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 ...

The Young Children's Book.

[From the Ashmolean MS. 61 (Bodleian Library), ab. 1500 A.D., fol. 20.]

                                    
                                      Who so euer wylle thryue or the,
                                    
                                      Muste vertus lerne, & curtas be;
                                    
                                      Fore who in ȝowthe no vertus vsythe,
                                    
                                      Yn Age All men hym refusythe.
                                      Line 4 
                                    
                                      Clerkys þat canne þe scyens seuene,
                                    
                                      Seys þat curtasy came fro heuen
                                    
                                      When gabryell owre lady grette,
                                    
                                      And elyȝabeth with here mette.
                                      Line 8 
                                    
                                      All vertus be closyde in curtasy,
                                    
                                      And Alle vyces in vilony.
                                    
                                      Aryse be tyme oute of thi bedde,
                                    
                                      And blysse þi brest & thi forhede,
                                      Line 12 
                                    
                                      Than wasche thi hondes & thi face,
                                    
                                      Keme þi hede, & Aske god grace
                                    
                                      The to helpe in All þi werkes;
                                    
                                      Thow schall spede better what so þou carpes.
                                      Line 16 
                                    
                                      Than go to þe chyrche, & here A messe,
                                    
                                      There aske mersy fore þi trespasse.
                                    
                                      To whom þou metys come by þe weye,
                                    
                                      Curtasly 'gode morne' þou sey.
                                      Line 20 
                                    
                                      When þou hast done, go breke thy faste
                                    
                                      With mete & drynke of gode repaste:
                                    
                                      Blysse þi mouthe or þou it ete,
                                    
                                      The better schalle be þi dyete.

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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 17
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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