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 ...

                                
                                  Gyf hym boner wordys on fayre manere,
                                
                                  With glad semblaunt [[MS. semblamt]]  and pure good cher.
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                                  ¶ Also of seruice þou shalle be fre
                                
                                  To euery mon in hys degré.
                                
                                  Þou schalle neuer lose for to be kynde;
                                
                                  That on forȝetis anoþer hase in mynde.
                                  Line 196 
                                
                                  ¶ Yf Any man haue part with þe in gyft,
                                
                                  With hym þou make an euen skyft;
                                
                                  Let hit not henge in honde for glose,
                                
                                  Þou art vncurtayse yf þou hyt dose.
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                                  ¶ To sayntis yf þou þy gate hase hyȝt,
                                
                                  Thou schalle fulfylle hit with alle þy myȝt,
                                
                                  Lest god þe stryk with grete veniaunce,
                                
                                  And pyt þe in-to sore penaunce.
                                  Line 204 
                                
                                  ¶ Leue not alle men that speke þe fayre,
                                
                                  Wheþer þat hit ben comyns, burges, or mayre;
                                
                                  In swete wordis þe nedder was closet,
                                
                                  Disseyuaunt euer and mysloset;
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                                  Þer-fore þou art of adams blode,
                                
                                  With wordis be ware, but þou be wode:
                                
                                  A schort worde is comynly sothe
                                
                                  Þat fyrst slydes fro monnes tothe.
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                                  ¶ Loke lyȝer neuer þat þou be-come,
                                
                                  Kepe þys worde for alle and somme.
                                
                                  Lawȝe not to of[t] for no solace,
                                
                                  For no kyn myrthe þat any man mase;
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                                  Who lawes alle þat men may se,
                                
                                  A schrew or a fole hym semes to be.
                                
                                  ¶ Thre enmys in þys worlde þer are,
                                
                                  Þat coueyten alle men to for-fare,—
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                                  The deuel, þe flesshe, þe worlde also,
                                
                                  That wyrkyn mankynde ful mykyl wo:
                                
                                  Yf þou may strye þes þre enmys,
                                
                                  Þou may be secur of heuen blys.
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                                  ¶ Also, my chylde, a-gaynes þy lorde
                                
                                  Loke þou stryfe with no kyn worde,

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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 305
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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