Here may a young man see how he should speak subtly in court
By: translated from the thirteenth or fourteenth century manuscript by Helen M. Briggs ; with a foreword by Hilary Jenkinson
Contributors: Sweet & Maxwell
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell
Published: 1936
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Work titles: Cy poet un juvenes homme ver coment il deyt sotylement parler en court. English
Notes: "This curious little formulary in dialogue ... [is] at the beginning of a volume recently acquired by Messrs. Sweet and Maxwell at a sale of mss. from the Phillipps collection ... It is written in French ... Early in the history of the Selden Society Maitland printed [in "The court baron," 1891, v. 4 of the Society's publications] another version of it, differently arranged, from a ms. in the Cambridge University Library and was able to correct this from three other versions in the British Museum"--Foreword.

"The ms. begins with instructions to a young man how to plead in court, headed 'Cy poet vn juuenes homme ver coment il deyt sotylement parler en court.'"