for ale þat is newe is wastable with-owteñ dowt:

And looke þat alle þynge be pure & clene þat ye go abowt.

Be fayre of answere / redy to serue / and also gentelle of chere,

and þañ meñ wille sey ‘þere gothe a gentille officere.’

be ware þat ye geue no persone palled[42] drynke, for feere

hit myȝt brynge many a man in dissese / durynge many a ȝere.

[ Son, hit is tyme of þe day / þe table wold be layde.]

Furst wipe þe table with a clothe or þat hit be splayd,

þañ lay a clothe oñ þe table / a cowche[43] it is called & said:

take þy felow ooñ ende þerof / & þou þat othere that brayde,