Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

That þou for-ȝete nat þis for no thyng,

But þou loke, hold hyt wel on þy mynde,

For þ^e beſt þu ſhalt hyt fynde;

For, as þe wyſe man ſayth and preuyth,

A leve chyld, lore he be-houyth;

And as men ſayth þat ben leryd,

He hatyth þ^e chyld þat ſparyth þ^e rodde;

And as þe wyſe man ſayth yn his boke

Off prouerbis and wyſedomes, ho wol loke,

Vnder a man that ſhold werre wynne,