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Stans puer ad mensam. mI dear child first thyself enable With all thin heart to virtuous discipline Afore thy sovereign standing at the table Dispose thy youth after my doctrine To all nurture thy courage incline First while thou speakest be not reckless Keep foot and finger still in peace Be simple of cheer cast not thy look a side Gaze not about turning over all Again the post lete not thy back abid Make not thy mirror also of the wall Pike not thy nose and in especial Be right well aware & set in thy thought Afore thy sovereign cracche ne rub nought Who that speaketh to the in any manner place Lumpisshly cast not thy heed a down But with sad cheer look him in the face Walk 〈…〉 〈…〉tes in the town Pare clean thy nails thin hands wash also To fore meet and when thou dost arise sit in the place that thou art assigned to Peer not to high in no manner wise And till thou see a fore the thy service Be not to hasty on breed for to bite Of greediness lest men the will atwyte Grinning and mows at the table eschew Cry not to loud keep honestly silence Tenbose thy jaws with meet it is not dew With full mouth speak not lest thou do offence Drink not bridled for haste ne for negligence Keep clean thy lips fro fat of flesh or fish Wipe fair thy spoon leave it not in thy dish Of thy breed no soppis that thou make Loud for to soup it is again gentleness With mouth embrued 〈…〉 thou not take And where so be thou dine or soup Of gentleness take salt with thy knife And beware thou blow not in the cup Reverence thy fellows begin with 'em no strife To thy power keep peace all thy life interrupt not where so that thou wend No man's tale till he have made an end With thy finger mark not thy tale Be well advised namely in tender age To drink by measure both win and ale Be not copious also of language As time requireth show so thy visage To glad ne to sorry but keep between twain For loss or lucre or any case sudden Be meek in measure not hasty but treatable Over moche is not worth in no thing To children longeth not be vengeable soon moved and assoon forgiving And as it is remembered by old writing Wrath of children is soon overgone With an apple parties be made at oon Of honest mirth lete be thy dalliance Swear none oaths speak no rybawdrye The best morsel have this in remembrance Hole to thyself allway do not apply part with thy fellow for that is courtesy Lad not thy trencher with many remissailles And fro blackness allewey keep thy nails Of courtesy also again the law With swoon dishonest for to do offence Of old surfettis atwyte not thy fellow Toward thy sovereign have always thy adutence Pleye not with thy knife take heed to my sentence At meet and at souper keep the still & soft Eke to and fro move not thy foot to oft Drop not thy breast with sauce ne pottage Bring no knives unscowred to the table Fill not thy spoon lest in the carriage Hit go be side which were not commendable Be quick and ready meek and serviceable Well awaiting to fulfil anon What thy sovereign commandeth the to done In child's war now mirth & now debate In their quarrel is no great violence Now play. now weeping. seld in one estate To their plaints give no great audience A rod reformeth all their insolence In their courage no rancour doth abide Who spareth the rod all virtue set a side Go little bylle barren of eloquence Pray young children that the shall see or read Though thou be not compendious of sentence Of the clauses for to take heed Which to all virtue shall thy youth lead Of the writing though there be no date If ought be amiss put the fault in lidgate . Explicit. Arise early Serve god devoutly The world busily Go thy way sadly Answer demurely Go to thy meet appetently And arise temperately And to thy souper soberly And to thy b●d merrily And be there jocundly And sleep sewrly . Explicit. . An holy Salue regina in english. ●Alue with all obeisance to god in humblesse Regina to regne ever more in bliss Mater to christ as we believe express Misericordie/ unto all wrecchisse Vita to quyken to help leall and lisse Dulcedo of most pleasant beauty And we say this land thy dowayr is And therefore we sing/ et spes nran salve Ad te most meek & most beingne virgin Clamamns loud with voice timorous Exules made/ by false fraud serpentine filii frail careful and dolorous Eve/ therefore our life laborious Ad te best mean to our lord god and man Suspiramus here in this see trobelous Gementes as sorofully as we can Et flentes oft with bitter tears smart In hac doleful/ painful and lamentable Lacrimarum wonding the mortal heart Valle restless grievous and changeable Eya ergo maiden most amiable Aduocata nostra oure mediatrice Illos tuos brightest and comfortable Misericordes ocules full of joy of paradise Ad nos fleeting in this see of torment Convert/ now of thy sovereign pity Et ihesum our lord prince omnipotent Benedictum full of most high bounty Fructum of life and rich benignity Ventris tui most ewrous creature Nobis post hoc exilium ostend To our eterne greatest joy and pleasure O clemens full of merciful richesse O pia full of rich compassion O dulcis full of help in each distress Virgo fairest way to salvation Maria flower of sweetest meditacian Salve with all our most lowly service Mater of life and eterne creation Salve ever as feir as we can suffice. Amen. Wit hath wonder and kind ne can How maiden is mother and god is man Leave thine asking and believe that wonder For might hath mastery & skill goth under . Deo laus etc. Who so of wealth taketh no heed He shall find fault in time of need This world is mutable thus saith sage There fore gather in time ere thou fall in age In wealth beware of woe what so the happis And here the even for dread of after clappis Fortune is variant ay turning her wheel He is wise that is ware or he harm feel Better is to suffer and fortune tabyde Than hastily to climb and suddenly to slide know ere thou knit & than thou mayst slake If thou knit ere thou know than it is to late