat þow not spille,
                                
                                  but hym loue & drede / and hys commaundementȝ dew / fulfylle.
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                                  The furst yere, my son, þow shalle be pantere or buttilare,
                                
                                  þow must haue iij. knyffes kene / in pantry, y sey the, euermare:
                                
                                  On knyfe þe loves to choppe, anothere them for to pare,
                                
                                  the iij. sharpe & kene to smothe þe trenchurs and square. [In Sir John Fastolfe's Bottre, 1455, are "ij. kerving knyves; iij. kneyves in a schethe, the haftys of every (ivory) withe naylys gilt . . . j. trencher-knyfe." Domestic Arch., v. 3, p. 157-8. Hec mensacula, a dressyng-knyfe, p. 256; trencher-knyves, mensa|culos. Jn. de Garlande, Wright's Vocab. p. 123.] 
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                                  alwey thy soueraynes bred thow choppe, & þat it be newe & able;
                                
                                  se alle oþer bred a day old or þou choppe to þe table;
                                
                                  alle howsold bred iij. dayes old / so it is profitable;
                                
                                  and trencher bred iiij. dayes is convenyent & agre|able.
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                                  loke þy salte be sutille, whyte, fayre and drye,
                                
                                  and þy planere for thy salte / shalle be made of yverye /
                                
                                  þe brede þerof ynches two / þen þe length, ynche told thrye;
                                
                                  and þy salt sellere lydde / towche not thy salt bye.
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                                  Good son, loke þat þy napery be soote / & also feyre & clene,
                                
                                  bordclothe, towelle & napkyn, foldyn alle bydene.
                                
                                  bryght y-pullished youre table knyve, semely in syȝt to sene;
                                
                                  and þy spones fayre y-wasche / ye wote welle what y meene.

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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 120
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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