URBANITATIS
MS. Cotton Caligula, A ii, fol. 88, 1446-60. Author unknown. Apparently first printed by Dr. Furnivall. The Duke of Norfolk, grandfather of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard, was among the young henchmen at the court of Edward IV., brought up on “the booke of urbanitie.”
p. [13]. Good manners, &c. William of Wykeham was more curt in his motto for Winchester College: “Manners makyth man.”
p. [14]. Close your hand, &c., i.e., one hand over the over, to keep a secret.
p. [14]. Had I wist. Proverbial. See notes on The Good Wife, p. [186], below.
p. [15]. Let your right shoulder, &c., i.e., keep a step behind him to the left.