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 youre feet trampelynge, ne settynge youre leggis a shore [? shorewise, as shores. 'Schore, undur settynge of a þynge þat wolde falle.' P. Parv. Du. Schooren, To Under-prop. Aller eschays, To shale, stradle, goe crooked, or wide betweene the feet, or legs. Cotgrave.] ;
                                
                                  with youre body be not shrubbynge [Dutch Schrobben, To Rubb, to Scrape, to Scratch. Hexham.] ; Iettynge [Iettyn verno. P. Parv. Mr Way quotes from Palsgrave, "I iette, I make a countenaunce with my legges, ie me iamboye," &c.; and from Cotgrave, "Iamboyer, to iet, or wantonly to go in and out with the legs," &c.]  is no loore.
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                                  Good son, þy tethe be not pikynge, grisynge, [grinding.]  ne gnastynge [gnastyn (gnachyn) Fremo, strideo. Catholicon. Gnastyng of the tethe—stridevr, grincement. Palsg. Du. gnisteren, To Gnash, or Creake with the teeth. Hexham.] ;
                                
                                  ne stynkynge of brethe on youre souerayne castynge;
                                
                                  with puffynge ne blowynge, nowþer fulle ne fastynge;
                                
                                  and alle wey be ware of þy hyndur part from gunnes blastynge.
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                                  These Cuttid [Short coats and tight trousers were a great offence to old writers accustomed to long nightgown clothes. Compare Chaucer's complaint in the Canterbury Tales, The Parsones Tale, De Superbiâ, p. 193, col. 2, ed. Wright. "Upon that other syde, to speke of the horrible disordinat scantnes of clothing, as ben these cuttid sloppis or anslets, that thurgh her schortnes ne covereth not the schamful membre of man, to wickid entent. Alas! som men of hem schewen the schap and the boce of the horrible swollen membres, that semeth like to the maladies of hirnia, in the wrapping of here hose, and eek the buttokes of hem, that faren as it were the hinder part of a sche ape in the fulle of the moone." The continuation of the passage is very curious. "Youre schort gownys thriftlesse" are also noted in the song in Harl. MS. 372. See Weste, Booke of Demeanour, l. 141, below.]  galauntes with theire codware; þat is an vngoodly gise;—
                                
                                  Other tacches [Fr. tache, spot, staine, blemish, reproach. C.]  as towchynge / y spare not to myspraue aftur myne avise,—

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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,
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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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