De ciuilitate morun [sic] puerilium per Des. Erasmum Roterodamum, libellus nunc primum & conditus & æditus. Roberto VVhitintoni interprete. = A lytell booke of good maners for chyldren, nowe lately compyled and put forth by Erasmus Roterodam in latyne tonge, with interpretacion of the same in to the vulgare englysshe tonge, by Robert whytyngton laureate poete. Cum priuilegio

¶Of gamynge and pla••.

In gamynge and gentyll sporte let mery fasshyon be shewed / lette crafte / cause of stryfe and discey••e be set a parte / also lyes. For thrugh these prīciples a childe gro∣weth to further inconueny∣ence. He ouercometh better that s••ryueth nat / than he that hath the victorye. Ne∣uer repugne iugement. If thou playe with them that ••e ignorant•• / thou mayste alwaye wynne / but be con∣tent sometyme to lese tha•• the gamynge maye be more mery. If thou playe with mean••r persones / take nat vpon the to be better than they. A man shulde gamen for recreacion & nat bycause of lucte. They say that the inclynacion of a chylde can nat be better knowen than in gamynge. If any be dis∣posed of nature to deceytes / to lyes / to stryues / to vyo∣lence or presūpcion / here the vyce of nature woll apere. Therfore a manerly chyld••

shulde be lyke hym selfe / no lesse in gamynge than at th•• table.