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

Date:
1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    Keep your neck warm. Wear goatskin gloves. [* Fol. E. iv. b.] Don’t stand long on grass or stones. Don’t sleep in ratty rooms. Don’t take cold in your feet. quarell wyse as moclie as wyll lyne your lacket: tliis furre, for holsomnies, is praysed aboue sables, or any other fur. Your exteryall aparelvse accordyng to your honour. In sommer vse to were a scarlet petycote made of staniell or lynse wolse. In wynter and sommer kepe not your bed to bote, nor bynde it to strayte; kepe euer your necke warme. In somer kepe youi* necke and face from the sonne; vse to wear gloues made of goote skyn, perfumed with Amber degrece. And beware in sta?^dyng or lyeng on the *grounde in the reflection of the sonwe, but be mouable. If thou shalt com??ion or talke ^v^th any man : stande not styll in one place yf it be vpon y bare grouwde, or grasse, or stones : but be mouable in suche places. Stande nor syt vpon no stone or stones : Stande nor syt longe barehed vnder a vawte of stone. Also beware that you do not lye in olde cha??ibres which be not occupyed, specyally suche chambres as myse and rattes and snayles resorteth vnto : lye not in suche chambres, the whiche be depreued cleane from the sonne and open ayre; nor lye in no lowe Chambre, excepte it be boorded. Be- Avare that you take no colde on your feeto and legges. And of all Aveather beAvare that you do not ryde nor go in great and Impytous Avyndes. (A Com,pendyous Regy- ment or a Dyetary of lielth, made in Mouutjyylior: Com- pyled hy Andrewe Boorde, of PliysicJce Doctor. (Colo- phon.) Imprinted by me Eobert Wyer : DAA^ellynge at the sygne of seynt John Euangelyst, in S. INIartyns Parysshe, besyde Charynge Crosse.)