MS. Cotton Caligula, A ii, fol. 88, 1446-60. Author unknown. Apparently
first printed by Dr. Furnivall. The Duke of Norfolk, grandfather of Anne
Boleyn and Katherine Howard, was among the young henchmen at the court
of Edward IV., brought up on “the booke of urbanitie.”
p. 13. _Good manners_, &c. William of Wykeham was more curt in his motto
for Winchester College: “Manners makyth man.”
p. 14. _Close your hand_, &c., _i.e._, one hand over the over, to keep a
secret.
p. 14. _Had I wist._ Proverbial. See notes on _The Good Wife_, p. 186,
below.
p. 15. _Let your right shoulder_, &c., _i.e._, keep a step behind him to
the left.