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 ...

                                
                                  And honowre and curtesy loke þou kepe,
                                  Line 52 
                                
                                  And at the tabylle loke þou make goode chere;
                                
                                  Loke þou rownde not in no mannys ere.
                                
                                  With thy fyngerys þou towche and taste
                                
                                  Thy mete; And loke þou doo noo waste.
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                                  Loke þou laughe not, nor grenne;
                                
                                  And with moche speche þou mayste do synne.
                                
                                  Mete ne drynke loke þou ne spylle,
                                
                                  But sette hit downe fayre and stylle.]
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  Kepe thy cloth clene the byforne,
                                
                                  And bere the so [that]  thow haue no scorne. [folio 207a] 
                                
                                  Byte not þi mete, but kerve it [cut hit]  clene,
                                
                                  Be welle ware no [that noo]  drop be sene.
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                                  Whan þou etyst, gape not to wyde
                                
                                  That þi mouth be sene on yche a [be in euery]  syde.
                                
                                  And son, beware, I rede, of [be ware of]  on thyng,
                                
                                  Blow neþer [þou not]  yn thi mete nor yn þi [mete not]  drynk.
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                                  And yif thi lorde drynk at þat tyde,
                                
                                  Drynk þou not, but hym abyde;
                                
                                  Be it at Evyne, be it at noone, [morowe, (and omits next line.)] 
                                
                                  Drynk þou not tylle he haue done.
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  Vpon þi trencher no fyllthe þou see, [be sene] 
                                
                                  It is not honest, as I telle the;
                                
                                  Ne drynk [Drynke þou not]  behynde no mannes bakke,
                                
                                  For yf þou do, thow art to lakke. [blame] 
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                                  And chese come forthe, [by-fore the]  be not to gredy, [redy] 
                                
                                  Ne cutte þow not therof to hastely. [To cut there-of be not to gredy.] 
                                
                                  Caste not þi bones ynto the flore,
                                
                                  But ley þem [hem]  fayre on þi trenchore.
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                                  Kepe clene þi cloth byfore þe [þe omitted.]  alle; [The parts between square brackets [] are from the Egerton MS.]

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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 20
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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