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 ...

                                
                                  þat þe sewere may make [make is repeated in the MS.]  a state / & plese his mastir welle.
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                                  whan þe state hath wasche, þe surnap drawne playne,
                                
                                  þen must ye bere forþe þe surnape before youre souerayne,
                                
                                  and so must ye take it vppe withe youre armes twayne,
                                
                                  and to þe Ewery bere hit youre silf agayne.
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                                  a-bowt youre nekke a towelle ye bere, so to serue youre lorde,
                                
                                  þan to hym make eurtesie, for so it wille accorde.
                                
                                  vnkeuer youre brede, & by þe salt sette hit euyn on þe borde;
                                
                                  looke þere be knyfe & spone / & napkyn with|outy[n] any worde.
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                                  Euer whan ye departe from youre soueraigne, looke [folio 174b]  ye bowe your knees;
                                
                                  to þe port-payne ["A Portpayne for the said Pantre, an elne longe and a yerd brode." The Percy, or Northumberland Household Book, 1512, (ed. 1827), p. 16, under Lynnon Clothe. 'A porte paine, to beare breade fro the Pantree to the table with, lintheum panarium.' Withals.]  forthe ye passe, & þere viij. loues ye leese:
                                
                                  Set at eiþur end of þe table .iiij. loofes at a mese,
                                
                                  þan looke þat ye haue napkyn & spone euery persone to plese.
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                                  wayte welle to þe Sewere how many potages keuered he;
                                
                                  keuer ye so many personis for youre honeste.
                                
                                  þan serve forthe youre table / vche persone to his degre,
                                
                                  and þat þer lak no bred / trenchoure, ale, & wyne / euermore ye se.

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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 133
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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