Adults went on about table manners five hundred years ago just as they do now. Perhaps there’s something in it after all!
‘Whether you spit near or far, hold your hand before your mouth to hide it.’ ‘Do not scratch yourself at the table nor wipe your nose or nostrils.’ ‘Thou shalt not laugh nor speak nothing, while thy mouth be full of meat or drink, nor sup thou with great sounding’. ‘If you see your lord drinking, keep silence, without loud laughter, chattering, whispering, joking or other insolence.’ ‘Look ye be not caught leaning on the table.’ ‘Keep from picking your nose, your teeth, your nails at mealtime.’ |
Some things never change!
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