  1.Since listed as Early English Meals and Manners. 2.“The Book of the Polite Man, teaching manners for men, especially for boys, as a supplement to those which were omitted by the most moral Cato.” 3.Described and in part translated in an appendix to Queene Elizabethes Achademy. 4.Lust, i.e., pleasure. 5.Reached. 6.Mirth. 7.So Ascham: “It is pity, that commonly more care is had, yea, and that among very wise men, to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.” 9.The Grammar Schoole. 1612. 10.But Erasmus was a Dutchman. Oddly enough, about a century later, Pepys alludes to “these dirty Dutch fellows.” 13.Ask. Still used in Scotland. 14.Behave. 16.Chatter. 17.Fruitful, i.e., useful. 18.Brief and to the point. 19.Decorously. 22.Blame. 23.Bourd = jest. 24.Dreadful = full of dread. 26.“Superior,” i.e., haughty. 27.Jealousy. 28.Ostentatious. 29.Chattering. 30.Joke. 31.Particular. 32.Obstinate. 33.In the confidence of. 34.Please. 35.Literally, be lewd (ignorant). 36.Of Politeness. 37.Bow. 38.Four lines omitted. 39.Worthy. 40.Be cast down. 42.Hinder. 43.Reach out. 44.Defile. 45.Chattering. 46.Honour. 49.Make known. 50.Reward. 52.Deprive. 54.Enclosed. 55.Ready. 57.Churls. 58.Seemly. 59.Belch. 60.Churl; German, kerl, French, carle. 61.Loud; literally, strong. 65.Know. 68.Ready, anxious. 69.Jackdaw. 71.The Boy Standing at the Table. 73.Making faces. 74.With mouth full of food. 75.Stained with food. 76.Offences. 77.Harl. MS., meek. 78.Revengeful. 79.Harl. MS., forgiving. 80.Harl. MS., With an apple the parties be made at one. 81.Heart. 83.Harleian MS., sauce. 86.Dear. 89.Quiet his wrath. 90.Giddy girl. 91.Shake or shrug. 94.Coarse brown stuff, homespun, frieze. 95.A-going. 97.A giggling girl, expressively spelled. 98.Curtly. 99.Another reason. 100.Gift. 101.Quickly. 102.Done betimes. 105.Offer. 106.Moderate means. 108.Scold. 109.Creature. 110.Truth, literally. 111.In spite of yourself. 112.Judge. 113.Strife. 114.Move house (Scotch still). 115.Buried. 116.Graves. 119.Lack of hope, i.e., despair. 120.Evil—help. 121.Ill-bred. 127.A cupboard in which were kept the jugs (ewers) and basins used in washing, before and after meals. 130.Bread-carrier, apparently a sort of tray, lintheum panarium, an ell long and a yard wide. 131.Text: glowting. 134.Used up. 135.Duty. 136.Dwelling. 138.Sideboard is perhaps the nearest equivalent. 141.Tunic or shirt, lit. petticoat. 142.Short stockings, that covered the feet, and reached to the ankle, just above the shoe (avant-pied). 143.Cap or cape to wear in the house. 144.A kind of silk. 145.Scarlet cloth. 146.Crimson cloth. 148.Sheet at the head of the bed. 149.First, carpets; second, tapestries. The Book of Courtesy has tapetis, Fr. tapis. 153.Head of a monastic order for a province. 154.Chief clerk (ecclesiastical office). 155.Compare Chaucer’s Pardoner in his Prologue. 156.Nurrieris; Latin, nutricarii? 159.Property, wealth. 160.Worthy of reverence. 164.Text, gardevyan; Fr. gardeviande. 165.Fealty. 167.Hear. 168.Give. 169.Afterwards. 170.Courteous. 171.Upper deal, i.e., part. 173.Altogether. 175.Done for. 176.Turn out? 177.Table-cloth. 178.Polite. 180.[First]? 182.So in text. 183.Last of all. 184.Share. 185.Flattery. 186.On a pilgrimage. 187.Way. 188.Promised. 191.Mad. 193.Wicked man. 194.Destroy. 195.Strife. 196.In straits. 198.Fellow. 200.Text: hethyng, scorn. 202.Glade. 203.Side by side. 205.Text: menskly, i.e., in its original sense, like a human being. 207.Fair words. 208.Falsified. 210.Cast about. 211.Silly fool. 212.Fight for. Text: with win, which may mean “with pleasure.” 213.A section of a poem, commonly of a ballad. 214.Of the Officers in Lords’ Halls. 215.Fr. mestiers. 216.Thick. 217.Of a yard or ell. 218.Of the Porter. 221.Proclamation. 222.Of the Marshal of the Hall. 223.Burn. 224.February 2nd. 225.For how long Squires shall have Liveries, and Fire Burn in Hall. 227.Shere-Thursday, i.e., Thursday before Easter. 228.Of the Butler, Panter and Cooks as Servants to him (the marshal). 229.More. 231.Quickly. 232.Of the Butler’s Office. 233.Without being compelled. 235.Text: tent (Scotch). 236.Of the Usher and his Servants. 238.Of the Grooms’ Office. 239.Text: wyn, joy. 240.Wraps or fastens. 241.Text: knop. 243.tapets—(1) carpets, (2) hangings. 244.Scandinavian, stor, great. 245.Text: clof, Dr. Furnivall conjectures “cloth.” 246.Heater. 247.Big candles, Paris candles. 249.Turn back, or fold. 250.Text: tortes, i.e. taper. 251.Manchet, white bread. 252.Cheat-bread, of whole meal. 253.A cake or lump, perhaps shaped especially to serve as a night-light. 254.Probably, crust of soot. 255.Scotch, fastens, secures. 256.A spike on which a candle was thrust instead of being placed in a socket. 258.Of the Steward. 260.Of the Controller. 261.So much received. 262.So much spent. 263.Unaccountable, i.e. not responsible to a higher officer(?) 265.Of the Clerk of the Kitchen. 266.Book. 267.Of the Chancellor. 268.Of the Treasurer. 269.Fines. 270.Park-keeper. 271.Of the Receiver of Rents. 272.Rents. 273.Receipt. 274.Of the Avener. The office is explained. 275.As much as a pitchfork could cast. 276.Bar before the hayrack. 277.Of the Baker. 278.Bread of finely sifted flour. 279.Wholemeal bread. 280.Of the Huntsman and his Dogs. 281.Handfuls, lit., throws. 282.Keeper of greyhounds. 283.Profit in kind. 284.Of the Ewerer. 285.“Who ought to wash hands, and in whose houses.” 287.Scotch, for broad. 288.Of the Panter. 289.In its place. 290.Concerning the Lord’s Knives. 291.Wholemeal loaf. 292.Covering, towel. 293.Text: shiver, i.e., sliver. 294.Text: quere. 295.None the less. 296.Empties. 297.Of the Almoner. 298.Upper part. 299.Of the Sewer. Literally, food-bearer. 300.Cut bread. 301.Line unfinished. 302.Cut. 304.Less. 305.Simply. 307.Great. 308.Of the Chandler. 309.Paris, i.e., large candles. 312.Whiner. 313.Tricks. 314.Doff. 315.Ill-bred. 318.Know. 319.Nature. 321.According to thy station. 322.Soberly. 323.Praise (1550), prease (1568, 1577). 324.Defile. 325.Soberly. 326.Don’t cross thy fellow. 327.Tricks. 328.Jest. 329.The sweat may be due to disease. 330.Thou dost sin against moderation. 331.Stolen. 332.Smoke; here, breath. 333.Gas. 335.Ed. 1577, or. 337.The sense is apparently: soil ... your wristband. 338.Drink. Later editions have drunkenness. 339.Four pints of ale. 340.Ed. 1577. 341.Void = cast-off; avoid = empty; voider = receptacle to take cast-off morsels. 342.Annul, i.e., object to it. 343.Unpleasant. 344.Scratch. 345.Gnaw. 347.Your square of trencher-bread, together with the scraps upon it. 348.Outrageous. 349.Use. 350.Smoothly. 351.Blamed. 356.Caterwauling. 359.Stammering.
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