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 ...

                                
                                  To seche þe kyngdam of god, my chylde,
                                
                                  Þerto y rede þou be not wylde.
                                  Line 156 
                                
                                  ¶ Ther-fore worschip god, bothe olde and ȝong,
                                
                                  To be in body and soule yliche stronge.
                                
                                  When þou comes to þo chirche dore,
                                
                                  Take þe haly water stondand on flore;
                                  Line 160 
                                
                                  ¶ Rede or synge or byd prayeris
                                
                                  To crist, for alle þy crysten ferys;
                                
                                  Be curtayse to god, and knele doun
                                
                                  On bothe knees with grete deuocioun.
                                  Line 164 
                                
                                  ¶ To mon þou shalle knele opon þe ton,
                                
                                  Þe toþer to þy self þou halde alon.
                                
                                  When þou ministers at þe heghe autere,
                                
                                  With bothe hondes þou serue þo prest in fere,
                                  Line 168 
                                
                                  Þe ton to stabulle þe toþer
                                
                                  Lest þou fayle, my dere broþer.
                                
                                  ¶ Anoþer curtayse y wylle þe teche,
                                
                                  Thy fadur And modur, with mylde speche, [folio 15] 
                                  Line 172 
                                
                                  In worschip and serue with alle þy myȝt,
                                
                                  Þat þou dwelle þe lengur in erthely lyȝt.
                                
                                  ¶ To anoþer man do no more amys
                                
                                  Then þou woldys be don of hym and hys;
                                  Line 176 
                                
                                  So crist þou pleses, and getes þe loue
                                
                                  Of men and god þat syttis aboue.
                                
                                  ¶ Be not to meke, but in mene þe holde,
                                
                                  For ellis a fole þou wylle be tolde.
                                  Line 180 
                                
                                  He þat to ryȝtwysnes wylle enclyne,
                                
                                  As holy wryȝt says vs wele and fyne,
                                
                                  His sede schalle neuer go seche hor brede,
                                
                                  Ne suffur of mon no shames dede.
                                  Line 184 
                                
                                  ¶ To for-gyf þou shalle þe hast;
                                
                                  To veniaunce loke þou come on last;
                                
                                  Draw þe to pese with alle þy strengþe;
                                
                                  Fro stryf and bate draw þe on lengþe.
                                  Line 188 
                                
                                  ¶ Yf mon aske þe good for goddys sake,
                                
                                  And þe wont thynge wher-of to take,

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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 304
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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