Stans puer ad mensam Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A06567 of text S106482 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 17030). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 9 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A06567 STC 17030 ESTC S106482 99842197 99842197 6831 2240908631

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A06567) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 6831) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1:33) Stans puer ad mensam Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [8] p. Printed by William Caxton, [Westminster : 1476?] By John Lydgate, who is named in the envoi on [A]3r. In verse. Caption title. Place of publication and printer's name from STC; publication date conjectured by Needham. Signatures: [A]⁴. "An holy salue regina in englissh", [A]3v-4v. Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library. eng Etiquette for children and teenagers -- Early works to 1800. eebo Stans puer ad mensam. Lydgate, John, 1476 10 1150 7 0 0 0 0 0 60.87 D The rate of 60.87 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2005-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2006-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-02 Sampled and proofread 2006-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
. Stans puer ad mensam . mI dere childe first thy self enable With all thin herte to vertuous discipline Afore thy souerayn stondyng at the table Dispose thy yongthe after my doctrine To alle norture thy corage enclyne First whyle thou spekest be not recheles Kepe fote and fynger styll in pees Be symple of chere cast not thy loke a syde Gase not aboute tornyng ouer all Agayn the poste lete not thy back abyd Make not thy myrrour also of the wall Pyke not thy nose and in especiall Be right wel ware & sette in thy thought Afore thy souerayn cracche ne rubbe nought Who that speketh to the in ony maner place Lumpisshly cast not thy hede a doun But with sad chere loke hym in the face Walk 〈…〉 〈…〉tes in the toun Pare clene thy naylles thin handes wasshe also To fore mete and whan thou dost aryse Sytte in the place that thou art assigned to Peere not to hye in no maner wyse And tyl thou see a fore the thy seruyse Be not to hasty on brede for to byte Of gredines lest men the wylle atwyte Grennyng and mowes at the table eschewe Crye not to lowde kepe honestly scilence Tenbose thy Iowes with mete it is not dewe With ful mouth speke not lest thou do offence Drinke not bridled for haste ne for negligence Kepe clene thy lippes fro fatte of flessh or fisshe Wype fair thy spone leue it not in thy disshe Of thy brede no soppis that thou make Lowde for to soupe hit is agayn gentilnes With mouth enbrued 〈…〉 thou not take And where so be thou dyne or soupe Of gentylnes take salt with thy knyf And beware thou blowe not in the couppe Reuerence thy felaws begyn with hem no stryf To thy power kepe pees alle thy lyf Interrupte not where so that thou wende No mans tale tyl he haue made an ende With thy fynger marke not thy tale Be wel auised namely in tender age To drynke by mesure bothe wyn and ale Be not copyous also of langage As tyme requireth shewe so thy visage To glad ne to sorye but kepe betwene tweyne For losse or lucre or ony caas sodeyne Be meke in mesure not hasty but tretable Ouer moche is not worth in no thing To children longeth not be vengeable Sone meuyd and assone forgeuyng And as hit is remembrid by olde wrytyng Wrath of children is sone ouergoon With an apple parties be made at oon Of honest myrth lete be thy daliaunce Swere none othes speke no rybawdrye The best mossell haue this in remembraunce Hole to thy self allewey do not applye Parte with thy felawe for that is curtesye Lade not thy trenchour with many remissailles And fro blaknes allewey kepe thy naylles Of curtosye also agayn the lawe With sown̄ dishonest for to do offence Of olde surfettis atwyte not thy felawe Toward thy souerain haue alway thy adutence Pleye not with thy knyf take hede to my sentence At mete and at souper kepe the still & softe Eke to and fro meue not thy fote to ofte Droppe not thy breste with sawce ne potage Brynge no knyues vnscowred to the table Fyl not thy spone leste in the cariage Hit goo be syde whiche were not comendable Be quyk and redy meke and seruisable Well awaytyng to fulfille anon What thy souerayn commaundeth the to doon In childes warre now mirth & now debate In their quarell is no grete violence Now playe . now wepyng . selde in one estate To their playntes gyue no grete audience A rodde reformeth alle their insolence In their corage no rancour doth abyde Who spareth the rodde al vertu set a syde Go litill bylle bareyn of eloquence Pray yong children that the shal see or rede Though thou be not compendious of sentence Of the clawses for to take hede Whiche to alle vertue shal thy yongth lede Of the wrytyng though ther be no date Yf ought be amys put the faute in lidgate . Explicit .
Aryse erly Serue god deuoutly The world besily Goo thy way sadly Answere demurely Go to thy mete appetently And aryse temp●ratly And to thy souper soberly And to thy b●d merily And be there ●o●ondly And slepe sewrly . Explicit .
. An holy Salue regina in englissh . ●Alue with all obeisance to god in humblesse Regina to regne euyr more in blysse Mater to crist as we byleue expresse Misericordie / vnto alle wrecchisse Vita to quyken to helpe leall and lisse Dulcedo of most plesant beaute And we saye this londe thy dowayr is And therfore we synge / et spes nram salue Ad te most meke & most beingne virgine Clamamns lowde with voys tymerous Exules made / by false frawde serpentyne Filij freyll carefull and dolorous Eue / therfore oure lyf laboryous Ad te best mene to our lord god and man Suspiramus here in this see trobelous Gementes as sorofully as we can Et flentes ofte with bitter teris smert In hac doleful / payneful and lamentable Lacrimarum wonding the mortal herte Valle restles greuouse and changeable Eya ergo mayden most amyable Aduocata nostra oure mediatrice Illos tuos bryghtest and confortable Misericordes ocules ful of Ioye of paradyce Ad nos fletyng in this see of torment Conuerte / now of thy souerayn pyte Et ihesum oure lorde prince omnipotent Benedictum full of most hye bounte Fructum of lyf and riche benygnyte Ventris tui most ewrous creature Nobis post hoc exilium ostende To oure eterne grettest ioye and plesure O clemens ful of mercyful rychesse O pia ful of riche compassion O dulcis ful of helpe in eche distresse Virgo fairest waye to saluation Maria floure of swettest meditacian Salue with alle our most lowly seruyse Mater of lyf and eterne creacion Salue euer as feir as we can suffyse . Amen .
Wytte hath wonder and kynde ne can How mayden is moder and god is man Leue thyn askyng and beleue that wonder For myght hath maistry & skyll goth vnder . Deo laus &c .
Who so of welthe taketh no hede He shal fynde faute in tyme of nede This world is mutable thus seith sage Ther fore gadre in tyme er thou falle in age In welthe beware of woo what so the happis And here the euen for drede of after clappis Fortune is variant ay tornyng her whele He is wyse that is ware or he harme fele Better is to suffre and fortune tabyde Than hastely to clymbe and sodenly to slyde Knowe er thou knytte & than thou maist slake Yf thou knyt er thou knowe than it is to late