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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ Sitthen to þo left honde þy neghe þou cast;
                                
                                  To hom þou boghe withouten wrast [AS. wræsten, to writhe, twist.] ;
                                
                                  Take hede to ȝomon on þy ryght honde,
                                
                                  And sithen byfore the screne þou stonde
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                                  ¶ In myddys þe halle opon þe flore,
                                
                                  Whille marshalle or vssher come fro þe dore,
                                
                                  And bydde the sitte, or to borde the lede.
                                
                                  Be stabulle of chere for menske [grace, civility; from AS. mennisc, human; cp. our double sense of humanity. H. Coleridge.] , y rede;
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                                  ¶ Yf he þe sette at gentilmonnes borde,
                                
                                  Loke þou be hynde [courteous.]  and lytulle of worde.
                                
                                  Pare þy brede and kerue in two,
                                
                                  Tho ouer crust þo nether fro;
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                                  ¶ In fowre þou kutt þo ouer dole,
                                
                                  Sett hom to-gedur as hit where hole;
                                
                                  Sithen kutt þo nether crust in thre,
                                
                                  And turnc hit down, lerne þis at me.
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                                  ¶ And lay thy trenchour þe be-fore,
                                
                                  And sitt vp-ryȝht for any sore.
                                
                                  Spare brede or wyne, drynke or ale,
                                
                                  To thy messe of kochyn be sett in sale;
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                                  ¶ Lest men sayne þou art hongur betcn,
                                
                                  Or ellis a gloten þat alle men wyten,
                                
                                  Loke þy naylys ben clene in blythe,
                                
                                  Lest þy felaghe lothe ther-wyth.
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                                  ¶ Byt not on thy brede and lay hit doun,—
                                
                                  That is no curteyse to vse in town;—
                                
                                  But breke as myche as þou wylle ete,
                                
                                  The remelant to pore þou shalle lete.
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                                  ¶ In peese þou ete, and euer eschewe
                                
                                  To flyte [AS. flytan, dispute, quarrel.]  at borde; þat may þe rewe.
                                
                                  Yf þou make mawes [Mowe, or skorne. Vangia, vel valgia, cachinna. Promptorium.]  on any wyse,
                                
                                  A velany þou kacches or euer þou rise.

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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 300
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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