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 ...

                                  
                                    Furþer þan his office / & þer-to let hym take good hede,
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                                    and his warde wayte wisely // & euermore þer-in haue drede;
                                  
                                    Þus doynge his dewte dewly, to dowte he shalle not nede.

                                  
                                    ¶ Tastynge and credence [Credence as creance . . a taste or essay taken of another man's meat. Cotgrave.]  longethe to blode & birth royalle, [Compare The Boke of Curtasye, below, l. 495-8,
No mete for mon schalle sayed beBot for kynge or prynce or duke so fre;For heiers of paraunce also y-wysMete shalle be seyed.] 
                                  
                                    As pope / emperoure / Emperatrice, and Car|dynalle,
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                                    kynge / queene / prynce / Archebischoppe in palle,
                                  
                                    Duke / Erle, and no mo / þat y to remembraunce / calle.

                                  
                                    ¶ Credence is vsed, & tastynge, for drede of poy|senynge,
                                  
                                    To alle officers y-sworne / and grete othe by chargynge;
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                                    þerfore vche man in office kepe his rome sewre, closynge
                                  
                                    Cloos howse / chest / & gardevyan [Gardmanger (Fr.) a Storehouse for meat. Blount, ed. 1681, Garde-viant, a Wallet for a Soldier to put his Victuals in. Phillipps, ed. 1701.] , for drede of congettynge.

                                  
                                    ¶ Steward and Chamburlayn of a prince of royalte,
                                  
                                    þey haue / knowleche of homages, seruice, and fewte;
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                                    so þey haue ouersight of euery office / aftur þeire degre,

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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 196
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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