Early English Meals and Manners

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FOREWORDS."The naturall malster Aristotell saith that euery body be the course of nature is cnclyned to here & se all that refressheth & quickeaeth the spretys of man1 / whcrfor I haue thus in this boke folowingo2 " gathered together divers treatises touching the Manners & Meals of Englishmen in former days, & have added therto divers figures of men of old, at meat & in bed,3 to the end that, to my follows hero & to come, the homo life of their forefathers may be somewhat more plain, & their own minds somewhat rejoiced.The treatises here collected consist of a main one-John Husscll's Boke of Nurture, to which I have written a separate preface4-extracts and short books illustrating Russell, like the Bookc of Demeanor and Boke of Curtasy, and certain shorter pooms addressed partly to those whom Cotgrave calls " Enfans de famille, Yonkers of account, youthes1 Tho first sentence of Aristotle's Metaphysics is ' All men by nature are actuated by the desire of knowledge.' Mr SkTable of Contents CONTENTS; PAGB; FOREWORDS, OR GENERAL PREFACE i; Education in Early England iv; Cleanliness, or Dirt, of Men, Houses, &c lxiii; Notice of the separate Poems up to Russell lxviii; preface to russell's boke of nurture, and the Poems and; Treatises following it (except those in the Postscript) lxix; collations and corrections Xcii; john russell's boke op nurture 1; (Contents thereof, inserted after title ; Notes thereon, p 84 Lawrens Andrewe on Eish, p 113); Wilyam Bulleyn on Boxyng and Neckeweede 124; Andrew Borde on Sleep, llising, and Dress 128; William Vaughan's Eifteen Directions to preserve Health 133; The Dyet for every Day (from Sir John Harington's Schoole of Salerne) 138; On Rising, Diet, and Going to Bed (from the same) 140; Recipes (for Eritters, Jussell, and Mawmeny) 145; Recipes (for Hares and Conies in Civeye, and for Doucettes) 146; wynkyn de worde's
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