DEDICATED TO THE HISTORIAN OF "THE EARLY & MIDDLE AGES OF ENGLAND,' Charles H. Pearson, Esq., M.J., FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLege, oxford, LATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT IN ADMIRATION OF HIS LEARNING AND IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS HELP, BY THE EDITOR. PREFACE TO RHODES'S BOKE OF nurture, (and herein of the status, food, and pay, of Gentlemen of the King's Chapel.) PART I. EARLY ENGLISH POEMS AND TREATISES. The Babees Book, (or a 'lytyl Reporte' of how Young People should Dietarium (in Latin, on odd pages to p. 59) (Contents thereof, inserted after p. 264; Notes thereon, p. 287. Note on the first edition of 1508, p. cxxi.) The Booke of Demeanor (from the Schoole of Vertue by Richard Weste) THE BOKE OF CURTASYE (from the Sloane MS. 1986, ab. 1460 a.d.) Contents thereof, inserted after p. 298. Bp. Grossetest's Household Statutes (from the Sloane MS. 1986) Stanzas and Couplets of Counsel (from the Rawlinson MS. C. 86) |