p. 101, 1. 695-6. Some be lyberal of theyr tonges, counsel they can not bynde 700. . . . gyue no sentens tyl truth by tryed out p. 102. 703-4. In my mynde I holde it best, thy counsell neuer bewray 707-14. When counsel is closed in thy brest, vttraunce wyl the rue It is good to kepe close counsel, except sufficyent probacyon A knot vnknyt is easy to slack, ye people are ful of decepcion 1. 713. Take hede to whom yu brekest thy mynde, onely for flattery 727-8. Better is a trewe rebuke of thy fo, then a fals prayse of thy frende 731-2. Put apart al sad fantases, & shew them gentyl familyaryte 739-10. A smal reward pleseth a frend, empty fystes can not hawkes reclayme p. 103. 1. 755-6. yf they be gentyll and pleased, men wyll report them kynde 758. . . . but gently be contented 761-4. A man controllyng & yl to please, & in payment nothyng lyberal It commeth nothynge of gentylnesse, to be prodygall 769-72. Regard thy honesty in euery company, where tyme is spent Conuay nothyng therof to thy self / so men wyll not be content 775-6. Vse gentyll pastyme / then wyll men commende thy myrth p. 101. after Go no further then behoueth the /lest thou haue blame 1.784 insert In truste is treason, be ruled by reason / euer fle from shame 787-8. A tale well knowen may be well tolde the (trueth tryed out) 791-6. I holde it of this matter / beste for to make an ende p. 105-7. p. 108. He that wyll not for wysdome seke / is not his owne frende The Prose Part of the Rule of Honest Liuing is omitted. 1. 14. Hewe Rodes one of the kynges chapell. Imprynted at London in paules chyrchyarde by Thomas Petyt. A few notes to fill up a page and a quarter. Words of villany, p. 64. Loose talk and swearing. From Roberde of Brunne downwards, and before him long, no doubt, the English habit of swearing has been cause of sharp reproof. R. Brunne rebukes the gentlemen of his time for it : Þys gentyl men, þys gettours, Wyp fals obys ny3t and day. leue 3oure But Зе fals sweryng, 30ure vnkynde vpbreydyng, But 3e amende 30u ar 3e deye; "in all the worlde, there is not suche odyble swear ynge as is vsed in Englande, specyally amonges youth and chyldren, whiche is a detestable thynge to here it, and no man doth go aboute to punysshe it." Regyment, fol. D .ij. back. In Edward the Fourth's Court the fine for swearing was that the offender should have " no wyne at the meles." H. Ord., p. 68. с Page 66, 1. 11. House of office. Compare And of all thynges let the butterye, the celler, the kytchyn, the larder house, with all other houses of offyces be kepte cleane. Andrew Borde. Regyment. fol. B. iv. Tooth pick, p. 78, 1. 245-8. When were tooth-picks introduced into England? The Anglo-Saxons had them, seemingly. Mr Cockayne translates do medmicel on pa eagan mid top gare (Leechdoms, ii. 36) by "Introduce a small quantity [of the eye-salve] into the eyes with a tooth-pick." But the gar may have been a surgical tooth-instrument, a scraper, and not a substitute at dinner for Rodes's stick. Withals, 1556, gives a tothe picker, dentiscalpium.' Thierry, in 1564-(Estienne 1539 and -49 re-edited: Way) has 'Vn curedent, Dentiscalpium.' Levins in 1570 gives a Pike for the eares, teeth &c., scalprum." Manipulum, Pref. p. vi. ed. 1866; and then come all the authorities collected by Nares, who says: Tooth-picks appear to have been first brought into use in Italy; whence the traveller who had visited that country, particularly wished to exhibit that symbol of gentility. 66 Now your traueller, Hee and his tooth-picke at my worship's messe." King John, i. 1. The equipment of a fine gentleman is thus described by Massinger: "I have all that's requisite To the making up of a signior: my spruce ruff, My hooded cloak, long stocking, and paned hose, To convey an olive neatly to my mouth." The Great Duke of Florence, Act iii. (p. 179, col. 2. ed. 1839). They were even worn at one time as an ornament in the hat. "Answer the time of request, Virginitie like an olde Courtier, weares her cap out of fashion, richly suted, but vnsuteable; iust like the brooch & the tooth-pick, which were not now." All's Well that Ends Well, i. 1. See also Nares's quotations under picktooth, and his Editors' extract from the Nomenclator (? ed. 1585, not that of 1548 noticed in the Promptorium), Dentiscalpium. . . Curedent. A tooth-scraper or tooth-rake. Cotgrave in 1611 has Cure-dent, A tooth-picke', and Harrington, 1624, says 'cleanse the teeth either with Iuory or a Harts horne, or some picker of pure siluer or gold,' The Boke of Nurture Folowyng Englondis gisę, BY ME John Russell, SUM TYME SERUANDE WITH DUKE VMFREY OF GLOWCETUR, A PRYNCE FULLE ROYALLE, WITH WHOM VSCHERE IN CHAMBUR WAS Y, AND MERSHALLE ALSO IN HALLE. Edited from the Harleian MS. 4011 in the British Museum BY FREDERICK J. FURNIVALL, M.A., TRIN. HALL. CAMB.; MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE PHILOLOGICAL AND EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETIES; LOVER OF OLD BOOKS. |