Burnysshe no bones / with your teth / beware [Sidenote: Don't burnish bones with your teeth.] Suche houndis tacches / falle of vncurtesye But with your knyf / make the bones bare 234 Handle your mete / so wel and so clenly [Sidenote: Handle your food cleanly,] That ye offende not the company Where ye be sette / as ferfort[=h] as ye can Reme_m_bryng wel / that manners make ma[=n]. 238 [Sidenote: for Manners make Man.] [35] And_e_ whan that / ye ete your mete small_e_ With open mout[=h] / beware ye not ete [Sidenote: Eat with your lips closed] But loke your lippea / be closed as a wall_e_ 241 Whan to and_e_ fro / ye trauerse your mete Kepe you so cloos / that men haue no co_n_seite To say of you / ony langage or vilonye Bicause ye ete your mete / vnmanerly 245 * * * * * THE ORIEL TEXT. [36] Be ware, my child, of laughing ou_er_ mesure, Ye shall not Also at the borde your_e_ naylis pare, Ne pike not your_e_ teth wyth your_e_ knyff, I you ensure, Ete at your_e_ messe, and odir folkes spare; 249 A glottou_n_ can but make dissches bare, And of Inough he taketh neu_er_ hede, He fedith for lust more than[1] he doth for nede. [Sidenote 1: MS. that.] [37] And whan the borde is then [as] of s_er_uice, 253 Not replenyshide wyth gret diuercite, Of mete and drincke good chere may than suffice, Hit is A signe of gret humanite, 256 Wyth gladsom chere than fulsom for to be; The poet seyth howe that the poure borde Men may encrese wyth cherefull wille and worde. [38] And o thing, my childe, I warne you vndirstonde, Specially for your_e_ owne honeste, In the water wasschith so clene your_e_ hande, 262 That your_e_ towell neuer ensoyled be So foule that hit be lothely vnto se; Wasschith wyth watir_e_ till your_e_ handis be clene, And in your_e_ clothe ther shall no spotte be sene. [Sidenote: _Hill's Text._] ¶ Beware, my chyld, of laughynge ou_er_ mesure; Ne at _th_e borde ye shall[e] no nayles pare, Ne pyke yo_u_r teth w_i_t__h knyf, I you ensure. 248 Ete at yo_u_r messe, & other_e_ folk_i_s spare; A gloton ca_n_ but make _th_e bonys bare, & of ynowgh he takyth never_e_ hede, he ffedyth more for lust than for nede. 252 ¶ And wha_n_ _th_e borde ys thyn as of s_er_vyce, Nowght replenysshed w_i_t_h_ gret dyversite of mete & drynke, gud chere may tha_n_ suffice, w_i_t_h_ honest talkyng; & also owght ye 256 w_i_t_h_ gladsu_m_ chere the_n_ fulsome for to be: The poete seyth how _tha_t 'a powre borde Me_n_ may enryche w_i_t_h_ cherfull[e] will[e] & worde.' 259