Early English Meals and Manners

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your hondes frote ne rub / brydelynge with brest vppoñ your crawe;

with youre eris pike not / ner be ye slow of herynge;

areche / ne spitt to ferre / ne haue lowd laughynge;

Speke not lowd / be war of mowynge[56] & scornynge;

be no lier with youre mouthe / ne lykorous, ne dryvelynge.

with youre mouthe ye vse nowþer to squyrt, nor spowt;

be not gapynge nor ganynge, ne with þy mouth to powt

lik not with þy tonge in a disch, a mote to haue owt.

Be not rasche ne recheles, it is not worth a clowt.

with youre brest / sighe, nor cowghe / nor brethe, youre souerayne before;