Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Unknown
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Avise you well whan ye take your_e_ disporte, Honest games that ye haunte and vse, And suche as ben of violente reporte, 297 I counsell you, my childe, that ye refuse; For trustith well ye shall nout you excuse From berchely fest, yef I may you aspie Playng at[1] eny game of rebaudie. 301 [Sidenote 1: MS. or.] [44] Itt is to A goodly childe well syttyng, To vse disportis of myrth and plesaunce, To harpe and lute, or lustely to syng, 304 And in the pres ryght manerly to daunce; When men se A childe of suche gouernaunce, They seyn, 'gladde may this [childes] frendis be To haue a sone soo manerly as he.' 308 [Sidenote: _Hill's Text._] ΒΆ But beware, my child, also of rehersayle Off maters whiche be at _th_e table meved: 289 It grewet[=h][1] ofte, & dot[=h] me_n_ dysavayle; [Sidenote 1: The line is over the _th_.] ffull[e] many a ma_n_ _th_at vyce hathe myscheved; Off evyll[e] thynke sayd, ys worse co_n_tryved; 292 |
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