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The Babees' Book: Medieval Manners for the Young: Done Into Modern English · Frederick James Furnivall — chapter 64 of 65 · ~86 words · public domain

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Footnote 335:

Ed. 1577, or.

Footnote 336:

See note.

Footnote 337:

The sense is apparently: soil ... your wristband.

Footnote 338:

Drink. Later editions have drunkenness.

Footnote 339:

Four pints of ale.

Footnote 340:

Ed. 1577.

Footnote 341:

Void = cast-off; avoid = empty; voider = receptacle to take cast-off morsels.

Footnote 342:

Annul, i.e., object to it.

Footnote 343:

Unpleasant.

Footnote 344:

Scratch.

Footnote 345:

Gnaw.

Footnote 346:

See note.

Footnote 347:

Your square of trencher-bread, together with the scraps upon it.

Footnote 348:

Outrageous.

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