[99.]
¶ Lessons for waiting servants.
1
One diligent [seruiture], skilfull to [waight],
more comelieth thy table than other some eight,
That stand for to listen, or [gasing] about,
not minding their dutie, within nor without.
2
Such waiter is [fautie] that standeth so by,
vnmindful of seruice, forgetting his [ey].
If maister to such giue a bone for to gnaw,
he doth but his [office], to teach such a [daw].
3
Such seruiture also deserueth a check,
that runneth out fisging[E474] with meat in his beck.
Such rauening [puttocks] for vittles so trim,
would haue a good maister to puttock with him.
4
Who daily can suffer, or else can [afoord],
his meat so vp snatched that comes from his boord?
So tossed[1] with cormorants, here and there some,
and others to want it that orderlie come?
5
Good seruiture [waieth] (once dinner [begon],)
what asketh attendance and what to be don.
So purchasing maister a praise with the best,
gets praise to himselfe, both of maister and gest.
[1] toesed. 1577.