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 ...

                                
                                  Þe boke hym calles a chorle of chere,
                                
                                  That vylany spekes be wemen sere:
                                
                                  For alle we ben of wymmen born,
                                
                                  And oure fadurs vs be-forne;
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                                  Þerfore hit is a vnhonest thyng
                                
                                  To speke of hem in any hethyng. [contempt, scorn. O.N. heðung, H. Coleridge.] 
                                
                                  ¶ Also a wyfe be, falle of ryȝt
                                
                                  To worschyp hyr husbonde bothe day and nyȝt,
                                  Line 268 
                                
                                  To his byddyng be obediente,
                                
                                  And hym to serue with-outen offence.
                                
                                  ¶ Yf two brether be at debate,
                                
                                  Loke noþer þou forþer in hor hate,
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                                  But helpe to staunche hom of malice;
                                
                                  Þen þou art frende to bothe I-wys.
                                
                                  ¶ Ȝif þou go with a-noþer at þo gate,
                                
                                  And ȝe be bothe of on astate,
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                                  Be curtasye and let hym haue þe way,
                                
                                  That is no vylanye, as men me say;
                                
                                  And he be comen of gret kynraden,
                                
                                  Go no be-fore þawgh þou be beden;
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                                  And yf þat he þy maystur be,
                                
                                  Go not be-fore, for curtasé,
                                
                                  Noþer in fylde, wode, noþer launde,
                                
                                  Ne euen hym with, but he commaunde.
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                                  ¶ Yf þou schalle on pilgrimage go,
                                
                                  Be not þe thryd felaw for wele ne wo;
                                
                                  Thre oxen in plowgh may neuer wel drawe,
                                
                                  Noþer be craft, ryȝt, ne lawe, [folio 17] 
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                                  ¶ Ȝif þou be profert to drynk of cup,
                                
                                  Drynke not al of, ne no way sup;
                                
                                  Drynk menskely and gyf agayne,
                                
                                  Þat is a curtasye, to speke in playne,
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                                  ¶ In bedde yf þou falle herberet to be,
                                
                                  With felawe, maystur, or her degré,

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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 307
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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