Þer is gentylmen, ȝomon-vssher also,
Two gromes at þo lest, A page þer-to,
¶ De Officio garcionum. [Compare H. Ord. p. 39. 'Yeomen of Chambre, IIII, to make beddes, to bere or hold torches, to sette bourdes, to apparayle all chaumbres, and suche other servyce as the chaumberlayn, or usshers of chambre command or assigne.' Liber Niger Edw. IV. See also H. Ord. p. 40, Office of Warderobe of Beddes, p. 41, Gromes of Chambyr, X; and the elaborate directions for making Henry VII.'s bed, H. Ord. p. 121-2.]
¶ Gromes palettis shyn fyle and make litere, [Hoc stramentum, lyttere, p. 260, col. 2 (the straw with which the bed was formerly made), Wright's Vocabularies.]
ix fote on lengthe with-out diswere;
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vij fote y-wys hit shalle be brode,
Wele watered, I-wrythen, be craft y-trode,
Wyspes drawen out at fete and syde,
Wele wrethyn and turnyd a-ȝayne þat tyde;
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On legh vnsonken hit shalle be made,
To þo gurdylstode hegh on lengthe and brade.
For lordys two beddys schalle be made,
Bothe vtter and inner, so god me glade,
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Þat henget shalle be with hole sylour, [Sylure, of valle, or a nother thynge (sylure of a walle), Cela|tura, Celamen, Catholicon, in P. Parv. Fr. Ciel, Heauen, pl. Ciels, a canopie for, and, the Testerne and Valances of a Bed. Cotgrave. A tester over the beadde, canopus. Withals.]
With crochettis [Crochet, a small hooke.] and loupys sett on lyour; [Lyowre, to bynde wythe precyows clothys. Ligatorium. P. Parv.]
¶ Þo valance on fylour [Fylowre, of barbours crafte, Acutecula, filarium. P. Parv. See note 3, p. 160.] shalle henge with wyn,
iij curteyns streȝt drawen with-inne,
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Þat reche schalle euen to grounde a-boute,
Noþer more, noþer lesse, with-outen doute;
He strykes hom vp with forket wande,
And lappes vp fast a-boute þe lyft hande;
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