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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ Clense not thi tethe at mete sittande,
                                
                                  With knyfe ne stre, styk ne wande.
                                
                                  While þou holdes mete in mouthe, be war
                                
                                  To drynke, þat is an-honest [an privative, unhonest.]  char,
                                  Line 96 
                                
                                  ¶ And also fysike for-bedes hit,
                                
                                  And sais þou may be choket at þat byt;
                                
                                  Yf hit go þy wrang throte into,
                                
                                  And stoppe þy wynde, þou art fordo.
                                  Line 100 
                                
                                  ¶ Ne telle þou neuer at borde no tale
                                
                                  To harme or shame þy felawe in sale;
                                
                                  For if he then withholde his methe [AS. mod, mood, passion, violence.] ,
                                
                                  Eftsons he wylle forcast þi dethe.
                                  Line 104 
                                
                                  ¶ Where-sere þou sitt at mete in borde,
                                
                                  Avoide þe cat at on bare worde,
                                
                                  For yf þou stroke cat oþer dogge,
                                
                                  Þou art lyke an ape teyȝed with a clogge.
                                  Line 108 
                                
                                  ¶ Also eschewe, with-outen stryfe,
                                
                                  To foule þe borde clothe with þi knyfe;
                                
                                  Ne blow not on þy drynke ne mete,
                                
                                  Neþer for colde, neþer for hete;
                                  Line 112 
                                
                                  ¶ With mete ne bere þy knyfe to mowthe,
                                
                                  Wheþer þou be sett be strong or couthe;
                                
                                  Ne with þo borde clothe þi tethe þou wype, [folio 14] 
                                
                                  Ne þy nyen þat rennen rede, as may betyde.
                                  Line 116 
                                
                                  ¶ Yf þou sitt by a ryȝht good man,
                                
                                  Þis lesson loke þou þenke apon:
                                
                                  Vndur his theȝghe þy kne not pit,
                                
                                  Þou ar fulle lewed yf þou dose hit.
                                  Line 120 
                                
                                  ¶ Ne bacwarde sittande gyf noȝt þy cupe,
                                
                                  Noþer to drynke, noþer to suppe;
                                
                                  Bidde þi frende take cuppe and drynke,
                                
                                  Þat is holden an honest thyng.
                                  Line 124 
                                
                                  ¶ Lene not on elbowe at þy mete,
                                
                                  Noþer for colde ne for hete;

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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 302
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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