From Urbanitatis, or Of Politeness: |
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Hold your cap, forbear to don,
Till you're told to put it on.
Look in your mouth there be no meat,
When you begin to drink or speak.
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Wisdom from The Book of Courtesy: |
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Another courtesy I will thee teach:
Thy father and mother with mild speech
To worship and serve with all thy might,
That thou dwell the longer in earthly light.
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Manners from The Babees' Book: |
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Take no seat, but be ready to stand
until you are bidden to sit down.
Keep your hands and feet at rest;
do not claw your flesh or lean against a post,
in the presence of your lord, or
handle anything belonging to the house.
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Courtesy
at table from The Little Children's Little Book: |
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Look thy hands be washed clean,
That no filth on thy nails be seen.
Take thou no meat till grace be said
And till thou see all things arrayed.Pick not thy teeth with thy knife.
In no company begin thou strife. Nor spit thou not over the table,
Nor thereupon--that is nothing able.
Lay not thy elbow nor thy fist
Upon the table whiles thou eat'st. |
