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Don’t pick your teeth, cast stinking breath on your lord, fire your stern guns, or expose your codware before your master.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Omits Russell’s stanza, l. 305-8, about ‘these cuttid galauntes with their codware.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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[Sidenote: Don’t pick your teeth, cast stinking breath on your lord, fire your stern guns, or expose your codware before your master.]
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
qroqqa commented on the word codware
Put not youre handes in youre hosen youre codware for to clawe.
—wise advice; source given by the OED as:
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 135
May 20, 2013
bilby commented on the word codware
Hear that, Jethro?
May 20, 2013