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 ...

take þy towaile by the endes dowble / and faire on a table lay ye, þan take þe end of þat bought / an handfulle in hande, now here ye me: wrap ye hard þat handfulle or more it is þe styffer, y telle þe, Line 216 Þan ley betwene þe endes so wrapped, in myddes of þat towelle, viij loves or bonnes, botom to botom, forsothe it wille do welle, and when þe looffes ar betwen, þan wrappe hit wisely & felle; and for youre enformacioun more playnly y wille yow telle, Line 220 ley it on þe vpper part of þe bred, y telle yow [folio 174a] honestly; take boþe endis of þe towelle, & draw þem straytly, and wrythe an handfulle of þe towelle next þe bred myghtily, and se þat thy wrappere be made strayt & evyn styffely. Line 224 when he is so y-graithed, [A.S. gerædian, to make ready, arrange, prepare.] as riȝt before y haue saide, þen shalle ye open hym thus / & do hit at a brayd, open þe last end of þy wrappere before þi souerayne laid, and youre bred sett in maner & forme: þen it is honestly arayd. Line 228
Son, when þy souereignes table is drest in þus array, kouer alle oþer bordes with Saltes; trenchers & cuppes þeron ye lay; þan emperialle þy Cuppeborde / with Siluer & gild fulle gay,
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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 ...
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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
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England -- Social life and customs

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