Directions for behaviour at table:--

Het _zoud_ neémt men met You must take the _salt_

het _punt_ van het mes, with the _point_ of

het welk men aen zyn your knife, after

_brood_ moet afvaegen. having wiped it on your

_bread_.

Instead of a literal translation we have given the meaning, marking with

Italics a few words which are the most striking in the two languages.

But besides those which we have marked, other similarities, such as

_welk_, “whilk or which,” will be detected in this and the following

specimen:--

_Daer is niets zoo _There is nought so

ongemanierd_ dan _iet_ unmannered_ as to take

van de schotel te _aught_ from the dish

neémen met het _forket with the _fork_

waer_ men _mede eét_. wherewith you eat, or,

literally, “_where man_

with _eats_.”

The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 35, October 20, 1832 · 第 5 / 16 题