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 ...

The third course.

                                  
                                    Creme of almond ["Creme of Almond Mylk." H. Ord. p. 447.]  Iardyne // & mameny [See the recipe, p. 53 of this volume.]  // good & fyne //
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                                    Potage for þe .iijd seruyse.
                                  
                                    Fresch sturgen / breme de mere // Perche in Iely / oryent & clere //
                                  
                                    whelkes, menuse; þus we devise:
                                  
                                    Shrympis / Fresch herynge bryled // pety perueis may not be exiled,
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                                    leche fryture, [Compare "leche fryes made of frit and friture," H. Ord. p. 449; Servise on Fisshe Day, last line.]  a tansey gyse //
                                  
                                    The sotelte / a man with sikelle in his hande, In a ryvere of watur stande /
                                  
                                    wrapped in wedes in a werysom wyse,
                                  
                                    hauynge no deynteithe to daunce:
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                                    þe thrid age of man by liklynes;
                                  
                                    hervist we clepe hym, fulle of werynes:
                                  
                                    ȝet þer folowythe mo þat we must dres,
                                  
                                    regardes riche þat ar fulle of plesaunce.
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The .iiij. course of frute.

                                    
                                      Whot appuls & peres with sugre Candy, [folio 182b] 
                                    
                                      Withe Gyngre columbyne, mynsed manerly,
                                    
                                      Wafurs with ypocras.
                                    
                                      Now þis fest is fynysched / for to make glad chere:
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                                      and þaughe so be þat þe vse & manere
                                    
                                      not afore tyme be seyn has,
                                    
                                      Neuerthelese aftur my symple affeccion
                                    
                                      y must conclude with þe fourth compleccion,
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                                      'yemps' þe cold terme of þe yere,
                                    
                                      Wyntur / with his lokkys grey / febille & old,
                                    
                                      Syttynge vppon þe stone / bothe hard & cold,
                                    
                                      Nigard in hert & hevy of chere.

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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 168
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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