148. ¶ To eate within the tedure.
Spare at the brink, not at the bottom.
[Fol. 64b.]
Do not spend much at the beginning of the year.
Give not your horse too long a tether.
If the horse break his tether,
[Fol. 65.]
he will be impounded.
Wherefore, ‘eat within thy tether.’
Do not break your tether.