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 ...

                                
                                  And where þou comyst, with gode chere
                                
                                  In halle or bowre, bydde "god be here!"
                                
                                  Loke þou cast to no mannes dogge,
                                
                                  With staff ne stone at hors ne hogge;
                                  Line 24 
                                
                                  Loke þat þou not scorne ne iape
                                
                                  Noþer with man, maydyn, ne ape;
                                
                                  Lete no man of þee make playnt;
                                
                                  Swere þou not by god noþer by saynt.
                                  Line 28 
                                
                                  Loke þou be curteys stondyng at mete;
                                
                                  And þat men ȝeuyth þee, þou take & ete;
                                
                                  And loke that þou nother crye ne crave,
                                
                                  And say "that and that wold y have;"
                                  Line 32 
                                
                                  But stond þou stylle be-fore þe borde,
                                
                                  And loke þou speke no lowde worde.
                                
                                  And, chyld, wyrshep thy fader and thy moder,
                                
                                  And loke þat þou greve noþer on ne oþer,
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                                  But euer among þou shalt knele adowne,
                                
                                  And aske here blessyng and here benesowne.
                                
                                  And, chyld, kepe thy cloþes fayre & clene,
                                
                                  And lete no fowle fylth on hem be sene.
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                                  Chyld, clem þou not ouer hows ne walle
                                
                                  For no frute [Cp. Lydgate's Tricks at School, Forewords, p. xliv.] , bryddes, ne balle;
                                
                                  And, chyld, cast no stonys ouer men hows,
                                
                                  Ne cast no stonys at no glas wyndowys;
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                                  Ne make no crying, yapis, ne playes,
                                
                                  In holy chyrche on holy dayes.
                                
                                  And, chyld, y warne þee of anoþer thynge,
                                
                                  Kepe þee fro many wordes and yangelyng.
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                                  And, chyld, whan þou gost to play,
                                
                                  Loke þou come home by lyght of day.
                                
                                  And, chyld, I warne the of a-noþer mater,
                                
                                  Loke þou kepe þee wel fro fyre and water;
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                                  And be ware and wyse how þat þou lokys
                                
                                  Ouer any brynk, welle, or brokys;

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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 400
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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