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 ...

                                
                                  Þo knop vp turnes, and closes on ryȝt,
                                
                                  ¶ As bolde by nek þat henges fulle lyȝt. [folio 20] 
                                
                                  Þo counturpynt he lays on beddys fete,
                                
                                  Qwysshenes on sydes shyn lye fulle mete.
                                  Line 456 
                                
                                  Tapetis [Tapet, a clothe, tappis. Palsgrave, 1530. Tapis, Tapistrie, hangings, &c., of Arras. Cotgrave, 1611. Tapis, carpet, a green square-plot. Miegc, 1684. The hangynges of a house or chambre, in plurali, aulæa . . Circundo cubiculum aulæis, to hange the chambre. The carpettes, tapetes. Withals.]  of spayne on flore by syde,
                                
                                  Þat sprad shyn be for pompe and pryde;
                                
                                  Þo chambur sydes ryȝt to þo dore,
                                
                                  He henges with tapetis þat ben fulle store;
                                  Line 460 
                                
                                  And fuel to chymné hym falle to gete,
                                
                                  And screnes in clof to y-saue þo hete.
                                
                                  Fro þo lorde at mete when he is sett,
                                
                                  Borde, trestuls, and fourmes, with-outen let;
                                  Line 464 
                                
                                  ¶ Alle thes þynges kepe schalle he,
                                
                                  And water in chafer for laydyes fre;
                                
                                  iij perchers of wax þen shalle he fet,
                                
                                  A-boue þo chymné þat be sett,
                                  Line 468 
                                
                                  In syce [And he (a Grome of Chambyr) setteth nyghtly, after the seasons of the yere, torchys, tortays, candylles of wax, mortars; and he setteth up the sises in the King's chambre, H. Ord. p. 41, 'these torches, five, seven, or nine; and as many sises sett upp as there bee torches,' ib. p. 114; and dayly iiii other of these gromes, called wayters, to make fyres, to sett up tressyls and bourdes, with yomen of chambre, and to help dresse the beddes of sylke and arras. H. Ord. p. 41.]  ichon from oþer shalle be
                                
                                  Þe lenghthe of oþer þat men may se,
                                
                                  To brenne, to voide, þat dronkyn is,
                                
                                  Oþer ellis I wote he dose Amys.
                                  Line 472 
                                
                                  Þo vssher alle-way shalle sitt at dore
                                
                                  At mete, and walke schalle on þe flore,
                                
                                  To se þat alle be seruet on ryȝt,
                                
                                  Þat is his office be day and nyȝt;
                                  Line 476 
                                
                                  And byd set borde when tyme schalle be,
                                
                                  And take hom vp when tyme ses he.

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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 314
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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