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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

  • Omits Russell’s stanza, l. 305-8, about ‘these cuttid galauntes with their codware.’

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • [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

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  • 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

  • Hear that, Jethro?

    May 20, 2013