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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Be no Flatterer, neither Play with any that delights not to be Played Withal.

Be not hasty to believe flying Reports to the Disparagement of any.

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

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