"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.