Early English Meals and Manners

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of thy tunge be not to liberally,

arise therfrom temperally,

go to thy supper soberly

and to thy bed merely,

be in thyn Inne iocundely,

please thy loue duely,

and Slepe suerly.

With the different counsels to babees, pages, and servants, throughout this volume, may be compared Roger Ascham’s advice to his brother-in-law, Mr C. H., when he put him to service with the Earl of Warwick, A.D. 1559. Here follows part of it, from Whitaker’s Hist. of Richmondshire, p. 282.