Early English Meals and Manners

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[3.] At English Universities, p. xxvi.

[4.] At Foreign Universities, p. xl.

[5.] At Monastic and Cathedral Schools, p. xli.

[6.] At Grammar Schools, p. lii.

One consideration should be premised, that manly exercises, manners and courtesy, music and singing, knowledge of the order of precedency of ranks, and ability to carve, were in early times more important than Latin and Philosophy. ‘Aylmar þe kyng’ gives these directions to Athelbrus, his steward, as to Horn’s education:

Stiwarde, tak nu here

Mi fundlyng for to lere

Of þine mestere,

Of wude and of riuere;

And tech him to harpe