Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

For blode royalle somtyme tiȝt to be kynge in palle;

of þe whiche matere y meve no more: let god gouerne alle!

There as pope or cardynalle in þeire estate beynge,

þat hañ fadur & modur by theire dayes lyvynge,

þeire fadur or modir ne may in any wise be presumynge

to be egalle with theire soñ standynge ne sittynge:

Therfore fadir ne moder / þey owe not to desire

to sytte or stond by þeyre son / his state wille hit not require,

but by þem self / a chambur assigned for them sure,

Vn-to whom vche office ought gladly to do plesure.