If ye like such meats, yet follow not ever thy phantasy.[[334]]
Corrupt not thy lips with eating, as a pig in draff;
Eat softly and drink mannerly; beware ye do not quaff.
Scratch not thy head with[[335]] thy fingers, when thou art at meat,
Nor spit you over the table-board, see thou do not forget.
Pick not thy teeth with thy knife nor finger-end,
But with a stick[[336]] or some clean thing, then do ye not offend.
If your teeth be putrified, methinks it is no right
To touch meat that other should eat, it is no cleanly sight.
Pick not thy hands nor play with thy knife;