he may be able to speak to you without inconvenience.  If he is your equal in rank, keep step with him during the whole walk, and do not always turn first at every end of the walk.  Do not stop often midway without reason, such liberty touches his dignity and gives dissatisfaction.  He who is the centre of the company by whom he is surrounded ought, if those of whom it consists are equal or nearly equal in rank, always to turn to the right once during the walk, and if they are manifestly unequal, he should oftenest turn towards the most distinguished.  Lastly those who are about him should always turn round towards his side and at the same time as he, neither before nor after, as he is, so to say, the object of the walk.

58th. let your conversation be without malice or envy, for ’tis a sign of a tractable and commendable nature:  & in all causes of passion admit reason to govern

Hawkins v. 9.  Let thy conversation be without malice or envye, for that is a signe of a tractable and commendable nature.  And in all causes of passion, admit reason for thy governesse.  So shall thy Reputation be either altogether inviolable, or at the least not stayned with common Tinctures.

59th.  Never express anything unbecoming, nor Act against the Rules Moral before your inferiours

[Sidenote:  Walker:  ’A man should not divertise himself with his Inferiors, nor make his Servants privy to his infirmities and failures.’]

Hawkins v. 10.  Never expresse any thing unbeseeming, nor act against the Rules morall, before thy inferiours, For in these things, thy own guilt will multiply Crimes by example, and as it were, confirme Ill by authority.

60th.  Be not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret

[Sidenote:  Hawkins uses the word ‘Farce’ instead of ‘Stuff.’]

     Hawkins v. 11.  Be not immodest in urging thy friend to discover his
     secrets; lest an accidentall discovery of them work a breach in
     your amitye.

61st.  Utter not base and frivilous things amongst grave and Learn’d Men nor very Difficult Questions or Subjects, among the Ignorant or things hard to be believed, Stuff not your Discourse with Sentences amongst your Betters nor Equals

Chapter vii. 1. dans la conuersation de gents doctes & habiles ne debitez pas des bagatelles, & n’auancez pas des discours trop releuez parmy les ignorants, qu’ils ne soient po[note:  word missing here] capables d’entendre, ou qu’ils ne puissent pas croire fort facilement. ne debutez pas toujours par des prouerbes, particulierement parmy vos egaux, & bien moins auec vos superieurs. ne parlez point de choses a cotr[e]teps, ou qui puissent choquer les esprits de vos auditeurs. parmy les banquets, & dans les iours de resioueissance ne mettez point sur le tapis de tristes nouuelles, point de recits de rudes calamitez, point d’ordures, point de deshonestetez, point d’afflictions.