14. Stretch not your hand wherever it looks, And thrust not yourself with it into the dish.
15. Consider your neighbor’s liking by your own; And be discreet in every point.
16. Eat, as becomes a man, those things which are set before you; And eat not greedily, lest you be hated.
17. Be first to leave off for manners’ sake; And be not insatiable, lest you offend.
18. And if you sit among many, Reach not out your hand before them.
19. How sufficient to a well-mannered man is a very little, And he does not breathe hard upon his bed.
20. Healthy sleep comes of moderate eating; He rises early, and his wits are with him: The pain of wakefulness, and colic, And griping, are with an insatiable man.
21. And if you have been forced to eat, Rise up in the midst thereof, and you shall have rest.