Courtesy; England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources
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.
Surplusage, l. 518, rest, remainder.
Syttyng, l. 302, fit, suitable. 'Syttyng or convenyent--m. _asseant ...
aduenant_.' Palsgrave.
Table, how to wait at, l. 113.
Tacches, l. 176, tache, l. 198; Fr. _tache_, a spot, staine, blemish.
Cot.
Taches, H., teches, O., l. 453, manners.
Teeth, don't pick 'em with your knife, l. 248.
Terre, l. 67; _tar_, to set on, provoke; O. Fr. _atarier_. They have
_terrid_ thee to ire. Wiclif, Psalms. Sc. _tirr_, to snarl; quarrelsome,
crabbed. Wedgwood.
Thewed, l. 20, mannered.
Towel, don't soil it, l. 263, 266.
Traverse, l. 242, change from side to side.
Trencher; keep yours clean, l. 269.
Trety, l. 529, treatise.
True as the gospel, l. 503.
Weyne, l. 166, A.S. _wanian_, to diminish, take away.
Wind, break not, up or down, l. 202.
Wise man, the; his marks of a youth likely to be had, l. 104;--his
counsel as to speaking, l. 137, 147.
Women, always take good heed to them, l. 506.
Wyndlese, l. 471, windlass.
Yanglers, l. 207, chatterers.
Ydellye, l. 315, idly.
Ynympariable, l. 380, unequalled, L. _par_, Fr. _pareil_, equal, like.
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