Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

Next to the schools he hastens, each he views,

With care examines, anxious which to chuse.

The English most attract his prying eyes,

Their manners, words, and looks, pronounce them wise.

Theirs is the open hand, the bounteous mind;

Theirs solid sense, with sparkling wit combin’d.

Their graver studies jovial banquets crown,

Their rankling cares in flowing bowls they drown.[58]

Montpelier was another University whither Englishmen resorted, and is to be remembered by us if only for the memory of Andrew Borde, M.D., some bits of whose quaintness are in the notes to Russell in the present volume.

Padua is to be noted for Pace’s sake. He is supposed to have been born in 1482.