Early English Meals and Manners

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Prof. Brewer has, I find, printed these _Statuta_ in his most interesting and valuable _Monumenta Franciscana_, 1858, p. 582-6. He differs from Mr Brock and me in reading _drunk...

Never mistrust or fail your friend. Don’t talk too much. Spare your master’s goods as your own. A lawless youth, a despised old age. A Gentleman says the best he can of every one.

[Sidenote: ... and the spoon handle by it.] [_“spoon handle” changed by editor from “steel spoon”_] [Footnote 15: ... p. *30] [_asterisked number in original_] [Footnote 27: ......

all printed, and waits only for the Introduction, that Prof. E. C. K. Gonner has kindly undertaken to write for the book. Canon Wordsworth of Marlborough has given the Society a...

44. _The Alliterative Romance of Joseph of Arimathie_, or _The Holy Grail_: from the Vernon MS.; with W. de Worde’s and Pynson’s Lives of Joseph: ed. Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. 5s....

¶ The xiiij: c{om}maunde ȝe þ{a}t youre dysshe be well{e} fyllyd and hepid, and namely of ent{er}mes, and of pitance w{i}t{h}-oute fat, carkyng that ȝe may p{ar}te coureteysly t...

XIII. _A Supplicacyon of the Beggers_, by Simon Fish, 1528-9 A.D., ed. F. J. Furnivall; with _A Supplication to our Moste Soueraigne Lorde; A Supplication of the Poore Commons_;...

¶ And shew them mery cher{e}, & serche and axe of them “how fare owr{e} meñ & tenaunt{is}, & how cornys dooñ, & cart{is}, and of owr{e} stor{e} how hit ys m{u}ltiplyed,” Axe suc...

75. _Catholicon Anglicum_, an early English Dictionary, from Lord Monson’s MS. A.D. 1483, ed., with Introduction & Notes, by S. J. Herrtage, B.A.; and with a Preface by H. B. Wh...

_Siege of Jerusalem_, edited by the late Prof. Dr. E. Kölbing and Prof. Dr. Kaluza; an Introduction and Glossary to the _Minor Poems of the Vernon MS._ by H. Hartley, M.A.; Alai...

Besides the Texts named as at press on p. 12 of the Cover of the Early English Text Society’s last Books, the following Texts are also slowly preparing for the Society:--

Fire shall burn in the Hall. [_corrected by editor from final comma; Corrigenda gives line reference as 393_] ll. 462-64 ... hete ... sett; ... let, [_Line-ending punctuation ch...

[Sidenote: Grace before meate.] [_This sidenote is in large type and was in the original book; the following “Grace before Meat” is in ordinary small type and was added by the e...

[Sidenote: ... to our live’s end.”] [_apostrophe unchanged_] l. 32 and kepe thy co{m}maundmentes; [_“co{m}maund/mentes” at line break without hyphen_] l. 55 It dulles the the wy...