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 ...

                                    
                                      ¶ With broþels ne boies loke þou with hem neuere play,
                                    
                                      For þat þou hem tellist þou schalt heere eft.
                                    
                                      And if þou se a wastour owher, y þee pray,
                                    
                                      His felowschip fayn y wolde þat þou left.
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                                      ¶ Medle not with mysrule by no maner way,
                                    
                                      For good maner he haþ from hym schifte;
                                    
                                      For y haue ofte seen þis in fay, [page 157] 
                                    
                                      Þat fro manye men he haþ manhode refte. [[? one stanza of 4 lines wanting]] 
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Take what you find or what you bring. [[MS. Trin. Coll. Cambridge, O. 9.38.]]

                                    
                                      hoo that comyȝt to an howse,
                                    
                                      loke he be noo thyng' dongerowse
                                    
                                      To take seche as he fyndyȝt;
                                    
                                      And yf he wolle not do soo,
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                                      Reson A-greeȝt there-too
                                    
                                      To take suche as he bryngyȝt.

The Reward of the Man who Beggars Himself. [[MS. Trin. Coll. Cambridge, O. 9.38, written as prose.]]

with thys bytel be he smete. þat alle þe worle mote hyt wete Þat yevyt hys goode to hys kynne. & goth hym sylfe A beggyng'

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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 35
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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