Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

ASCRIBED TO JOHN LIDGATE.[*]

The two versions of Stans Puer ad Mensam were printed on facing even/odd pages. They are here presented twice: first as separate texts with all accompanying notes, and then [side by side]. In the original book, the editor’s sidenotes were printed only on the right-hand pages; they have been duplicated here.

[MS. Harl. 2251, ? about 1460 A.D., fol. 153 or 148. The parts between brackets [ ], and various readings, are from Mr Halliwell’s print in Reliquiæ Antiquæ, v. 1, p. 156-8, of a 15th-century MS. Q. Γ. 8, fol. 77, r^o, in the Library of Jesus College, Cambridge.]

¶ [My dere childe, first thiself enable

With all thin herte to vertuous disciplyne

Afor thi soverayne standing at the table,

Dispose thi youth aftir my doctryne

To all norture thi corage to enclyne.