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 ...

                                
                                  Clenli clad, his cloþis not all to-rent;
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                                  handis & face waschen fayre, his hed well kempt;
                                
                                  & war euer of fyre and candille þat he be not neccligent.
                                
                                  To youre mastir looke ye geue diligent attend|aunce;
                                
                                  be curteyse, glad of chere, & light of ere in euery semblaunce,
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                                  euer waytynge to þat thynge þat may do hym plesaunce:
                                
                                  to these propurtees if ye will apply, it may yow welle avaunce.
                                
                                  Se that youre souerayne haue clene shurt & breche,
                                
                                  a petycote, [A short or small coat worn under the long over-coat. Petycote, tunicula, P. P., and '.j. petticote of lynen clothe withought slyves,' there cited from Sir J. Fastolfe's Wardrobe, 1459. Archæol. xxi. 253. subucula, le, est etiam genus intimæ vestis, a peticote. Withals.]  a dublett, a longe coote, if he were suche,
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                                  his hosyn well brusshed, his sokkes not to seche,
                                
                                  his shon or slyppers as browne as is þe watur|leche.
                                
                                  In þe morow tyde, agaynst youre souerayne doth ryse,
                                
                                  wayte hys lynnyn þat hit be clene; þen warme hit in þis wise,
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                                  by a clere fyre withowt smoke / if it be cold or frese,
                                
                                  and so may ye youre souerayn plese at þe best asise.

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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 176
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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