Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
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Daughter, look that thou beware, whatsoever thee betide, Make not thy husband poor with spending or with pride. A man must spend as he may that hath but easy good,[106] For as a...
5. Part 5“See that your lord has a clean shirt and hose, a short coat,[141] a doublet, and a long coat, if he wear such, his hose well brushed, his socks at hand, his shoes or slippers a...
9. Part 9Thy prayer so commended to God, have a care To wash hands and face, and to combing thy hair. And then for the school bethink thou to go, The secrets of God the better to know. I...
3. Part 3LITTLE children, draw ye near And learn the courtesy written here; For clerks that well the Seven Arts know,[53] Say Courtesy came to earth below, When Gabriel hailed Our Lady b...
2. Part 2A singular fact to be noted in the English courtesy books is the almost complete absence of allusions to women. Barring the _Good Wife_ and _Wise Man_, which are distinctly midd...
7. Part 7Of the baker now speak I will, And what belongs his office till. Of a London bushel he shall bake Twenty loaves I undertake: Manchet[278] and cheat,[279] to make brown bread har...
10. Part 10MS. Lambeth 853, p. 102, about 1430, written without breaks. Other MSS. are Trinity College, Cambridge, R. 3, 19, and Ashmole 61, p. 7 (printed in _Queene Elizabethes Achademy_)...
8. Part 8S ay well some will by this my labour, E very man yet will not say the same. A mong the good I doubt not favour; G od them forgive [that] for it me blame. E ach man I wish [whom...
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6. Part 6If thou be a young infant And think the schools for to haunt, This lesson shall thy master thee mark— Cross-Christ[179] thee speed in all thy work. After[180] thy _Pater Noster_...
11. Part 11There is considerable difference between the editions of 1550 [?] and 1568, and that of 1577. H. Jackson, the printer, or some unknown editor either worked from a very imperfect...