defects or blemishes, although natural, especially if they be in the face, nor enquire what they proceed from.  What you would readily say in the ear of a friend ought to be preserved under the key of silence when you are in society.

72d.  Speak not in an unknown Tongue in Company but in your own Language and that as those of Quality do and not as y’e Vulgar; Sublime matters treat Seriously.

Chapter vii. 11.  Ne vous seruez iamais en vos discours & n’employez vne langue qui ne vous est pas bien cognue & familiere, si ce n’est en vne occasion bien pressante, pour donner plus clairement a connoistre vostre pensee.  Parlez tousiours en la vostre maternelle & natale, non pas grossierement, comme la lie du peuple, ou les pauures chambrieres; mais comme les plus delicats & les plus gros Bourgeois, auec erudition & auec elegance.  Et prenez a tache d’obseruer en vos discours les regles de l’honnestete & de la modestie; & vous gardez bien de ces contes vn peu trop libres; ne les faites ny en l’oreille d’vn autre, ny ne les poussez par jeu auec profusion.  N’employez point de termes bas & raualez ou populaires en des matieres hautes & reluees.

In your conversation never use a language with which you are not thoroughly acquainted and familiar, unless in some very urgent case to render your idea more clearly.  Always speak in your native and mother tongue, not coarsely like the dregs of the people, or poor chamber-maids, but like the most refined and well-to-do citizens, with erudition and elegance.  And in your discourse take care to observe the rules of decorum and modesty, and be sure to avoid rather risky tales; do not whisper such to another, and do not indulge them too frequently in sport.  Do not use low, base or vulgar expressions when treating of serious and sublime subjects.

73’d.  Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring out your Words too hastily but orderly and Distinctly

Chapter vii. 12.  Ne vous mettez point a discourir, que vous ne vous y soyez bien prepare, & que vous n’ayez bien estudie vostre suiet.  Dans l’entretien ordinaire, n’allez point chercher de periphrases, point de subtilitez, ny de figures.  Ne confondez point vos paroles dans les coutumes d’vne langue trop brusque & begayante; mais aussi, ne parlez pas si lentement, & a tant de reprises, que vous donniez de l’ennuy.

Do not begin speaking unless you are quite prepared, and have well studied your subject.  In ordinary conversation do not seek periphrases, subtleties, or figures of speech.  Do not let your words become confused by too abrupt or hesitating a delivery, and do not let your speech be so slow and broken as to become tedious.

74th When Another Speaks be attentive your Self and disturb not the Audience if any hesitate in his Words help him not nor Prompt him without desired, Interrupt him not, nor Answer him till his Speech be ended