Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

My chyld, y rede þe be wys, and take hede of þis ryme!

Old men yn prouerbe ſayde by old tyme

Than to be vntaught, and ſo be lore.’[1]

The chyld þat hath hys wyll alway

Shal thryve late, y thei[2] wel ſay,

And þer-for euery gode mannys chyld

That is to wanton and to wyld,

Lerne wel this leſſon for ſertayn,

That thou may be þ^e beter man.

Chyld, y warne þee yn al wyſe