This statement may speedily be verified by a reference to the reprinted Kendal “Boke of Recorde.”

In this way we find many good things, and banish the rest; we attempt to "boke something new," and revive others.

In the Boke of Curtesye it is blamed as a mark of bad breeding to play with the cats and dogs while seated at table.

And in the begynning is set a briefe summe of all the principall matters spoken of in the boke.