Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    Stiwarde, tak nu here Mi fundlyng for to lere 228 Of fine mestere, Of wnde and of riuere ; And tech him to harpe Wif his nayles scharpe ; 232 Binore me to kerne, And of fe cupe seme ; ]pn tech him of alle fe liste (craft, AS. list) j?at fn cure of wiste ; 236 [And] his feiren fon wise (mates thou teach) Into ofere se?Tiise. Horn fu nnderuonge, And tech him of harpe and songe. 240 King Horn, E. E. T. Soc., 1866, ed. Lumhy, p. 7.' So in Romances and Ballads of later date, we find The child was taught great nurterye; a Master had him vnder his care, & tanght him curtesie. Tryamore, in Bp. Percy’s Foho MS. toI. ii. ed. 1867. It was the worthy Lord of learen, he was a lord of hie degree ; he had noe more children hut one sonne, he sett him to schoole to learne curtesie. Lord of Learne, Bp. Percy’s Polio MS. vol. i. p. 182, ed. 1867. Chaucer’s Squire, as we know, at twenty years of age hadd'e hen somtyme in chivachie. In Flaundres, in Artoys, and in Picardie, And horn him wel, as in so litel space. In hope to stonden in his lady grace . . . Syngynge he was, or flowtynge, al the day . . Wel cowde he sitte on hors, and wel cowde ryde. He cowde songes wel make and endite, Justne and eek daunce, and Avel purtray and Anlte . . . Curteys he was, lowly, and servysahle. And carf beforn his fadur at the table. ^ Which of these accomplishments would Cambridge or Oxford teach 1 Music alone. That, as Harrison says, was one of the Quadrivials, ' Mr Wm. Chappell gave me the reference. ^ In the Eoraance of Blonde of Oxford, Jean of Dammartin is taken into the service of the Earl of Oxford as eseuier, esquire. He waits at table on knights, squires, valets, boys and messengers. After table, the ladies keep him to talk French with them.