[Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes a few characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, including ȝ (yogh) œ (oe ligature) There are also a few lines of Greek, and some rarer characters: ſ (long s, used in one short selection) ł (l with bar, also used only in one selection) m̅ (m with overline, used only in the Boke of Nurture) If any of these characters do not display properly, or if the quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1 version of the file instead. This very long book has been separated into independent units, set off by triple rows of asterisks: [1] Early English Text Society (information and list of titles) [2] Introductory pages with full table of contents [3] General Preface (“Forewords”) [4] Preface to Russell, _Boke of Nurture_ [5] Collations and Corrigenda (see beginning of “Corrigenda” for details of corrections) [6] John Russell’s _Boke of Nurture_ with detailed table of contents [7] Notes to _Boke of Nurture_ (longer linenotes, printed as a separate section in original text) [8] Lawrens Andrewe on Fish [9] “Illustrative Extracts” (titles listed in Table of Contents) and Recipes [10] _Boke of Keruynge_ and _Boke of Curtasye_, with Notes [11] _Booke of Demeanor_ and following shorter selections [12] _The Babees Book_ and following shorter selections [13] Parallel texts of _The Little Children’s Boke_ and _Stans Puer ad Mensam_ [14] General Index (excluding Postscript) [15] Postscript “added after the Index had been printed” [16] Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber: editor’s sidenotes can be read as a condensed version of full text) Each segment has its own footnotes and errata lists. Readers may choose to divide them into separate files. The following notes on text format apply to all texts and will not be repeated in full. _Italics and other text markings:_ Italicized letters within words, representing expanded abbreviations, are shown in the e-text with braces (“curly brackets”): co{n}nyng{e}. Readers who find this added information distracting may globally delete all braces; they are not used for any other purpose. Whole-word italics are shown in the usual way with _lines_. Superscripts are shown with ^, and boldface or blackletter type with +marks+. _Page Layout:_ In the original book, each text page contained several types of secondary material printed in all four margins. The HTML version of this e-text offers a closer approximation of the original appearance.