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 ...

                                
                                  Þe potage fyrst with brede y-coruyn,
                                
                                  Couerys hom agayn lest þey ben storuyn;
                                
                                  With fysshe or flessh yf [they] be serued,
                                
                                  A morselle þer-of shalle he be keruyd;
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                                  And touche þe messe ouer alle aboute,
                                
                                  Þo sewer hit etis with-outen doute.
                                
                                  With baken mete yf he seruyd be þo,
                                
                                  Þo lydes vp-rered or he fyr go,
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                                  Þe past or pye he sayes with-inne,
                                
                                  Dippes bredde in graué no more ne mynne;
                                
                                  Ȝif þe baken mete be colde, as may byfalle,
                                
                                  A gobet of þo self he sayes with-alle.
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                                  But þou þat berys mete in hande,
                                
                                  Yf þo sewer stonde, loke þou stande;
                                
                                  Yf he knele, knele þou so longe for oȝt,
                                
                                  ¶ Tylle mete be sayde þat þou hase broght. [folio 26] 
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                                  As oft at hegh borde yf brede be nede,
                                
                                  The butler two louys takys indede;
                                
                                  Þat on settes down, þat oþer agayn
                                
                                  He barys to cupborde in towelle playn.
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                                  As oft as þe keruer fettys drynke,
                                
                                  Þe butler assayes hit how good hym thynke;
                                
                                  In þe lordys cupp þat leuys vndrynken,
                                
                                  Into þe almesdisshe hit schalle be sonken.
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                                  The keruer anon with-outen thouȝt,
                                
                                  Vnkouers þe cup þat he hase brouȝt;
                                
                                  Into þe couertoure wyn he powres owt,
                                
                                  Or in-to a spare pece, with-outen doute;
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                                  Assayes, an gefes þo lorde to drynke,
                                
                                  Or settes hit doun as hym goode thynke.
                                
                                  Þo keruer [Edward IV. had 'Bannerettes, IIII, or Bacheler Knights, to be kervers and cupberers in his Courte.' 'The kerver at the boarde, after the King is passed it, may chese for hymself one dyshe or two, that plentie is among. . . Theis kervers and cupberers. . them nedeth to be well spede in teking of degree in the schole of urbanytie.' H. Ord. p. 32-3.]  schalle kerue þo lordes mete,

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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 325
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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