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 ...

                                
                                  þe body þan in þe middes laid / like as y yow leere.
                                  Line 428 
                                
                                  The Crane is a fowle / þat stronge is with to fare;
                                
                                  þe whynges ye areyse / fulle large evyn thare;
                                
                                  of hyre trompe ["The singular structure of the windpipe and its convolutions lodged between the two plates of bone forming the sides of the keel of the sternum of this bird (the Crane) have long been known. The trachea or windpipe, quitting the neck of the bird, passes downwards and backwards between the branches of the merry|thought towards the inferior edge of the keel, which is hollowed out to receive it. Into this groove the trachea passes, . . . and after making three turns passes again forwards and upwards and ultimately backwards to be attached to the two lobes of the lungs." Yarrell, Brit. Birds ii. 441. Atkinson.]  in þe brest / loke þat ye beware.
                                
                                  towche not hir trompe / euermore þat ye spare.
                                  Line 432 
                                
                                  Pecok / Stork / Bustarde / & Shovellewre,
                                
                                  ye must vnlace þem in þe plite [Way, manner. Plyte or state (plight, P.). Status. P. Parv.]  / of þe crane prest & pure,
                                
                                  so þat vche of þem haue þeyre feete aftur my cure,
                                
                                  and euer of a sharpe knyff wayte þat ye be sure.
                                  Line 436 
                                
                                  Of quayle / sparow / larke / & litelle / mertinet,
                                
                                  pygeoun / swalow / thrusche / osulle / ye not for|gete,
                                
                                  þe legges to ley to your souereyne ye ne lett,
                                
                                  and afturward þe whyngus if his lust be to ete.
                                  Line 440 
                                
                                  Off Fowen / kid / lambe, / þe kydney furst it lay,
                                
                                  Þan lifft vp the shuldur, do as y yow say,
                                
                                  Ȝiff he wille þerof ete / a rybbe to hym convay;
                                
                                  but in þe nek þe fyxfax [A sort of gristle, the tendon of the neck. Germ. flachse, Brockett. And see Wheatley's Dict. of Reduplicated Words.]  þat þow do away.
                                  Line 444 
                                
                                  venesoun rost / in þe dische if youre souerayne hit chese,
                                
                                  þe shuldir of a pigge furst / þan a rybbe, yf hit wille hym plese;

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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 144
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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