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 ...

                                
                                  Lette not þy contynaunce also abate,
                                
                                  For good nurtur wylle saue þy state;
                                
                                  Fadyr & modyr, what euur þey be,
                                
                                  Welle ys þe chylde þat may the:
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                                  In halle, in chambur, ore where þou gon,
                                
                                  Nurtur & good maners makeþ man.
                                
                                  To þe nexte degre loke þou wysely
                                
                                  To do hem Reuerence by and by:
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                                  Do hem no Reuerens, but sette alle in Rowe
                                
                                  But ȝyf þou þe bettur do hym knowe.
                                
                                  To þe mete when þou art sette,
                                
                                  Fayre & honestly thow ete hyt: [folio 86b:1] 
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                                  Fyrste loke þat þy handes be clene,
                                
                                  And þat þy knyf be sharpe & kene;
                                
                                  And cutte þy breed & alle þy mete
                                
                                  Ryȝth euen as þou doste hit ete.
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                                  If þou sytte be a worthyor man
                                
                                  Then þy self thow art on,
                                
                                  Suffre hym fyrste to towche þe mete
                                
                                  Ere þy self any þer-of gete;
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                                  To þe beste morselle þou may not stryke
                                
                                  Thowȝ þou neuur so welle hit lyke.
                                
                                  Also kepe þy hondys fayre & welle
                                
                                  Fro fylynge of the towelle,
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                                  Ther-on þou shalt not þy nose wype;
                                
                                  Noþur at þy mete þy toth þou pyke;
                                
                                  To depe in þy cuppe þou may not synke
                                
                                  Thowȝ þou haue good wylle to drynke,
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                                  Leste þy eyen water þere by,
                                
                                  Then ys hyt no curtesy.
                                
                                  Loke yn þy mowth be no mete
                                
                                  When þou begynneste to drynke or speke;
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                                  Also when þou sest any man drynkyng
                                
                                  That taketh hede of þy karpyng,
                                
                                  Soone a-non þou sece þy tale,
                                
                                  Wheþur he drynke wyne or Ale.

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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 14
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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