Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

but yet a-nodur office þer is / saue y dar not endure

to frayne yow any further / for feere of displesure:

For to be a sewere y wold y hed þe connynge,

þañ durst y do my devoire / with any worshipfulle to be wonnynge;

señ þat y know þe course / & þe craft of kervynge,

[ y] wold se þe siȝt of a Sewere[179] / what wey he / shewethe in seruynge.”

[ Office of a sewer.][180]

“Now sen yt is so, my son / þat science ye wold fayñ lere,

drede yow no þynge daungeresnes; þus y shalle do my devere

to enforme yow feithfully with ryght gladsom chere,