Caxton's Book of Curtesye eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 77 pages of information about Caxton's Book of Curtesye.

Caxton's Book of Curtesye eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 77 pages of information about Caxton's Book of Curtesye.

Lips, wipe yours before drinking, l. 186, 189.

Look men, you speak to, in the face, l. 99.

Louse, l. 462, catching lice.

Luting recommended, l. 302.

LYDGATE, Jo[=h]n, my master, l. 365; read his volumes large and wide, l. 379.

Malapert, Jack, don’t play, l. 491.  Fr. Mueiere, malapert, outrageous, ever doing one mischiefe or other. Marmiton, a saucie, malapert, or knauish fellow.  Cot.

Malouse, l. 461, Malo’s.

Manner & measure should guide you, l. 125.

Manners make man, l. 238.

Mass, help the priest at, l. 85.

Matins, our Lady’s, l. 32.

Mouth, eat with it shut, l. 241.

Multiply talking, don’t, l. 320.

Nails, clean yours, l. 44; don’t pare them at table, l. 247.

Norture, l. 436, deportment, manners.

Nose, clean it, l. 39; don’t pick it, l. 41.

OCKLYF; read his translation of De Regimine Principum, l. 351-64.

Oppose, l. 518, ’I oppose one, I make a tryall of his lernyng, or I laye a thyng to his charge, ie appose.’  Palsgrave.  See Towneley Mysteries, pp. 193-95.  Way, in Promptorium.

     We may bi oure law examyne hym fyrst.... ... let me oppose
     hym ...

     T.  Myst, p. 195.

Outrage, l. 278, outrageous, beyond bounds, too talkative. See
Malapert.

Owers, l. 34, see pryme.

Pater noster, say yours, l. 26, 77.

Pendable, l. 455, O., Fr. pendable, hangable, that deserves hanging, thats fit to be hanged.  Cot.

Poor table, men to be cheerful at, l. 253.

Presumption, beware of, l. 492.

Pride, beware of, l. 492.

Print your words in your mind before you speak them, l. 282.

Pryme & owers, l. 34.  ’The prime and other hours are the services Ad primam horam, Ad tertiam, Ad sextam, and Ad nonam, found in the Primer, or layman’s prayer-book.  They are sometimes called the middle hours, as distinguished from Matins and Vespers.’  H. Bradshaw.

Quaire, l. 520, 526, 532, quire, pamphlet, treatise.

Ravenous, don’t be, l. 176.

Read eloquent books, l. 310.

Rehersaylle, l. 288, rehearsal, repetition.

Repeat conversations, don’t, l. 288.

Report (tale-telling) is the chief nurse of mischief, l. 135.

Reward, l. 127, look at, watch.

Rising, what to do on, l. 23.

Secret, keep what you hear, l. 134.

Sewe, l. 481, follow, pursue.

Silence, keep, l. 140; in hall, l. 204.

Siluerous, l. 403, O., silvern.

Singing lustily is good for a child, l. 304.

Speak fair to folks, l. 60.

Speaking, the conditions to be observed in, l. 143.

Spoon, don’t put it in your dish or on the table, l. 267.

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