Superfluous Compliments and all Affectation of Ceremony are to be avoided, yet where due they are not to be Neglected.

Turn not your Back to others especially in Speaking, Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any one.

Be not Tedious in Discourse or in reading unless you find the Company pleased therewith.

Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring out your Words too hastily but orderly & distinctly.

It is good Manners to prefer them to whom we Speak before ourselves especially if they be above us with whom in no Sort we ought to begin.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

Be not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret.

In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physician if you be not Knowing therein.

In writing or Speaking, give to every Person his due Title According to his Degree & the Custom of the Place.

Do not laugh too loud or too much at any Public Spectacle.

If any one come to Speak to you while you are Sitting Stand up though he be your Inferior, and when you Present Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

A Man ought not to value himself of his Achievements, or rare Qualities of wit; much less of his riches Virtue or Kindred.

When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire especially if it be at a Door or any Straight place to give way for him to Pass.

Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion.