those present.

"2. In the presence of others, sing not to yourself with a
humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet.

"3. Speak not when others speak, sit not when others stand,
speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others
stop.

"4. Turn not your back to others, especially in speaking; jog
not the table or desk on which another reads or writes; lean
not on any one.

"5. Be not a flatterer; neither play with any one that delights
not to be played with.

"6. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though
he were your enemy.

"7. It is good manners to prefer them to whom we speak before
ourselves, especially if they be above us; with whom in no sort
ought we to begin.

"8. Strive not with your superiors in an argument, but always
submit your judgment to others with modesty.

"9. Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself
professes; for it is immodest and presumptuous.

"10. When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well,
blame not him that did it.

"11. Before you advise or find fault with any one, consider
whether it ought to be in public or in private, presently or
at some other time, in what terms to do it; and, in reproving,
show no signs of anger, but do it with sweetness and mildness.

"12. Take all advice thankfully, in what time or place soever
given; but afterwards, not being blamable, take a time or place
convenient to let him know it that gave it.

"13. Mock not in jest at any thing of importance: if you
deliver any thing witty and pleasant, abstain from laughing
thereat yourself.

"14. Wherein you reprove another, be unblamable yourself; for
example is better than precept.

"15. Use no reproachful language against any one; neither curse
nor revile.

"16. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the injury of
any.

"17. In your apparel, be modest, and endeavor to accommodate
yourself to nature, rather than to procure admiration; keep to
the fashion of your equals, such as are civil and orderly, with
respect to time and places.

"18. Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see
if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your
pantaloons sit neatly, and clothes handsomely.

"19. Associate