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 ...

                                
                                  Feysaunt, partriche, plouer, & lapewynk, y yow say,
                                
                                  areyse [Fr. arracher. To root vp . . pull away by violence. Cotgrave.]  þe whynges furst / do as y yow pray;
                                
                                  In þe dische forthe-withe, boþe þat ye ham lay,
                                
                                  þan aftur þat / þe leggus / without lengur delay.
                                  Line 420 
                                
                                  wodcok / Betowre [The Bittern or Bittour, Ardea Stellaris.]  / Egret [Egrette, as Aigrette; A foule that resembles a Heron. Aigrette (A foule verie like a Heron, but white); a criell Heron, or dwarfe Heron. Cot. Ardea alba, A crielle or dwarfe heron. Cooper.]  / Snyte [Snype, or snyte, byrde, Ibex. P.P. A snipe or snite: a bird lesse than a woodcocke. Gallinago minor, &c. Baret.]  / and Curlew,
                                
                                  heyrounsew [A small Heron or kind of Heron; Shakspere's editors' hand|saw. The spelling heronshaw misled Cotgrave, &c.; he has Hai|ronniere. A herons neast, or ayrie; a herne-shaw, or shaw of wood, wherein herons breed. 'An Hearne. Ardea. A hearnsew, Ardeola.' Baret, 1580. 'Fr. heronceau, a young heron, gives E. heronshaw,' Wedgwood. I cannot find heronceau, only heronneau. 'A yong herensew is lyghter of dygestyon than a crane. A. Borde. Regy|ment, fol. F i, ed. 1567. 'In actual application a heronshaw, hernshaw or hernsew, is simply a Common Heron (Ardea Vulgaris) with no distinction as to age, &c.' Atkinson.]  / resteratiff þey ar / & so is the brewe; [The Brewe is mentioned three times, and each time in con|nection with the Curlew. I believe it to be the Whimbrel (Numeni|us Phæopus) or Half Curlew. I have a recollection (or what seems like it) of having seen the name with a French form like Whim|breau. [Pennant's British Zoology, ii. 347, gives Le petit Courly, ou le Courlieu, as the French synonym of the Whimbrel.] Morris (Orpen) says the numbers of the Whimbrel are lessening from their being sought as food. Atkinson.] 
                                
                                  þese .vij. fowles / must be vnlaced, y telle yow trew,
                                
                                  breke þe pynons / nek, & beek, þus ye must þem shew.
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                                  Thus ye must þem vnlace / & in thus manere: [folio 177a] 
                                
                                  areyse þe leggis / suffire þeire feete stille to be on there,
                                
                                  þan þe whynges in þe dische / ye may not þem forbere,

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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,
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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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