Chapter XXX: Prologue: 1 1 (13)

[Sidenote: Children’s quarrels are first play, then crying; don’t
believe their complaints; give ’em the rod. Spare that, and you’ll
spoil all.]

[Sidenote: [Page 155.]]

++A! litil balade, voide of eloquence, 92
I p{ra}ie ȝ{o}u ȝonge children þ{a}t þis schal se & rede,
Þouȝ ȝe be copious of sentence,
Ȝit to þese clausis for to take hede
Which al i{n}to v{er}tues schal ȝo{ur}e ȝouþe lede. 96
In þis writynge, þouȝ þer be no date,
Yf ouȝt be mys i{n} word, sillable, or dede,
I submitte me to correcciou{n} w{i}t{h}oute ony debate.

[Sidenote: Young children, pray take heed to my little ballad,
which shall lead you into all virtues. My mistakes I submit to
correction.]

+Thus eendith þe book of curteisie þ{a}t is clepid
stans puer ad mensam.+

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Stans Puer ad Mensam

[Combined texts omitting all notes: see Transcriber’s Note at
beginning of selection. Lines are numbered by multiples of 7.]

¶ [My dere childe, first thiself enable
With all thin herte to vertuous disciplyne
Afor thi soverayne standing at the table,
Dispose thi youth aftir my doctryne
To all norture thi corage to enclyne.
First when thu spekist be not rekles,
Kepe feete and fingeris and handes still in pese.] 7

++Mi dere sone, first þi silf able
w{i}t{h} al þin herte to vertuose discipline,--
A-fore þi souereyn stondinge at þe table
Dispose þou þ{e}e aftir my doctryne--
To al nortur þi corage to encline.
First while þou spekist, be not richelees;
Kepe boþe fyngir and hond stille in pees; 7

++Be symple of chiere, cast nat thyn ye aside,
Agenst the post lete nat thy bak abyde;
Gaase nat aboute, to{ur}nyng ou{er}all{e};
Make nat thy myrro{ur} also of the wall{e},
Pyke nat thy nose, and in especiall{e}
Be right wele ware, and sette hieron thi thought,
By-fore thy sou{er}ayne cracche ne rubbe nought. 14

++Be symple in cheer; caste not þi looke a-side,
gase not about, t{ur}nynge þi siȝt ou{er}al.
aȝen þe post lete not þi bak abide,
neiþ{er} make þi myrro{ur} also of þe wal.
Pike not pi nose; & moost in especial
be weel waar, sette her-on þi þouȝt,
to-fore þi sou{er}eyn cratche ne picke þ{e}e nouȝt. 14

¶ Who spekith{e} to the in any man{er} place,
Rudely cast nat thyn ye adowne,
But with a sadde chiere loke hym in the face;
Walke demurely by strete in the towne,
Advertise the with{e} wisdom and Reasoun{e}.
With{e} dissolute laughters do thow non offence
To-fore thy sou{er}ayn, whiles he is in presence. 21

¶ Who-so speke to þ{e}e in ony man{er} place,
lu{m}pischli caste not þin heed a-dou{n},
but w{i}t{h} a sad cheer loke him in þe face.
walke demurely bi streetis in þe tou{n},
And take good hede bi wisdom & resou{n}
þat bi no wantowne lauȝinge þ{o}u do noo{n} offence
To-fore þi sou{er}eyne while he is i{n} p{re}sence. 21

¶ Pare clene thy nailes, thyn handes wassh{e} also
To-fore mete, and whan thow dooest arise;
Sitte in that place thow art assigned to;
Prease nat to hye in no man{er} wise;
And til thow se afore the thy service,
Be nat to hasty on brede for to byte,
Of gredynesse lest men wolde the endwyte. 28

++Pare clene þi nailis; þi{n} hondis waische also
to-fore þi mete, [&] wha{n}ne þou doist arise.
sitte þ{o}u in þ{a}t place þ{a}t þ{o}u art a-signed to;
Prece not to hie in no maner wise;
And wha{n}ne þou seest afore þ{e}e þi seruice,
be not to hasti upon breed to bite
lest men þ{er}of Do þee edwite. 28

¶ Grennyng and mowes at the table eschowe;
Cry nat to lowde; kepe honestly silence;
To enboce thy Iowis with{e} mete is nat diewe;
With{e} ful mowth{e} speke nat, lest thow do offence;
Drynk nat bretheles for hast ne necligence;
Kepe clene thy lippes from fat of flessh{e} or fissh{e};
Wype clene thi spone, leve it nat in thy dissh{e}. 35

++Gre{n}nynge & mowy{n}ge at þi table eschewe;
Crie not to lowde: honestli kepe silence.
To enbrace þi iowis w{i}t{h} breed, it is not dewe;
w{i}t{h} ful mouþ speke not lest þ{o}u do offence;
Drinke not bridelid for haste ne necligence;
Kepe clene þi lippis from fleisch & fische;
Wipe faire þi spoon; leue it not i{n} þi dische. 35

¶ Of brede I-byten no soppis that thow make;
In ale nor wyne with{e} hande leve no fattenes;
With{e} mowth{e} enbrewed thy cuppe thow nat take;
Enbrewe no napery for no rekelesnes;
For to souppe [loude] is agenst gentiles;
[N]eu{er} at mete begynne thow nat stryf;
Thi teth{e} also thow pike nat with{e} no knyf. 42

++Of breed w{i}t{h} þi teeþ no soppis þou make;
Lowde for to soupe is aȝen gentilnes:
W{i}t{h} mouþ enbrowide þi cuppe þ{o}u not take,
In ale ne i{n} wiyn w{i}t{h} hond leue no fatnes;
Defoule not þe naprie bi no richelesnes.
Be waar þ{a}t at þe mete þ{o}u bigy{n}ne no striif;
Þi teeþ also at þe table picke w{i}t{h} no knyf. 42

¶ Of honest myrth{e} late be thy daliaunce;
Swere none othes, speke no ribawdrye;
The best morsel, have in remembraunce,
Hole to thyself alwey do nat applie;
Part with{e} thy felaw, for that is curtesie:
Laade nat thy trencho{ur} with{e} many remyssailes;
And from blaknes alwey kepe thy nayles. 49

++Of honest mirþe eu{er}e be þi daliaunce;
Swere noo{n} ooþis; speke no ribaudie.
Þe beste morsels,--haue þis i{n} reme{m}brau{n}ce,--
Holli alwey þi silf to take do not applie.
P{ar}te w{i}t{h} þi felawis, for þat is curteisie.
Lete not þi trencho{ur} be w{i}t{h} many morsels;
And fro blaknes kepe weel þi nailis. 49

¶ Of curtesye also agenst the lawe,
With{e} sowne dishonest for to do offence;
Of old surfaytes abrayde nat thy felawe;
Toward thy sou{er}ayne alwey thyn aduertence;
Play with{e} no knyf, take heede to my sentence;
At mete and soupp{er} kepe the stille and soft;
Eke to and fro meve nat thy foote to oft. 56

++Of curtesie it is aȝen þe lawe,
W{i}t{h} dishoneste, sone, for to do difence;
Of oolde forfetis vpbraide not þi felawe;
Towarde þi sou{er}eyn do eu{er}e reu{er}ence.
Pleie w{i}t{h} no knif, take hede to my sentence;
At mete & at sop{er} kepe þee stille & softe,
And eek to & fro meeue not þi feeþ to ofte. 56

¶ Droppe nat thi brest with{e} sawce ne with{e} potage;
Brynge no knyves vnskoured to the table;
Fil nat thy spone, lest in the cariage
It went beside, whiche were nat comendable;
Be quyke and redy, meke and s{er}uisable,
Wele awaityng to fulfille anone
What that thy sou{er}ayn{e} comav[{n}]dith{e} the to be done. 63

++Droppe n{o}t þi brest w{i}t{h} seew & oþ{er} potage,
Bri{n}ge no foule knyues vnto þe table;
Fille not þi spoon lest i{n} þe cariage
It scheede bi side, it were not co{m}mendable.
Be quik & redi, meke & seruiable,
Weel awaiti{n}ge to fulfille anoo{n}
What þ{a}t þi sou{er}eyn co{m}maundiþ to be doon. 63

¶ And whereso eu{er} that thow dyne or soupe,
Of gentilesse take salt with{e} thy knyf;
And be wele ware thow blow nat in the cuppe.
Reu{er}ence thy felawe, gynne with{e} hym no stryf;
Be thy power{e} kepe pees al thy lyf.
Interrupt nat, where so thow wende,
None other mans tale, til he have made an ende; 70

++And whe{re}-so-eu{er}e þ{o}u be to digne or to suppe,
Of gentilnes take salt w{i}t{h} þi knyf,
{and} be weel waar þ{o}u blowe n{o}t i{n} þe cuppe.
Reu{er}ence þi felawis; bigy{n}ne w{i}t{h} he{m} no strijf;
To þi power kepe pees al þi lijf.
Intrippe no ma{n} whe{re} so þat þou wende,
No man in his tale, til he haue maade an eende. 70

¶ With{e} thy fyngres make thow nat thy tale;
Be wele avised, namly in tendre age,
To drynk by mesure both{e} wyne and ale;
Be nat copious also of langage;
As tyme requyrith{e}, shewe out thy visage,
To gladde ne to sory, but kepe atwene tweyne,
For losse or lucre or any case sodayne. 77

¶ W{i}t{h} þi fyngris marke n{o}t þi tale;
be weel avysid, & nameli in tendir age,
To dri{n}ke mesurabli boþe wiyn & ale.
Be n{o}t to copiose of langage;
As tyme req{ui}riþ schewe out þi visage,
To glad, ne to sory, b{u}t kepe þ{e}e euene bitwene
For los, or lucre, or ony case sodene. 77

¶ Be meke in mesure, nat hasti, but tretable;
Ou{er} moche is nat worth{e} in no man{er} thyng;
To children it longith{e} nat to be [vengeable,]
Sone meeved and sone forgyvyng;
And as it is remembrid bi writyng,
Wrath{e} of children is sone ou{er}gone,
With{e} an apple the p{ar}ties be made atone. 84

++Be soft i{n} mesure, not hasti, but treteable;
Ouer soft is nouȝt in no maner þing
To childre{n} longiþ not to be ve{n}geable,
Soone meued and soone fiȝtinge;
And as it is reme{m}brid bi writynge,
wraþþe of childre{n} is ou{er}come soone,
W{i}t{h} þe p{ar}tis of an appil be{n} made at oon. 84

¶ In children werre now myrth{e} and now debate,
In theyr quarel no grete violence;
Now pley, now wepyng, sielde in one estate;
To theyr playntes gyve no credence;
A Rodde refo{ur}myth{e} al theyr insolence;
In theyr corage no Ranco{ur} doth{e} abyde;
Who sparith{e} the yerd, al vertu set aside. 91

++In childre{n} werre is now mirþe & now debate,
In her quarel is no violence,
now pleie, now wepi{n}ge, & seelde i{n} oon state;
to her pleyntis ȝeue no credence;
A rodde reformeþ al her necligence;
in her corage no ranco{ur} dooþ abide,
who þ{a}t spariþ þe rodde all u{er}tues settiþ a-side. 91

LENVOYE.

¶ Go, litel bille, bareyn of eloquence,
Pray yonge children that the shal see or Reede,
Though{e} thow be compendious of sentence,
Of thi clauses for to taken heede,
Whiche to al vertu shal theyr yowth{e} leede.
Of the writyng, though{e} ther be no date,
If ought be mysse,--worde, sillable, or dede,--
Put al the defaute vpon Iohn{e} Lydegate. 99

++A! litil balade, voide of eloquence,
I p{ra}ie ȝ{o}u ȝonge children þ{a}t þis schal se & rede,
Þouȝ ȝe be copious of sentence,
Ȝit to þese clausis for to take hede
Which al i{n}to v{er}tues schal ȝo{ur}e ȝouþe lede.
In þis writynge, þouȝ þer be no date,
Yf ouȝt be mys i{n} word, sillable, or dede,
I submitte me to correcciou{n} w{i}t{h}oute ony debate. 99

+Thus eendith þe book of curteisie þ{a}t is clepid
stans puer ad mensam.+

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Errata (noted by transcriber):

The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, collations:
l. 59: [[CU _for_ first ne _read_ ner]]
[_text reads “fist” for “first”_]

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The Notes to the Book of Curtasye originally appeared in this location, immediately before the Index. They have been moved to accompany the primary text.

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[Transcriber’s Note:

The Table of Contents is repeated here in slightly abbreviated form for convenience in using the Index. All verse selections have continuous line numbers; the exact page number is not needed. References in the form “line B” are to the “ABC“ selections, “Aristotle” and “Lerne or Be Lewde”. Items marked [[added by editor]] are from the “Additions to Index” at the end of this selection.

Incorrect page numbers are shown in [[double brackets]] at the end of the line, typically in the form [[258 for 261]].

The paragraph beginning “To save the repetition...“ is from the original text.]

Forewords, or General Preface i
Education in Early England iv
Cleanliness, or Dirt, of Men, Houses, &c. lxiii
Notice of the separate Poems lxviii
Preface to Russell’s Boke of Nurture lxix
Collations and Corrections xcii
John Russell’s Boke of Nurture 1
Notes thereon 84
Lawrens Andrewe on Fish 113
Wilyam Bulleyn on Boxyng and Neckeweede 124
Andrew Borde on Sleep, Rising, and Dress 128
William Vaughan’s Fifteen Directions to preserve Health 133
The Dyet for every Day (Sir John Harington’s) 138
On Rising, Diet, and Going to Bed (from the same) 140
Recipes (for Fritters, Jussell, and Mawmeny) 145
Recipes (for Hares and Conies in Civeye, and for Doucettes) 146
Wynkyn de Worde’s Boke of Keruynge 147
Notes thereon 173
The Boke Of Curtasye 175
The Booke Of Demeanor 207
Bp. Grossetest’s Household Statutes 215
Stanzas and Couplets of Counsel 219
The Schoole Of Vertue 221
Whate-ever thow sey, avyse thee welle! 244
A Dogg Lardyner, & a Sowe Gardyner 246
Maxims in -ly 247
Roger Ascham’s Advice to Lord Warwick’s Servant 248
The Babees Book 250
Lerne or be Lewde 258
The A B C of Aristotle 260
Vrbanitatis 262
The Boris Hede furst 264*
The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, or Edyllys be
(left-hand pages) 265-273
The Young Children’s Book (right-hand pages) 266-274
Stans Puer ad Mensam (left-hand pages) 275-281
Stans Puer ad Mensam (right-hand pages) 276-282
Notes to the Boke of Curtasye, &c. 283

_Items from the Postscript are not included in the Index_

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INDEX.

To save the repetition of _p._ and _l._ for _page_ and _line_, I have adopted Mr Morris’s plan, in his Chaucer Glossary, of putting a / between the numbers of the page and line, so that 5 / 115 stands for page 5, line 115. Where no line is named, then _p._ for _page_ is prefixed. The French references are to Cotgrave, except where otherwise specified. The Index, though long, does not pretend to completeness. The explanations of words given in the notes to the text are not repeated here.

Abbots of Westminster & Tintern not to sit together, 76/1141-4.

Abbot with a mitre, 70/1013, 72/1051;
without one, l. 1015; 72/1059.

A B C of Aristotle, p. 260, p. 258. [[258 for 261]]

A bofe, 216/9, above.

Abrayde, 277/52, upbraid.

Abremon, a fish, p. 113.

A-brode, 62/906, spread open.

Abstinence, 8/108; 153/6.

Abylle, 267/44, fit, convenient, beseeming; L. _habilis_,
suitable, fit.

Accounts, yearly, taken to the Auditor, 196/590.

Achatis, 201/555, purchases. Fr. _achet_, a bargaine, or
purchase. Cotgrave.

Addes, 153/11, adze.

Aduertence, p. 277, attention, respect, reverence.

Affeccion, 52/763, disposition.

After-dinner nap, 65/947-54,
to be taken standing against a cupboard, p. 128.

Ages of man, the four, p. 53, p. 104.

Ahuna, a monster of the sea, p. 114.

Alay, 16/232, temper.

Alaye, p. 151, carve.

Aldermen, the old, rank above the young, 77/1157.

Ale; is to be 5 days old, 12/178; p. 92; 154/19.
Fr. _Gutale_ ou _Guttale_. Ale, good Ale. Cot.

Ale or wine, the sauce for capons, 26/411.

Algate, 26/400, always.

Aliene, 75/1109, foreigners.

Alle, p. 216, No. ix. hall.

Allhallows Day, fires in hall begin on, 189/393.

Allhallowsday, 205/837.

Alloft, 69/996, above, over the vessel of herbs.

Almandes, 5/74, almonds.

Almond, 44/625, a whelk’s operculum.

Almonds, good against sour food, 8/102;
eat it with raw fruit, 153/1.

Almond, iardyne, cream of, 52/744;
cream and milk of, 35/520;
cream of, 49/705; 56/825; 157/8; p. 167, last line.

Almoner, his duties, 201/729;
to remove a towel, 204/814.

Alms to be given to the poor, p. 216, No. viii.

Alms-dish, 23/346; 200/687; 201/730;
loaf for, 202/731;
it has the leavings in the lord’s cup, 203/787,
and a piece of everything he is served with, 204/799.
See John Fitz Roberts’s account for altering and ornamenting an
almsdish for Hen. VI., that belonged to the _Duk d’Excestre_,
in Rymer X. 388, col. 1.

Aloes epatick, 135/12;
Fr. _hepatique_, Liuer-helping; comforting a whole,
or curing a diseased, liuer. Cot.

Als, 197/599, also.

Altar, minister at the high, with both hands, 182/167.

Alycaunt, p. 86, p. 89, a wine.

Amber, 141/3; _adj._ 49/699.

Amberdegrece, 132/9, a scent.

Angel and 3 Shepherds, device of, 49/702.

Anger, avoid, 236/764.

Anhonest, 180/96, unmannerly, improper; 180/124, unpolite.

Annaunciande, 201/705, announcing, who announces guests?

Answer sensibly, 252/71.

Answer, servants mustn’t, 215/13.

Ape tied with a clog, 180/108.

Apparel, rules for, 214/159, &c.

Apple fritter, 33/502, &c.

Apple, a raw, cures indigestion, 153/5;
and the fumes of drink, 8/105.

Apples, 52/757; 55/813; 152/19.
“The dyvell choke hym, he hath eaten all the _appels_ alone.”
Palsgrave, p. 484, col. 2.

Apples and pears roasted, 164/17, &c.

[[Citation could not be identified. Roast apples and pears are
mentioned together at 152/26 and 6/80.]]

Apprentise of lawe, rank of, 73/1070.

Apprentices, thievish, hanging good for, p. 125.

Apys mow, 179/59; apes grimace.

_Aquarius_, p. 199, the Ewerer or Water-bearer.

Aquetons, 197/597, acquittance.

Ar, 201/710, before.

Archbishop, 72/1047.

Archbishop ranks with a prince, 70/1010;
is to dine alone, 171/4.

Archdeacon, rank of, 70/1016; 72/1060.

Areche, 19/290, retch?

Areise, 43/609, tear off?

Arere, 26/407, cut.

Areyse, 27/418, 425; 28/429, &c.; tear or cut off.

_A B C_, p. 260, p. 258.

Arm, don’t claw it, 193/329.

Armes, servauntes of, 156/28, ? in livery, or men-at-arms.

Artificers, rich; rank of, 71/1037.

Asche, 45/643, ask.

Ashore, 5/71, slantwise, aslope; 20/299, astraddle.

Asise, 60/879, way, manner.

Aslout, 39/560; aslant.

Aspidochelon, a great whale-fisshe, p. 114.

Assaying bread, by the panter, 200/691;
water, 201/702;
meat, by the sewer, 202/764.
_See_ Credence, and Tasting.

Asseles, 196/566, sets the lord’s seal to.

Astate, 185/276; rank.

At, 256/182, with; 184/242, that.

Aþer, 200/689, either, each.

Attend at school, 209/21.

Attirling, 287/41, shrew; A.S. _Attor_, _Ater_, poison.

Atwytynge, 18/274, twitting, blaming others.

Audibly, speak, 235/687.

Auditor, the lord’s, all officers to account to, once a year,
196/587-94.

Aunterose, p. 260, l. A, venturesome.

Aurata (a fish), p. 114.

Autumn, the device of, 53/766; p. 54.

Ave, 48/692.

Ave-Maria, 181/147.

Aveyner, his duties, p. 197.

Avise, 35/525, opinion, learning.

Awoydes, 204/821, removes, puts off.

Ayselle, 42/596, a kind of vinegar.

Baase (the fish), 58/842. _See_ Base.

Babulle, 1/12.
Au fol la marotte. Prov. We say also, Giue the foole his _bable_;
or what’s a foole without a _bable_? Cotgrave, under _fol._

Back; turn it on no one, 253/90;
not on him you give a cup to, 180/121.

Backbite no man, 272/99.

Bacon and peas, 54/797.

Bailiffs of a city, rank of, 71/1033.

Bailiffs of farms, &c., to be talked to pleasantly, p. 218, No. xvi.

Baked herrings with sugar, 166/7.

Bakemete, 54/802, meat-pie.

Bake metes, 30/476-7, game pies, &c.; ? sweet pies, 54/809;
how to carve, 159/19;
how assayed, 203/771-6.

Baker, gets money from the treasurer, 196/582;
his duties, 198/623-28.

Bakes, 179/60, as _bokes_, bulges, stuffs.

Balena, a whale or mermaid, pp. 115, 123, 119, last line.

Banker, 63/924, cloth to cover a bench.

Barbe, p. 151, cut up.

Barme, 61/891, bosom.

Barnard’s blowe, p. 126, a secret blow by a highwayman.

Baron, 70/1013, 72/1051;
of the Exchequer, 70/1014; 72/1061.

Baron of the Exchequer, appeal lies to, from an Auditor, 196/594.

Base, the fish, 51/735; 166/13; 167/6.

Bason, 63/926, washing basin.

Basshe, 45/645, be abashed, ashamed.

Bastard, 9/119; 89/7; 153/20; a sweet wine.

Bate, 182/188, quarrelling.

Bath, how to make one, p. 66-7; a medicated one, p. 67-9.

Bayle, 196/576, bailiff.

Bearer of meat to stand or kneel as the sewer does, 203/777.

Beastlynes, 232/460;
nasty practise, t.i., gnawing bones.

Beaver, considered as a fish, 37/547.

“The beuer, whose hinder feet and taile onlie are supposed to be
fish. Certes the taile of this beast is like vnto a thin
whetstone, as the bodie vnto a monsterous rat.... It is also
reported that their said tailes are a delicate fish.”
Harrison, _Desc. Brit._, i. 225, col. 2.

See Giraldus Cambrensis, _Works_, vol. v. p. 59, ed. 1867.

Beckoning, don’t use it, 184/249.

Bed, how to undress a lord for, p. 65-6.

Bed and Bedroom, how to air and prepare, 63/919-30.

Bed, offer your bed-fellow his choice of place in, 185/293.

Bed, prayer on going to, 240/987-8.

Bedchamber, how to prepare your master’s, pp. 63, 65.

Bedchamber door, lights stuck on, 193/509.

Bedes, for church service, 63/918.

Bedrooms, don’t sleep in ratty ones, or those deprived of sun, p. 132.

Beds of straw, &c., to be 9 ft. long and 7 ft. broad, 191/436-7.

Beef, 34/517; 48/688; p. 105;
powdered, p. 102, note to l. 694;
stewed, 54/798;
how to carve, 25/393.

“Touchyng the _befe_: I do estymate him of nature melancolyke, and
engendre and produce grosse blode well norisshyng folkes robustes
and of stronge complexion, whiche occupy them in great busynesse
and payne.” --_Du Guez’s Introductorie_, p. 1071.

Behight, 41/605, direct.

Behoveable, 54/804, necessary.

Belch not, 178/113.

Believe fair words, don’t, 183/205.

Bengwine, p. 134;
Fr. _Benjoin_, the aromaticall gumme called Benjamin or Benzoin.
Cot.

Benym, 24/368, deprive.

Be-sene, 21/318, become, suit.

Bete, 63/930, feed, nourish.

Bete, 67/990, remedy, cure.

Betowre, 37/541, the bittern, q.v.; 49/696;
how to carve, 27/421; p. 162.

Better, give place to your, 253/89.

Bilgres, 69/994;
bugloss? p. 110.

Birds, how to carve, pp. 25-8, 30-1, 161-62.

Birth to be looked to first, 74/1105.

Bishop, rank of, 70/1012.

Bisketes, 231/389, biscuits.

Bite not thy bread, 178/49.

Bithe, 47/678, are.

Biting your lips is bad, 178/89.

Bittern, to unjoint or carve, p. 162; 165/1.
_See_ Betowre.

Blaknes, 278, 277/49, black dirt.

Blamanger and Blanchmanger, p. 101, bottom.
_See_ Blanger mangere and Blaunche manger.

Blandrelles, 157/10, white apples.
_See_ Blaundrelles.

Blanger mangere, 49/693.

Blanked, 169/23.
_See_ Blanket.

Blanket, 64/935. Fr. _blanchet._ A blanket for a bed; also, white
woollen cloth. Cot. Is to be kept in the privy.

Blasting, 20/304; cp. Fr. _Petarrade_: f. Gunshot of farting.
Cotgrave.

Blaunche manger, 157/3.

Blaunche powder, 6/80, note; p. 85, p. 10, note 3; 152/26.

Blaunderelle, 50/714;
Blawnderelles, 6/79; p. 85, white apples.

Blaynshe powder, p. 10, note 3.

Blow and puff not, 20/303.

Blow not like a broken-winded horse, 210/53.

Blow, don’t, on your food to cool it, 180/111.

Blood Royal, Babees of, _The Babees Book_, addressed to, 250/15.

Blood Royal ranks above property, 74/1094; 171/16.

Blush or change colour, don’t, 187/337.

Blysse, 266/12, 23, make the sign of the cross on or over.

Blythe, 178/47, joy? = (in) faith.

Boar pasty, 31/489.

Boar, 48/686.

Boards of the privy to be covered with green cloth, 63/932.

Body to be kept upright, 235/676.

Bof, 202/750, ? not “_boeuf_, an ox, a beefe,” Cot.;
but _a-bof_ (dishes), above, up.

Boke, the, 185/261.

Bold, don’t be too, p. 258, p. 260, l. B.

Bolde, 192/454, finely?

Bole Armoniake, p. 134.
Fr. _Armoniac_, a gumme spring from the Cyrenian _Ferula_ or
_Fennell-giant_.

Bolkynge, 19/298, belching.
A.S. _bealcian_, to belch; to bolke, belche, _roucter_.
Palsgrave.

Bombace, p. 139, cotton; cp. bombast.

Boner, 183/191. Fr. _bonaire_, gentle, courteous, affable. Cot.

Bones not to be thrown on the floor, 269/79;
to be put into voyders, 230/358.

Bonet, 169/29, nightcap.

Book, stick to it well, 227/168.

Boorde, p. 260, l. B, joke, play. “To _bourde_ or iape with one in
sporte, _truffler_, _border_, _iouncher_.” Palsgrave.

Boorde, bourde, p. 258, p. 260, l. B;
Fr. _bourder_, to toy, trifle, dally; bourd or ieast with. Cot.

Borbotha, a slippery fish, p. 115.

Borclothe, 30/468, table-cloth.

Bordclothe, 4/62, table-cloth.
“The table clothes and towelles shoulde be chaunged twyes every
weeke at the leste; more if neede require.” H. Ord. p. 85.

Borde, 178/31, table.

Borde, Andrew, extracts from, pp. 89, 91, &c.;
on _Sleep, Rising, and Dress_, p. 128-32.

Border, p. 151, carve.

Botery, 12/176-7.

Botre, 193/489, buttery.

Bouȝt, 13/188, 189 _n_, 191, fold; 268/27, 29; 269/17;
‘_Mal feru_, A malander in the _bought_ of a horse’s knee.’ Cot.

Bow when you answer, 253/83.

Boxyng, p. 124, smacking the face.

Boys to walk two and two from school, not hooping and hallooing,
228/238-264.

Boystous, 257/195, rude; Boystows, _rudis_. Prompt.

Boystousnesse, 256/182; _Ruditas._ Prompt.

Brade, 199/666, broad.

Bragot, 55/817; p. 107.

Brandrels, 152/24, blaundrels, white apples.

Brawn of boar, 48/686; 54/796.

Brawn of boar: this was the first dish at dinner in Harrison’s time,
1577-87;
see his _Description_ of Britain, bk. iii, ch. 1 (N. Sh. Soc.).
[[entry added by editor]]

Brawn of a capon, 163/27.

Brawn, how to carve, 24/378;
pp. 94, 156.

Brayd, at a, 15/226, sharply, quickly.

Brayde, 13/188, instant, same time.

Brayde, 11/146, start, slip.

Brayde, at a, 200/678, quickly.

Bread to be cut, not broken, 255/141; 267/24;
at dinner to be cut in two, 178/35.

Bread, how to chop, p. 4;
how assayed, 200/691-2.

Bread and cheese, 55/815.

Break your bread, 178/51.

Break not wind, 20/304.

Bream, 51/736; 58/841;
pp. 108, 115.

Bream, sea-, 40/578; 49/698; 52/746; 58/848.

Breath, as it may smell, keep your mouth shut, 211/69.

Breche (? drawers), clean, 60/871.

Brede, 13/192, breadth.

Breke, 21/315; p. 151, carve venison.

Breke a cony, 29/448.

Bresewort, 68/993.
“In the curious treatise of the virtues of herbs, Royal MS. 18
A. vi., fol. 72 b, is mentioned ‘_bryse-wort_, or bon-wort, or
daysye, _consolida minor_, good to breke bocches.’” Way,
Promptorium, p. 52, note 1.

Brest, 19/288, ? for fist.

Bret, Brett, a fish, 41/583; 51/735; 59/852.
Fr. _Limaude_, f. A Burt or _Bret_-fish. Cot.

Breue, 190/413, book, score-up.

Breuet, 194/536, briefed (with green wax).

Breve, 195/553, set down in writing, keep accounts of.

Brewe, 36/540, a bird; 49/706; 157/8;
how to carve, 27/422;
to untache or carve, p. 160.

Bridelid, 278/33, ? a wrong reading; or, with food in one’s mouth;
Fr. _boire sa bride_, A horse to draw vp his bit into his mouth
with his tongue. Cot.

Broach a pipe of wine, how to, 5/69, p. 152, 121/69.
[[last selection unidentified]]

Broche?, 161/6.

Broiled herrings, 52/748.

Broke-lempk, 69/994; p. 68, note.

Broken, 214/158, with hernia?, E. Engl. _bursten_.

Broken meat or food for the poor, 202/739.

Brothellis, 267/38, low rude people.
Fr. _bordeau_, a brothell or bawdie house; _bordelier_, a wencher,
haunter of baudie-houses. Cotgrave. Adulterous friars are called
_brothels_ in Piers Plowman’s Crede, l. 1540, v. 2, p. 496, ed.
Wright. See Arth. and Merlin, &c., in Halliwell;--a blackguard,
Towneley Mysteries, p. 142, “stynt, _brodels_, youre dyn.”

Browers, 199/663; _brower_ must be a napkin or doyley.
“Can it be a bib put on when taking _broo_ or broth in, against the
spilling of what is supped up? (Or rather, wiping the fingers from
the _broo_, sauce, or gravy, that men dipped their bits of meat
into.) Halliwell curiously explains _broo_, top of anything.
‘Tak a knyf & shere it smal, the rute and alle, & sethe it in
water; take the _broo_ of that, and late it go thorow a clowte’--
evidently the juice. Ital. _broda_, broth, swill for swine, dirt
or mire; _brodare_, to cast broth upon.” --H. Wedgwood.

Browes, p. 160, last line; p. 173. A.S. _briw_, es.; m.
Brewis, the small pieces of meat in broth; pottage, frumenty, &c.,
_briwan_, to brew. Somner.

Brows, how to use the, 210/29; 213/132.

Browynge, 179/75, broth, grease.
_See_ Browes.

Brush your master well, 62/913;
all robes lightly, 64/940-3;
your cap, 228/78.

Brushed (well), breeches, 60/873.

Brydelynge, 19/288, ? the passage seems corrupt.

Brytte, a fish, 166/12.

Buche, 31/492, in squares. Sloane MS. 1315, reads “Custarde, enche
square checke hit with your knyfe.”

Buffe, p. 133, leather made of buck’s skin.

Bulch not, 294/113. [[294 for 212]]

Bulk, 267/47. A.S. _bealcian_, to belch.
“Bolkyn, _ructo_, eructo, orexo.” Prompt.

Bulke, 29/452, thorax, breast; 159/16.

BULLEYN, Wilyam; on Boxyng and Neckeweede, p. 124-7.

Bultelle clothe, 12/164.

Bun, 14/211; 15/218.

Bushel of flour to make 20 loaves, 198/625-6.

Business, attend to your own, 268/56.

Bustard, 28/433; 37/541; p. 97; 49/695; p. 102; 157/4.

Butler and Panter’s duties, p. 152-1. [[152-1 for 152/1]]

Butler, his duties, 196/423-30;
is the panter’s mate, /425.

Butt or fresh-water flounder, p. 115.

Butter, sweet, of Claynos or hakeney, 39/559.

Butter, one of the _fruits_ to be eaten before dinner, 46/667-8.

Butter and fruits to be eaten before dinner, 152/22.

Butter, wholesome first and last, 7/89; 152/31.

Butter, 7/89-92; p. 85; 152/20, 22.

Buttiler, p. 3, l. 40-1.
‘Butler, the officer in charge of the _buttery_ or collection of
casks; as Pantler, the officer in charge of the pantry.’ Wedgwood.

Buying, swear & lie not in, 270/76.

Bydene, 4/62, properly.

Cabages, 35/521; p. 97; 159/29.

Calf, boiled, on Easter-day, p. 160.

Calves-foot jelly, 34/515.

Calves-skin garments to be worn in summer, p. 139.

Camamelle, 68/992, chamomile.

Camelyne sauce, p. 36, note 6.

Camphire, 135/13.

Campolet wine, 153/20, p. 174.

Cancer, the creuyce or cray-fish, p. 115.

_Candelarius_, 204/822-3, the chandler.

Candle, one to each mess at dinner, 205/837.

Candlemas-eve, squires’ allowances stop on, 189/394; 205/837.

“_Aujourd’huy Febvrier demain Chandelier._ Prov. (For Candlemas
day is euer the second of Februarie.)” Cot.

Candles, 34/510.

Canel, 5/66; p. 84, a spout.

Canelle, 11/142; 10/135; 153/24, 31; a spice.

Canelle-boon, 29/449; 159/14.
Fr. _Clavicules_, f. The kannell bones, channell bones, necke-bones,
craw-bones, extending (on each side ore) from the bottom of the
throat vnto the top of the shoulder. Cot. The merry-thought of a
bird. The haunch-bones below correspond to the clavicles or
kannell bones above.

Canne, 266/4;
cunne, 265/3, know.

Cannelles, 152/15, channels, spouts.

Canterbury, Bp. of, 73/1077.
_See_ Archbishop.

Canterbury, the prior of, 77/1145.

Cap, take it off before a lord, 262/4;
before your better, 274/137;
when speaking to any man, 226/80;
be free of, 229/274, salute every one.

Capitaius, a fish, p. 116.

Capon, 48/689; 54/801; p. 106.

“Of all meates the best and most utille to the body of man is of
capons, chyckyns, faisantes, partriches, yonge partriches,
_plouuiers_, _pigeons_, quailles, snites (_becasses_§),
wod-cockes, turtell doves, knyghtes (_cheualiers_†), stares,
sparows, or _passeriaux_, finches, uerdieres,* frions, gold
finches, linotes, thrushe, felde fare, and all kyndes of small
byrdes (whereof the names ben without nombre) ben metes norisshyng
and of litell degestion, and that engendre good blode.”
_Du Guez’s Introductorie_, p. 1071-2.

[Footnote §: _Beccasse_, f. A Woodcock. _Becasse petite_, A Snite
or Snipe.]

[Footnote †: _Chevalier_, A daintie Water-fowle, as big as a
Stock-doue, and of two kinds, the one red, the other blacke. Cot.]

[Footnote *: _Verdrier_, m. The Gold-hammer, Yellow-ha{m}mer,
Yowlring. Cot.]

Capon, how to carve, 26/409;
to sauce or carve, p. 161.

Capon, boiled, 54/799;
verjuice its sauce, 36/534.
“Capons boyled, and chekyns, ben lykewyse of good nourysshyng,
and doth engender good blode, but whan they ben rosted, they ben
somewhat more colloryke, and all maner of meates rosted, the tone
more the tother lesse.” Du Guez, p. 1071.

Capon pie, 31/481.

Capon, roast, how to carve, 16½1.

Cappe, 65/964, night-cap.

Cappe-de-huse, 62/909, ? cape for the house, Fr. _cappe_, a short
cloake, or loose and sleeuelesse garment, which hath, instead of
a Cape, a Capuche behind it. Cot.

Caprik, 9/120; p. 91, No. 13, a sweet wine.

Caraway, Careawey, 6/79, caraway-seeds, (from καρον, cumin; Lat.
_careum_; Ar. _karawiya_; Mahn,) 50/713; 152/25; 157/11; 231/389.

Cardinal, rank of a, 70/1008; 72/1045.

Carding, eschew, 234/599.

Cariage, p. 280, 279, l. 59, act of carrying.

Carowayes, 231/389, caraway-seed cakes.

Carp, 40/578; 51/735; 58/842; p. 116.[1]

[Footnote 1: And of the carp, that it is a deyntous fyssche, but
there ben but fewe in Englonde; and therefore I wryte the lasse of
hym. --_Jul. Berners’s Book of St Alban’s._]

Carpentes, 169/9, 18, carpets under foot? _See_ carpettes for
cupbordes, l. 19.

Carpets, about a bed, windows, &c, 63/927-8.

Carry your body up, 213/133.

Carver, his duties, p. 24-32;
assays the wine?, and carves the lord’s meat, 209/789-95.
[[209 for 203]]
_See_ Keruynge.

Carving of fish, p. 166-7;
of flesh, p. 157.

Carving-knives, panter to lay two, 200/673.

Cast, 197/607, armful or pitchfork-full.

Cast of bread, 198/631, ? armful, lot taken up at one heave.

Cast up thy bed, 226/61.

Castles, the Receiver sees to repairs of, 197/601.

Castyng, 187/336, ?

Cat, don’t stroke it at meals, 180/107.

Cate, 274/143, ? cat (_hond_, hound).

Cathedral prior sits above others, 77/1150.

Cato quoted, 232/491.

Cats to be turned out of bedrooms, 66/969; p. 108, p. 109; 169/34.

Caucius, a fish, p. 116.

Cawdrons, the sauce for swans, p. 159, last line. _See_ Chawdon.

Cellar, yeomen of the, 21/311.

Celle, 12/176, cell.

_Cena Domini_, fires in hall stop on, 189/398; [[189 for 95]]
Shere Thursday or Maundy Thursday, day before Good Friday.

Cetus, the greatest whale, p. 116.

Ceuy, 55/822, chive-sauce.

Chafer, 192/466, a heater.

Chaffire, 45/639.
“Chafowre to make whote a thynge, as watur. _Calefactorium._”
Prompt.

Chalcedony to be worn in a ring, p. 141.

Chambur, bason for, 66/971.

Chamberlain, the duties of one, p. 59-69, p. 168-9.

Chancellor, his duties, 195/563.

Chandelew, 199/642, chandlery, stock of candles.

Chandler, his bread, 198/628;
his duties, p. 204-11.

Change (countenance or temper?) don’t, 270/92.

Char, 180/96, turn, trick.

Chardequynce, 152/21, chare de quynces, 5/75;
conserve of quinces, or quince marmalade. _Charequynses_, 10łb.
the boke, vs̃--2ł., 10s. A.D. 1468, _H. Ord._ p. 103. Marmalet of
Quinces. R. Holme, Bk. III., p. 80, col. 1.

Charger, 44/633;
Chargere, 26/405, a kind of dish.

Charity, the fruits of, p. 233, cap. x.

Charlet, 159/28; p. 173.

Chat after meals, p. 142.

Chatter, don’t, 253/94; 257/186.

Chafing-dysshe, 162/2, heating dish.

Chaundeler, 299/492, chandler, officer in charge of the candles.

Chawdon (chawdron, p. 161), the sauce for swan, 36/535; p. 97.

Chawdwyn, the sauce for swans, 48/688.

Cheeks, don’t puff ’em out, 211/65;
don’t stuff yours out like an ape’s, 179/57.

Cheese, hard, 6/78; 7/85; p. 84, p. 85; 7/84-8; 8/102; 152/24.

Cheese, 55/815; 152/19.

Cheese, the best cement for broken pots, p. 85.
Ruin cheese, p. 7, note 3; 85/3.

Cheese, have a clean trencher for, 256/183.

Cheese, fruit, and biscuits, for dessert, 231/388.

Cheese, only take a little, 269/76.

_Fourmage est bon quand il y en a peu_: Prov. The lesse cheese the
better; or, cheese is good when a miserable hand giues it. Cot.

Chekker, 196/594, the Exchequer.

Chekkid, 25/389; 31/492, cut into chequers or squares.

Chekmate, 8/96.

Cherlis, 267/34, 48, poor, rude, and rough people.

Cherries, 6/77; 46/668; 152/23.

Chet, 199/501, coarse bread; chet loaf to the almsdish, 200/687.

Cheven (Cheuene, 166/13), chub, 51/736, note 3; 58/842.
Fr. _Vilain_, the _Cheuin_ or Pollard fish (called so because it
feedes vpon nothing but filth). Cot. _See_ Chub.

Cheve, 24/369, end.

Chewettes, 161/4; p. 171; 173/3.

[Transcriber’s Note:
Reference to “p. 171” could not be identified. Chewets are
mentioned on 161/4, 165/3 and 173/24.]

Chicken, boiled, 54/799;
roast, 54/808;
chicken pie, 31/481.

Chickens, how to carve, 25/397.

Chide not, 253/102.
“I lyken the to a sowe, for thou arte ever chyding at mete.”
Palsgrave, p. 611, col. 2.

Chief Justices, rank of, 70/1014; 72/1052.

Childe, or young page, the King’s, 75/1124.

Children soon get angry, 279, 280/81; 281, 282/85;
give ’em an apple then, 280/84;
and a rod when they’re insolent, 281, 282/89.

Children, to wait on their parents at dinner before eating their own,
229/297; 231/423;
the duty of, 241/5.

Chin, hold it up when you speak, 262/14;
keep it clean at dinner, 272/107.

Chine, 25/393.
Fr. _Eschinon_: m. The _Chyne_, or vpper part of the backe betweene
the shoulders. _Eschine_: f. The _Chyne_, backe bone, ridge of the
backe. 1611, Cotgrave.

Chip, p. 84; 152/4. “I chyppe breed. _Je chappelle du payn ... je
descrouste du pain ..._ and _je payre du pain._ Chyppe the breed
at ones, for our gestes be come.” Palsgrave, p. 484, col. 1.
_See_ “choppe” and “chyppere.”

Choke, don’t, by drinking with your mouth full, 180/98.

Choppe (loaves), 4/51; p. 184.

Chub, p. 51, note 3.
_See_ Cheuen.

Church, how to behave in, 233/332 (this is the part that would follow
at the end of the _Booke of Demeanor_, p. 296).

Church, behave well at; go to, 266/17.

Chyme of a pipe, 152/18, rim.

Chymné, 192/461, fire-place or brasier.

Chyne, 5/70, rim of a cask.

Chyne, 25/393; 159/15, 16, back, loin.
_See_ Chine.

Chyne, p. 151, carve.

Chynchynge, 153/11, pinching.
Metaphorically “_chynchyn_ or sparyn mekylle, _perparco_.” Prompt.

Chyppere, 152/4, a knife to chip bread with.

Cinnamon and salt as sauce for venison, &c., 37/542-3.

Cinnamon, eaten with lamprey-pie, 44/636;
with fish, 58/842, 847; 168/11.

Cinnamon, 153/30.

Ciryppe, 56/826, syrop.

Civeye (chive sauce), hares and conies in, p. 309; 55/822.

Clared wyne, 153/19.

Clarey, 9/120; p. 91, No. 14;
Clarrey, 153/21. Sp. _Clarea_: f. Clary drinke of hony and wine.
Some say Muscadell, others call it Nectar or kingly drinke. 1591,
Percivale, ed. Minsheu, 1623.

Clarke of the crowne and th’eschekere, 70/1019.

Claryfinynge, 9/124.

Claw, don’t, 253/81; 262/18; 274/139.

Claw not your head, &c., 18/279.

“I clawe, as a man or beest dothe a thyng softely with his nayles.
_Je grattigne ..._ Clawe my backe, and I wyll clawe thy toe.”
Palsgrave.

Claynos buttur, 39/559.

Cleanse your spoon, 179/74.

Clene, 262/28, fitting, courteous.

Clerk of the Kitchen, 195/549;
his duties, 195/553-62;
gets money from the Treasurer, 196/579.

Clof, 192/462, ? [[Can it be “cloth”?]]

Cloke, 62/909, cloak.

Cloos-howse, 80/1202, lock-up place for food.

Cloth, how to lay the, 13/187, &c., 154/23;
how to take it off the table, 231/399.

Cloth, keep it clean, 269/61, 81; 272/123; 277/39; 278/40;
don’t wipe your knife on it, 272/122;
or your nose, 263/53.

Clothes, don’t wipe your nose on, 210/48.
_See_ Apparel.
“Graue clothes make dunces often seeme great clarkes.”
Cot., u. _fol._

Clothing of officers, given out by the clerk of the kitchen, 195/561;
of lord and lady, by the chancellor, 195/563.

Cloven-footed fowls, skin of, is unwholesome, 163/18. [[163 for 165]]

Clowche, 33/503, belly?
Not “clowchyn or clowe (clewe), _glomus_, _globus_.” Prompt.

Clutch at the best bit, don’t, 263/29.

Coat, long, 60/872.

Cock and hen, p. 105.

Cock, shooting at; girls not to go to, 289/81.

Cockes, 24/375, cooks.

Cod, 58/845; 168/12.

Cod, how to carve, 40/576;
names of, p. 99.

Codling, a fish, p. 59, note; 167/7.

Codware not to be clawed, 19/286;
not to be exposed, 20/305.

Coffyn, cofyn, 30/478; 31/481; 96/2, 22, &c., crust of a pie.

Cold, head and feet to be kept from, p. 138.

Cold fritter is not to be eaten, 33/502.

_Colericus_, 53/772; p. 54; p. 104.

Colice, 56/824, broth.

Collector, the Pope’s, 70/1023; 72/1063.

Cologne, the kings of, 50/712.

Colombyne gynger, 10/131;
Columbyne gyngre, 52/758;
a kind of ginger. ? what.

Coloure de rose, 9/114.
_See_ note there;
it was a wine, p. 86, extract from the _Four Elements._

Colvering, 126/3, ?

Comade, 96/4; sauce of whipped eggs and milk.

Comb for the hair, 61/885.

Comb your head often, p. 130;
nothing recreateth the memorie more, p. 128.

Comb your head, 266/14;
do it 40 times every morning, p. 139.

Comb your lord’s head, 65/963; 169/2, 28.

Comedies, 34/510, quaint dishes?

Comenynge, 81/1220, communication, teaching.

Comfit, 50/714; p. 104.

Commende, 254/120.
Fr. ?_Commander,_ to recommend, or to commit ouer vnto the care of
another. _À Dieu vous command._ God be with you. Cot.

Commensed, 77/1154, taken a degree.

Commyn, 46/671, communicate, talk.

Companions, pray for your, 182/161.

Compleccion, 52/764, device.

Compleccyon, 165/11, disposition.
My _complexcyon_ a-cordyth to eny mete,
But rere sopers j refowse, lest j shuld surfett.
Piers of Fullham, l. 197-8.

Compostes, 5/75, note; 6/79; 152/21; 154/19.
_See_ Recipe 100, _Forme of Cury_, p. 49.

Conche or muscle fish, p. 116.

Concoction, 136/12, digestion.

Concordable, 54/796, suitable.

Condel, smale, 205/826, tapers.

_Confiteor_, the, to be learnt, 181/154.

Confites, 5/75; p. 85, note to l. 82, comfits.

Confyte, 51/731, a comfit.

Congaudence, 79/1190, congratulation, satisfaction.

Conger, 38/555; 41/583; 51/733; p. 117.
Richard Sheale, the minstrel and ballad-writer, says,

“I can be content, if it be out of Lent,
A piece of beef to take, my hunger to aslake.
Both mutton and veal is good for Richard Sheale;
Though I look so grave, I were a very knave
If I would think scorn, either evening or morn,
Being in hunger, of fresh salmon or _congar_.”

Knight’s Life of Caxton, p. 48.

Conger, salt, 57/833.

Congettynge, 80/1202, conspiracy, tricks.

Connynge, 81/1220-2, learning, knowledge.

_Contrarotulator_, p. 195, the controller.

Controller, his work, 195/541, 550;
sits on the dais in hall, 177/20.
“I feel by William Peacock that my nephew is not yet verily
acquainted in the king’s house, nor with the officers of the
king’s house he is not taken as none of that house; for the cooks
be not charged to serve him, nor the sewer to give him no dish,
for the sewer will not take no men no dishes till they be
commanded by the _controller_.” Clement Paston, P. Letters, ed.
1841, v. 1, p. 144 (XV. vol. iv. p. 53, orig.).

Cold of speech, be, 272/98.

Cony, 34/517; 49/694; 54/807; p. 107.
“And conÿs, hares, rabettes (_laperaus_), buckes, does, hartes,
hyndes, robuckes, or lepers (_cheureus ou saillanz_), holde also
all of melancoly.” Du Guez.

Cony, how to carve, 29/447; 159/12;
to unlace or cut up, p. 162.

Cony, with mustard and sugar, 36/538.

Conyd, 274/149, learnt.

Coochele, sea-snails, p. 116.

Cook must obey a marshal, 79/1182.

Cooks are always finding out new dishes, and nearly killing people,
33/505.

Coost, 49/705, rank, succession?
Fr. _coste à coste_, in euen ranke, side by side. Cotgrave.

Cope, 200/689, covering, towel ?

Copious of talk, don’t be, 279, 280/74.

Coral, 141/3.

Coretz, a fish, p. 119.

Cornys, p. 218, No. xvi. different kinds of grain.

Cote, 267/48, cot, cottage.

Cottell, 168/14, cuttle-fish.

[Transcriber’s Note:
Also p. 174 (note on “Cottell”).]

Cotyn, cotton, to be kept in the privy, 64/935.

Couche, 154/25.

Couertoure, 202/753, dish-cover;
203/791, cover, or lid of a wine-cup.

Cough not, 18/271;
before your lord, 19/297.

Counturpynt, 192/455, counterpane.

Countyng, 194/535, reckoning.

Courteous, be, to God, and kneel at prayers, 182/163.

Courtesy came from heaven, 265/4; 266/6;
all virtues are included in it, 265/8; 266/10.

Courtesy and gentleness, delight in, 256/180.

Courts (fines of), 196/577.

Couth, 272/118, ? truly, indeed, A.S. _cudlice_, certainly.

Couthe, 180/114, known persons, friends.

Coverlet of a bed, 63/923.

Cowd, 3/34-5, knew.

Cowche, 13/187, and note, the undermost table-cloth.

Cowheels mixed with jellies, 34/515.

Crab, how to carve and dress one, 42/590-601; 165/14. [[165 for 167]]

Crache, 274/139; 275/14; 276/14.
‘Clawyn or cracchyn, scratche, _Scalpo, scrato, grado_.’ Cath. in
P. Pl.; ‘_Krauwen, krabben_, kratsen, _ofte schrabben_.’ Hexham.

Craftsmen, their duty, 242/12.

Cram your mouth full, don’t, 267/38.

Crane (the bird), 36/539; p. 97; 49/695;
p. 102, and note *, for their fighting pigmies.

Crane, how to carve, 28/429;
or dysplaye, p. 162.

Crane’s trump, take care of it, 28/431; 157/4. [[157 for 159]]

Crawe, 19/288; Fr. _iabot_, the craw, crop, or gorge of a bird.
Cotgrave.

Crayfish, how it catches oysters, p. 115; p. 117;
freshwater, p. 116. _See_ Creues, &c.

Cream, cow- and goat-, 7/81; 8/93; p. 85; 54/803;
is bad, 152/27.
“The dyvell burst him, he hath eaten all the _creame_ without me.”
Palsgrave, p. 472, col. 2.

Credence, 80/1195-9, tasting food against poison. Only done for the
highest ranks, down to an earl.

Creed, to be learnt by boys, 181/167.

Creues (crayfish), how to carve, 167/20.

Crevice, freshwater, 58/848.

Crevis dewe douȝ, fresh-water cray-fish; how to carve, 43/618.

Crevise, freshwater, 50/707.

Crevise or cray-fish, how to carve, 42/602;
the names of, p. 100.

Crochettis, 197/446, hooks.

Cropyns, 24/362, crops, craws, of birds.

Croscrist, 181/144.

Cross, make the sign of, on rising, 266/12.

Croups of birds indigestible, 158/7.

Cruddes, 8/93, curds.

Culpon, p. 151, cut into chunks.

Cup, don’t ask a friend to take it, but give it him yourself, 180/123.

Cupboard, 13/193, table or stand for cups, &c., to stand on;
is in the marshal’s charge, 189/390;
to be covered with carpets, 169/19.

Cupborde, bread and wine stand on (or in), 194/511.

Cuppeborde in a bed-room, 63/928.

Cups to be silver, p. 136.

Cure, 78/1174, charge.

Cure, 21/324; 31/492; custom, way of doing a thing.

Cure, 28/435, directions.

Cure, 24/375, craft, art, practice.

Curies, 33/506, dodges, curious dishes.

Curlew, 49/706; 157/8;
how to carve, 27/421;
to untache or cut up, p. 162.

_Sir Degrevant_, l. 1406, p. 235, has
ffatt conyngus and newe,
ffesauntys and corelewe.

Cursie, 230/328, curtsey.

Curtains, bed-, 66/968;
four to a bed, 191/448.

_Curtasye, the Boke of_ (Sloane MS. 1986), p. 175-205.

Curtesy, 156/9, a bow or salutation.

Curtsey, make your, decently, 214/153.

Cury, 34/513, dodges, sleights.

Cushion, to be put on the chair, 61/882.

Cuspis, p. 32, note 2.

Custade costable, 54/802, a kind of custard.

Custard, how to carve, 31/492; p. 95; 157/1; 159/21.

Cut your meat, don’t bite it, 269/63.

Cut, 153/22, cute wine.

Cute, 9/118; p. 87, No. 3, a sweet wine.
Fr. _Vin cuict._ Wine boyled on the fire to a certaine thicknesse,
and then put into vessells, and reserved for sweet sawces. Cot.

Cute, 10/138, baking.

Cute, gynger of iij, 11/159.

Cuttid, 20/305, short-coated.

Cuttlefish, p. 174.

Cyueye (chive or onion sauce), hares and conies in, p. 309.

Dace, 40/575; p. 98, bottom, 58/841;
Fr. _Sophie_ ... the Dace or Dare-fish. Cot.

Damsons, 6/77; p. 91, last note (wrongly headed, l. 177); 46/668;
152/23.

Dangle like a bell, don’t, 214/152.

Dates, 5/74; p. 32, note 2; 51/731; 152/21, 23; p. 167, last line.

Dates in confite, 56/825;
in confetes, 166/11; capte with mynced ginger, 166/19.

Daungeresnes, 46/659, of great difficulty.

Daw, a, sticks its neck askew, 19/285.

Dean, rank of, 70/1016; 72/1060.

Debt, keep out of, 270/80.

Degree, University; rank of clerks that have taken one, 71/1028.

Degree (of men), the duty of each, p. 241-8. [[8 for 3]]

Delicatis, 50/713; delicacies.

Delphin, or mermaid, p. 117.

_Demeanor, The Booke of_, p. 207-14.

Demeene, 78/1163; learn ? or arrange.

Demurely, walk in the streets, 275, 276/18.

Depelled, 142/12, driven out.

Dere, 47/684, injury.

Deshe, 177/20, dais.

Despisers of courtesy are not fit to sit at table, 271/99; 181/137.

Dewe, 43/618, of water.

Dewgarde, leche, 157/10.

Dewynge, 51/732, service.

Deynteithe, 52/752, ? inclination, desire.

Deynteithly, 55/814, toothsomely.

Deyntethe, adj., 50/723, toothsome, dainty.

Deyntethe, sb., 194/527, dainty.

Diaper towel, 154/31.

Diapery, towelle of, 13/193.

Diatrion piperion, to be used against rheums, p. 137.

Dice, don’t play at with your lord, 184/228.

Diet, 31/488, food.

Diet, one for every day, p. 133.

Difence, 278/51;
? Fr. _defense_, a reply, answer, argument, or allegation vsed, or
vrged in defence. Cot. _Faire defense_ is now to forbid, prohibit.

Dig your thumb into your nose, don’t, 186/327.

Digest his stomak, his food, 65/947.

Digne, 71/1024, worthy.

Diligences, 79/1183, duties.

Dim sight, remedy for, p. 135.

Dinner described, from the laying of the cloth, 199/655, to the
removal of the board and trestles, 204/822.

Dinner of flesh, p. 48-50, p. 100;
of fish, p. 50-2;
fruits to be eaten before, 46/667-8.

Dinner at noon, what the page is to do at, 254/128.

Dinner and supper, the only meals allowed, p. 141.

Dip your meat in the saltcellar, don’t. _See_ Salt.

Dipping slices of meat in sauce, 30/467.

Dirty clothes forbidden, 214/167.

Disallow, 29/1181.

Dischmetes, 34/514. [[entry added by editor]]

Dise, 8/112, an adze?

Dish taken away, don’t ask for it again, 256/166; 179/83.

Dish-side, spoon not to be laid on, 179/73; 272/126.

Dismember, p. 151, carve.

_Dispendu_, 201/543 (? eatables, &c., not money), disposed of,
consumed.

Dispenses, 195/555, payments, expenditure.

Dissolute laughters, avoid, 275/20.

Diswere, 191/436, doubt.
Halliwell. “Platt-D. _waren_ is to certify, assure; to prove by
witnesses, &c.; _wahr_, true, is, I believe, what is certain,
sure. ‘_Ik will jou de Waarschup darvan bringen_,’ I will bring
you the truth of it, will bring you certain intelligence of it.
_Diswere_ then would be uncertainty.” --H. Wedgwood.

Do to others as you would they’d do to you, 182/175.

Doctor of both laws (Canon and Civil), _utriusque juris_, 71/1024;
72/1062.

Doctor of divinity, rank of, 70/1021; 72/1062.

Doctors of 12 years’ standing, rank above those of nine, 77/1153.

Document, 250/6, L. _documentum_, that which teaches, a lesson,
example for instruction; Fr. _document_, precept, instruction,
admonition. Cot.

Dog, don’t claw yours at dinner, 179/87.

Dogs to be turned out of bedrooms, 66/969; p. 109; 169/33.
One reason for turning dogs out of the bedroom at night is given in
Palsgrave’s “I wolde gladly yonder dogge were hanged, he never
ceased whowlyng all nyght,” p. 784-5.

Donne, 169/23, down.

Dorray, 51/733, dorée.

Doree, the fish, 41/582; 166/12.

Dosurs, 189/391, canopies, hangings: ‘Docere of an halle: _Dorsorium,
auleum_.’ Prompt. Fr. _Vn_ dossier _de pavillon_. The head of a
Pauillion, or Canopie; the peece that hangs down at the head
thereof. Cot.

Doted daf (confounded ass, stupid fool), don’t be one, 186/326.

Doublet, 60/872; 61/892; 62/899; 169/1.

Douȝ, 43/618, soft, fresh (water).

Dowcetes, dowcettes, a dish, 32/494;
recipe at p. 309; 49/699; 54/809. [[309 for 146]]

Dowled drink not to be given to any one, 154/22;
_dowld_, dead, flat (Yorkshire), Halliwell;
not ‘_dollyd_, sum what hotte, _tepefactus_.’ Prompt.

Dowt, 79/1188, fear.

Doyle, 19/285, skew.

Draconites, 141/7, the dragonstone.

Dragons herbe, p. 134.

Drapery, 64/946, cloths.

Draughtes, 25/388, drawn lines, scorings.

Dresser, in the kitchen, 195/557.

Dressing described, p. 168-9.

Drink hinders digestion, p. 136.

Drink, how assayed, 203/785-93;
how to hand, 209/9.

Drink not behind a man’s back, 269/75;
wipe your mouth first, 272/105.

Drink all in the cup, don’t, 185/289.

Drink with full mouth, don’t, 272/110.

Drink moderately, 279, 280/73.

Drivel not with your mouth, 19/292.

Drop soup on your breast, don’t, 279, 280/57.

Dropynge from the eyes, 18/283.

Drunk, don’t get, p. 258, p. 260, l. D.

Drunkelewe, 216/1, drunken; ’drunkelew _ebriosus_.’ Prompt.
For the _-lewe_ = _-ly_; cp. ‘delicat horses that ben holden for
delyt, that they ben so faire, fat, and _costlewe_.’ Chaucer.
_Parsones Tale_, Poet. Works, ed. Morris, iii. 298; _costlewe_
furring in here gownes, _ib._ p. 296.

Drunken servants to be turned away, 216/1.

Dry thy mouth before drinking, 179/81.

Duchess, 200/680.

Duck: see _Mallard_.

‘The ducke maketh a clere voyce, & causeth ma_n_ to lay gladdly in
the armes & geueth hy_m_ the sede of nature / & the sewet is of
it very good to souple all maner of paynes in the bodi of man.”
--_Noble Lyfe._ L. i. back.

Dugard, leche, 50/708.

Duke of royal blood, 70/1011; 72/1048.

Duke to dine alone, 171/4.

Dumb, don’t be, 184/255.

Dysfygure, p. 151, carve.

Dysplaye, p. 151, carve.

Earl, the lowest rank for which food was tasted by a servant, 80/1198.

Ears, not to be picked, 267/33; 19/289;
to be kept clean, 226/99.

Ease (quiet), live in, 270/82.

Easter-day feast, p. 160.

Easter to Whit-sunday, feasts and service from, p. 160.

Eat properly, 263/40;
not hastily, 265/19.

Eat, don’t, till your mess is brought from the kitchen, 178/43.

Echeola, the pearl-muscle, p. 117.

Echynus, p. 118.

Edwite, 278/28, blame, reproach, turt; A.S. _edwítan._

Eel, salt, 57/834.

Eels, bred from slime, p. 114.

Eels, roasted, 41/588; 58/848.

Eels, names of, p. 99.

Eels, 50/719; 51/737; 55/820; p. 104.

Eernesful, p. 260, l. E;
A.S. _geornes_, earnestness;
_geornfull_, full of desire, eager, anxious.

Egestyon, 130/15, evacuations.

Egge, 22/335, edge.

Eggs, 54/803; p. 106.

Egre, 57/837; Fr. _aigre_, eagre, sharpe, tart, biting, sower. Cot.

Egret, 36/539; p. 97; 49/697, great white heron.

Egret, how to carve, 27/421;
to breke or carve, p. 162.

Elbows, don’t lean on, at meals, 267/45; 180/125.

_Elemosinarius_, 201/728-9, the Almoner.

Elenge, p. 260, l. E.

Elephant, don’t you snuffle like he does, 211/59.

Elizabeth, 265/6; 266/8.

Embrowyng, 255/147, dirtying, soiling;
Fr. _embroué_, bedurtied, soiled, defiled. Cot.

Emperialle, 15/231, set out, deck, adorn.

Emperor, after the pope, 70/1006.

Empty your mouth before speaking, 263/59; 272/110; 277/32; 278/32.

Enboce, p. 277, } l. 31, stuff out;
Enbrace, p. 278, }
? Fr. _emboucher_, to mouth or put into the mouth of.

Enbrewe, 22/331, dirty, soil.

Enbrowide, 278/39;
Fr. _embroué_, ... bedurtied, soiled, defiled. Cotgrave.

Enbrowynge, 30/468, soiling, dirtying.

Enclyne, 177/23, bow.

End of a meal, what to do at the, 257/190.

Endoured, 161/3, glazed; endoured pygyons, 164/15.

Endure, 35/524, make to last; ‘_endurer faut pour durer_:’ Pro.
To dure we must endure. Cotgrave.

Enemies, man’s three, 183/219.

Englandis gise, a flesh feast after, 35/526.

Enlased, 26/412, cut up, carved.

Enourmyd, 250/17, adorned;
O. Fr. _aorner_, L. _adornare_; not _enorer_, honour.

Entende, 64/936, 939, attend.

Entendyng, 46/665, listening for orders, attending.

Enter a lord’s place, how to, 252/58.

Entremete, 254/109, interfere.

Envy no one, 237/795.

Equal, give way to your, 185/276;
don’t play with him, 264/77.

Errands, going, 209/13.

Esox, a fish of the Danube, p. 118.

Esquyere, þe body, 70/1016, the Esquire of the King’s person.

Est, 187/346, host.

Estate, how to lay or make, with a cloth, 13/192; 17/152; p. 92.

Estate, 65/957, rank, 73/1072-3.

Estates, 72/1053, ranks, persons.

Euwere, 199/641, water-bringer;
L. _aquarius_, Fr. _eauïer_, is a gutter, channell, sinke, sewer,
for the voiding of foule water. Cotgrave.

Evacuate yourself, p. 133.

Evy, 7/91, heavy.

Ewer, 64/937; 231/413, jug of water;
water-bearer, 199/641, 655, &c.

Ewerer, strains water into the basins, 200/695.

Ewery, 13/192, drinking vessels.

Ewery, 154/31, stand or cupboard for water-vessels;
how to dress it, 155/23.

Exonerate, 130/16, unload, disburden.

Eyebright water, 135/2.

Eyes, don’t make ’em water by drinking too much, 263/57.

Eyes, don’t wipe ’em on the table-cloth, 180/116;
wash them, p. 134; p. 139.

Eyes, how to use the, 210/33.

Eyes, not to be cast about, 275, 276/8; 231/679.

Eyroun, p. 146, eggs.

Facche, 42/599, fetch.

Face, look in the man’s you’re speaking to, 262/16; 270/67.

Facett, 250/8; Fr. _Facet_: m. A Primmer, or Grammer for a young
scholler. Cotgrave. Faceet, booke, _Facetus_ (well-speaking,
polite). Pr. Parv.

Falconers, 195/564.

Fall, if any one does, don’t laugh at him, 184/235.

Familiar, don’t be too, p. 258, F; p. 260, line F.

Familiar friends, always admit, p. 217, No. xv.

Fande, 76/1143, try, experience?

Fangle, 229/268, toy, thing.

Farsed, 23/358; p. 94, stuffed.

Fast now and then, p. 142.

Father and mother; worship and serve them, 182/172.

Fathers and mothers, duty of, 241/4.

Fatnes, 277/37; 278/39, fat, grease.

Faucettes, 152/16, taps.

Fawcet, 5/68; p. 84; 152/16, a tap.
Yn tyme therfore tye vp your tryacle tappe; Let not to long thy
_fawset_ renne. Piers of Fullham, l. 228-9. _Early Pop. P._, v. 2,
p. 10.
Stryke out the heed of your vesselles, our men be to thrustye to
tarye tyll their drinke be drawen with a _faulsed_. Palsgrave,
p. 740, col. 1.
Fr. _Guille_: f. The quille or _faucet_ of a wine vessell. Cot.

Fawn, 49/694;
how to carve, 28/441.

Fawn, and ginger sauce, 36/537.

Fawte, 82/1238, make default or mistakes.

Fayge, fruyter, 157/10; p. 173.

Featherbed to be beaten, 63/921; 169/12.

Feed elegantly, 256/185.

Feede onely twice a day, p. 141.

Feet to be kept still, 270/66; 275/7; 279, 280/56.

Feet and hands together, 235/677.

Feet, what birds to be served with their, 28/435.