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 ...

                                
                                  Þou schalt enquere be curtasye
                                
                                  In what par[t] of þe bedde he wylle lye;
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                                  Be honest and lye þou fer hym fro,
                                
                                  Þou art not wyse but þou do so.
                                
                                  ¶ With woso men, boþe fer and negh,
                                
                                  The falle to go, loke þou be slegh
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                                  To aske his nome, and qweche he be,
                                
                                  Whidur he wille: kepe welle þes thre.
                                
                                  ¶ With freres on pilgrimage yf þat þou go,
                                
                                  Þat þei wille ȝyme, [AS. gȳman, attend, regard, observe, keep.]  wilne þou also;
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                                  Als on nyȝt þou take þy rest,
                                
                                  And byde þe day as tru mannes gest.
                                
                                  ¶ In no kyn house þat rede mon is,
                                
                                  Ne womon of þo same colour y-wys,
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                                  Take neuer þy Innes for no kyn nede,
                                
                                  For þose be folke þat ar to drede.
                                
                                  ¶ Yf any thurgh sturnes þe oppose,
                                
                                  Onswere hym mekely and make hym glose:
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                                  But glosand wordys þat falsed is,
                                
                                  Forsake, and alle that is omys.
                                
                                  ¶ Also yf þou haue a lorde,
                                
                                  And stondes by-fore hym at þe borde,
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                                  While þat þou speke, kepe welle þy honde,
                                
                                  Thy fete also in pece let stonde,
                                
                                  ¶ His curtasé nede he most breke,—
                                
                                  Stirraunt fyngurs toos when he shalle speke.
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                                  Be stabulle of chere and sumwhat lyȝt,
                                
                                  Ne ouer alle wayue þou not thy syȝt;
                                
                                  ¶ Gase not on walles with þy neghe [thine eye] ,
                                
                                  Fyr ne negh, logh ne heghe;
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                                  Let not þe post be-cum þy staf,
                                
                                  Lest þou be callet a dotet daf;
                                
                                  Ne delf þou neuer nose thyrle
                                
                                  With thombe ne fyngur, as ȝong gyrle;

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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 308
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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