A gentle squire would gladly entertain <br />Into his house some trencher chapelain; <br />Some willing man that might instruct his sons, <br />And that would stand to good conditions. <br />First, that he lie upon the truckle-bed <br />Whiles his young master lieth o'er his head. <br />Second that he do on no default <br />Ever presume to sit above the salt. <br />Third that he never change his trencher twice. <br />Fourth that he use all common courtesies: <br />Sit bare at meals and one half rise and wait. <br />Last, that he never his young master beat, <br />But he must ask his mother to define, <br />How many jerks she would his breech should line. <br />All these observed, he could contented be, <br />To give five marks and winter livery.<br /><br />Joseph Hall<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-domestic-tudor-s-position/
