The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, A Compenduous Regyment or A Dyetary of Helth

404 Pages·1870·21.957 MB·English

by  Andrew Borde (Andrewe Boorde), Frederick J. Furnivall (ed.)

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EDITED, WITH A LIFE OF ANDREW BOORDE, AXD LARGE EXTRACTS FROM HIS
BREVYARY, BY
F. J. FURNIVALL, M.A., Tein. Hall, Camb.,
EDITOR OF TUEBABEESBOOK, &c.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY,
BY N. TRTTBNEK & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
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BARON HALKETT)
OF GREAT FOSTERS, NEAR EGHAM,
LATE OF THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS, ETC. ETC.
My
dear Colonel,
You are our most widely-travelled friend
here. Your steps have wandered far beyond Boorde's range. Asia,
North and South, Africa, North and South too, the Indies, and
America,have seen you the Crimeahasbeen stainedbyyour blood
; ;
and there are few Courts and cities in Europe where you have not
been. I may therefore well dedicate to you Boorde's records of his
travels, more than 300 years ago, in las Introduction ofKnowledge.
On the Elizabethan porch ofyour fineoldTudorhouseisthe date
of 1578, while Anne Boleyn's badge is the centre ornament of your
dining-room ceiling, and Tudor badges are about it. I may therefore
well dedicate to you Boorde's Dyetary of 1542, which starts with
directions that may have been studied by the builder of your own
house, or the early dwellers in it. As it was once my Father's too,
and has been the sceneofmanya happyvisitatdifferent times ofmy
life, I like to mix the thought ofthe old housewith my old author,
Andrew Boorde, and to fancy that he'd have enjoyed ordering where
the moat was to be, the stables, and all the belongings, and lecturing
the owner as to how to manage house and servants, wife and child,
pocket and body.
That health and happiness may long be the lot of you and the
charming sharer of your name, whose taste has beautified the old
house that you have together so admirably restored, is the hope of
Yours very sincerely,
F. J. FUIIXIVALL.
Walnut Tree Cottage, Egham,
August 3, 1870.