Early English Text Society
Though no excuse can be needed for including in our Extra Series a reprint of a unique Caxton on a most interesting subject, yet this Book of Curtesye from Hill's MS. was at first intended for our original series, I having forgotten lately that Caxton had written to 'lytyl Ioh...
Though no excuse can be needed for including in our Extra Series a reprint of a unique Caxton on a most interesting subject, yet this Book of Curtesye from Hill's MS. was at fir...
2. Chapter 2¶ Kepe you clene, & lose not yo_u_r gere; & or you passe owt of yo_u_r lodgyng, Eu_er_y garment _tha_t ye shall[e] were, 52 Awayte well[e] _tha_t yt be so syttyng & to yo_u_r de...
3. Chapter 3Lose not your gyrdel / sittyng at your mete [Sidenote: Don't undo your girdle at table;] For that is a tacche / of vncurtesye But yf ye seme / ye be embraced streite 199 [Sideno...
4. Chapter 4¶ O fader & fownder of ornate eloquence _tha_t Illumyned hast all[e] owre bretayne! To sone we loste thy lavreat science, 332 O lusty lyqvovre of _tha_t fulsu_m_ fontayn_e_! O c...
5. Chapter 5Braced so strayt / that he may not plye [Sidenote: being braced so tight that he can't bend.] But gaderith it / by maner of a wyndelas And he ought wrenche a syde / or a litil w...