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 ...

                                
                                  Pare awey þe red skyn for dyuers cawse & dowt,
                                
                                  and make clene þe place also / þat ye calle his gowt, [No doubt the intestinal tract, running along the middle of the body and tail. Dr Günther. Of Crevisses and Shrimps, Muffett says, p. 177, they "give also a kind of exercise for such as be weak: for head and brest must first be divided from their bodies; then each of them must be dis scaled, and clean picked with much pidling; then the long gut lying along the back of the Crevisse is to be voided."] 
                                
                                  hit lies in þe myddes of þe bak / looke ye pike it owt;
                                  Line 608 
                                
                                  areise hit by þe þyknes of a grote / þe fische rownd abowt.
                                
                                  put it in a dische leese by lees [slice by slice.]  / & þat ye not forgete
                                
                                  to put vinegre to þe same / so it towche not þe mete;
                                
                                  breke þe gret clawes youre self / ye nede no cooke to trete,
                                  Line 612 
                                
                                  Set þem on þe table / ye may / with-owt any maner heete.
                                
                                  The bak of þe Crevise, þus he must be sted:
                                
                                  array hym as ye dothe / þe crabbe, if þat any be had,
                                
                                  and boþe endes of þe shelle / Stoppe them fast with bred,
                                  Line 616 
                                
                                  & serue / youre souereyn þer with / as he likethe to be fedd.
                                
                                  Of Crevis dewe douȝ [The fresh-water crayfish is beautiful eating, Dr Günther says.]  Cut his bely a-way, [folio 180a] 
                                
                                  þe fische in A dische clenly þat ye lay
                                
                                  with vineger & powdur þer vppon, þus is vsed ay,
                                  Line 620 
                                
                                  þan youre souerayne / whan hym semethe, sadly he may assay.

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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 159
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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