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  • [12] _The Babees Book_ and following shorter selections

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • The persons to whom the last poems of the present collection are addressed, the yonge Babees, whom {e} bloode Royall {e}

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Its specialty is its attributing so high birth to the Bele Babees whom it addresses, and its appeal to Lady Facetia to help its writer.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • [Sidenote: To know and practise virtues is the most profitable thing in the world.] ¶ But, O yonge Babees, whom {e} bloode Royall {e}

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • "The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: done into Modern English from Dr. Furnivall's Texts by Edith Rickert."

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006

  • FREDERICK J. FURNIVA.L, M.A. Editor of 'The Babees Book, Etc.'

    Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • This code of domestic discipline for an Elizabethan establishment comprises the observance of decorum and duty at table, and is at least as valuable and curious as those metrical canons and precepts which form the volume (Babees’ Book) edited for the Early English Text Society, etc.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • Early English books on table manners, such as "The Babees Boke" and "The

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Hath {e} en {ou} rmyd, the “Bele Babees” and “swete Children,” may be likened to the “young gentylmen, Henxmen, -- VI Enfauntes, or more, as it shall please the

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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