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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 ...

How the Good Wiff tauȝte Hir Douȝtir.

[Lambeth MS. 853, ab. 1430 A.D., page 102; written without breaks. The various readings are from one of the MS. volumes of Lydgate's Works in Trin. Coll. Camb. Library, R. 3.19. I owe the readings to the kindness of Mr W. Aldis Wright.]

The good wijf tauȝte hir douȝtir Ful1 manye a tyme [Many tymes] & ofte A ful1 good womman to be, And seide "douȝtir to1 me1 dere, 4 Sum good þou must lere If euere1 [1-1 Omitted.] þou wolt þee.
Douȝtir, if þou wolt ben a wijf,3 Loke wijsly þat þou worche, 8 Loke loueli [page 103] and in good lijf Þou loue god & holi chirche.3 [3-3 wyse & wysely wyrke Loke thow loue welle thy god and holy chyrche] ¶ Go to chirche whanne þou may, Loke þou [&] spare for no reyn, 12 5For þou farist þe best þat ilke day Whanne5 [5-5 Alle the day thow faryst the bet þat] þou hast god y-seyn. 6He muste need weel þriue þat liueþ weel al his lyue,6 [6-6 Welle proueth that god loueth] 16 My leef child.
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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 ...
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Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1868.
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Home economics -- England.
Education -- England.
Etiquette, Medieval
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England -- Social life and customs

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