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 ...

                                
                                  ¶ Let neuer þy cheke be Made to grete [folio 13] 
                                
                                  With morselle of brede þat þou shalle ete;
                                
                                  An apys mow men sayne he makes,
                                
                                  Þat brede and flesshe in hys cheke bakes.
                                  Line 60 
                                
                                  ¶ Yf any man speke þat tyme to the,
                                
                                  And þou schalle onsware, hit wille not be
                                
                                  But waloande, and a-byde þou most;
                                
                                  Þat is a schame for alle the host.
                                  Line 64 
                                
                                  ¶ On bothe halfe þy mouthe, yf þat þou ete,
                                
                                  Mony a skorne shalle þou gete.
                                
                                  Þou shalle not lauȝhe ne speke no þynge
                                
                                  Whille þi mouthe be fulle of mete or drynke;
                                  Line 68 
                                
                                  ¶ Ne suppe not with grete sowndynge
                                
                                  Noþer potage ne oþer þynge.
                                
                                  Let not þi spone stond in þy dysche,
                                
                                  Wheþer þou be serued with fleshe or fische;
                                  Line 72 
                                
                                  ¶ Ne lay hit not on thy dishe syde,
                                
                                  But clense hit honestly with-outen pride.
                                
                                  Loke no browynge on þy fyngur þore
                                
                                  Defoule þe clothe þe be-fore.
                                  Line 76 
                                
                                  ¶ In þi dysche yf þou wete þy brede,
                                
                                  Loke þer-of þat noȝt be lede
                                
                                  To cast agayne þy dysche in-to;
                                
                                  Þou art vn-hynde yf þou do so.
                                  Line 80 
                                
                                  ¶ Drye þy mouthe ay wele and fynde
                                
                                  When þou schalle drynke oþer ale or wyne.
                                
                                  Ne calle þou noȝt a dysche a-ȝayne,
                                
                                  Þat ys take fro þe borde in playne;
                                  Line 84 
                                
                                  ¶ ȝif þou sp[i]tt ouer the borde, or elles opon,
                                
                                  Þou schalle be holden an vncurtayse mon;
                                
                                  Yf þy nown dogge þou scrape or clawe,
                                
                                  Þat is holden a vyse emong men knawe.
                                  Line 88 
                                
                                  ¶ Yf þy nose þou clense, as may be-falle,
                                
                                  Loke þy honde þou clense, as wythe-alle,
                                
                                  Priuely with skyrt do hit away,
                                
                                  Oþer ellis thurghe thi tepet þat is so gay.

                                  Line 92

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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 301
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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