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 when þou stondyst at any schate [? meaning. Skathie, a fence. Jamieson. Skaith, hurt, harm. Halliwell.] , By ware and wyse þat þou cacche no stake, Line 56 For meny chyld with-out drede Ys dede or dysseyuyd throw ywell hede. [folio 175a] Chyld, kepe thy boke, cappe, and glouys, And al thyng þat þee behouys; Line 60 And but þou do, þou shat fare the wors, And þer-to be bete on þe bare ers. Chyld, be þou lyer noþer no theffe; Be þou no mecher [A mychare seems to denote properly a sneaking thief. Way. Prompt., p. 336. Mychare, a covetous, sordid fellow. Jamieson. Fr. pleure-pain: m. A niggardlie wretch; a puling micher or miser. Cotgrave.] for myscheffe. Line 64 Chyld, make þou no mowys ne knakkes Be-fore no men, ne by-hynd here bakkes, But be of fayre semelaunt and contenaunce, For by fayre manerys men may þee a-vaunce. Line 68 Chyld whan þou gost yn eny strete, Iff þou eny gode man or woman mete, Avale thy hode to hym or to here, And bydde, "god spede dame or sere!" Line 72 And be they smalle or grete, This lesson þat þou not for-gete,— For hyt is semely to euery mannys chylde,— And namely to clerkes to be meke & mylde. Line 76 And, chyld, ryse by tyme and go to scole, And fare not as Wanton fole, And lerne as fast as þou may and can, For owre byschop is an old man, Line 80 And þer-for þou most lerne fast Iff þou wolt be bysshop when he is past. Chyld, y bydde þe on my blessyng That þou for-ȝete nat þis for no thyng, Line 84 But þou loke, hold hyt wel on þy mynde,
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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 ...
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Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1868.
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Home economics -- England.
Education -- England.
Etiquette, Medieval
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England -- Social life and customs

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