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Author: Andrew Boorde (c. 1490-1549)

Text type: Verse

Date of composition: 1547

Editions: 1547, 1548, 1555, 1562, 1814, 1870, 1893, 1906, 1975, 1979, 1992

Source text:

Boorde, Andrew. 1870 [1547]. “Ich am a Cornishe Man”. The Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, the whyche dothe teache a man to speake parte of all maner of languages, and to know the usage and fashion of all maner of countreys. And for to know the moste parte of all maner of coynes of money, the whych is currant in every region. Made by Andrew Borde, of Physycke Doctor. Dedycated to the right honorable and gracious lady Mary daughter of our soverayne Lorde Kyng Henry the eyght . F. J. Furnivall. Ed. Early English Text Society. E. S. 10. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner: 122-123.

e-text:

           Access and transcription: September 2004

           Format: MS Word   Pdf

           Number of words: 247

            Dialect represented: Cornwall

            Produced by   María F. García-Bermejo Giner

Andrew Boorde

(c. 1490-1549)