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to keep your fingers clean, it is the best way to eat
nothing but with a fork. If any one at the table has
lent you his knife, spoon, or fork, you must be sure to
wipe it well upon your napkin, or else send it to the
side-board to be wash’d.” P. 99 : “ ’Tis not civil to
pick your teeth at the table with your knife or fork, or
rinse your mouth after you have din’d, if there be
persons of quality in the room.” P. 91 : “If we be to
eat out of the [same] dish, we must have a care of
putting in our spoons before our superiours, or of eating
out of any other part of the dish than that which is
directly before us.” P. 92 : “ Having served your self
with your spoon, you must remember to wipe it, and
indeed as oft as you use it; for some [!] are so nice
they will not eat pottage, or anything of that nature,
in which you put your spoon unwip’d, after you have
put it into your mouth. Some are so curious, they
will not endure a spoon to be used in 2 several dishes ;
and therefore in several places ’tis grown a mode to
have spoons brought in with every dish to be used only
for pottage and sawce.”
Among the rules for behaviour while travelling, the
author observes, on p. 116: “If in your journey you
be constrained to take up your quarters in the same
chamber with the qualify’d person, you must give him
leave to undress and to go to bed first; and when he
has done, you are to strip and go to bed after him, and
to lie so as to give him no disturbance all night.”
P. 117 : “ It is not tolerable to comb your head in the
kitchen [of the inn], where your hairs may fly into the
dishes, upon the meat.”
There are many more curious and amusing parti-
to keep your fingers clean, it is the best way to eat
nothing but with a fork. If any one at the table has
lent you his knife, spoon, or fork, you must be sure to
wipe it well upon your napkin, or else send it to the
side-board to be wash’d.” P. 99 : “ ’Tis not civil to
pick your teeth at the table with your knife or fork, or
rinse your mouth after you have din’d, if there be
persons of quality in the room.” P. 91 : “If we be to
eat out of the [same] dish, we must have a care of
putting in our spoons before our superiours, or of eating
out of any other part of the dish than that which is
directly before us.” P. 92 : “ Having served your self
with your spoon, you must remember to wipe it, and
indeed as oft as you use it; for some [!] are so nice
they will not eat pottage, or anything of that nature,
in which you put your spoon unwip’d, after you have
put it into your mouth. Some are so curious, they
will not endure a spoon to be used in 2 several dishes ;
and therefore in several places ’tis grown a mode to
have spoons brought in with every dish to be used only
for pottage and sawce.”
Among the rules for behaviour while travelling, the
author observes, on p. 116: “If in your journey you
be constrained to take up your quarters in the same
chamber with the qualify’d person, you must give him
leave to undress and to go to bed first; and when he
has done, you are to strip and go to bed after him, and
to lie so as to give him no disturbance all night.”
P. 117 : “ It is not tolerable to comb your head in the
kitchen [of the inn], where your hairs may fly into the
dishes, upon the meat.”
There are many more curious and amusing parti-