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 ...

an on þe same arme ley þy soueraignes napkyn honestly; Line 196 Þan lay on þat arme viij. louys bred / with iij. or iiij. trenchere lovis; Take þat oo ende of þy towaile / in þy lift hand, as þe maner is, and þe salt Sellere in þe same hand, looke þat ye do this; þat oþer ende of þe towaile / in riȝt hand with spones & knyffes y-wis; Line 200 Set youre salt on þe right side / where sittes youre soverayne, on þe lyfft Side of youre salt / sett youre trencher oon & twayne, on þe lifft side of your trenchoure lay youre knyffe synguler & playn; and on þe .... [[a space in the MS.]] side of youre knyffes / oon by on þe white payne; Line 204 youre spone vppon a napkyn fayre / ȝet folden wold he be, besides þe bred it wold be laid, son, y telle the: Cover your spone / napkyn, trencher, & knyff, þat no man hem se. at þe oþer ende of þe table / a salt with ij. trench|ers sett ye. Line 208
Sir, [[? MS.]] ȝeff þow wilt wrappe þy soueraynes bred stately, Thow must square & proporcioun þy bred clene & evenly, and þat no loof ne bunne be more þan oþer pro|porcionly, and so shaltow make þy wrappe for þy master manerly; Line 212 þan take a towaile of Raynes, [Fine cloth, originally made at Rennes, in Bretagne.] of ij. yardes and half wold it be,
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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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