The Celtic Holidays

A COMPILATION OF TRIADS

RESPECTING ETIQUETTE:

 

  1. There are three things proper from one who has received kindness:
    1. their thanks
    2. their remembrance
    3. their requital
  2. Three things for which thanks are due, because that is as easy as reward:
    1. an invitation
    2. a gift
    3. a warning
  3. Three qualities unbecoming anyone:
    1. being importunate in asking
    2. hard in giving
    3. ill in opinion
  4. Three things which bring one many invitations:
    1. saying little, and that wise and instructive
    2. quiet mirth without great effort
    3. behaving always without arrogance
  5. Three things which cause one loss of invitations:
    1. eating too much
    2. speaking too much
    3. asking too much
  6. Three who ought not to be invited to a house:
    1. a flattering deceiver
    2. a scornful mocker
    3. an envious traitor
  7. Three things unhandsome at a banquet:
    1. a skewer too short
    2. a blunt knife
    3. a dish out of reach
  8. Three indignities of one at a feast:
    1. coughing in their drink
    2. cutting their hand with a knife
    3. spilling their broth
  9. Three improprieties of one at a feast:
    1. breaking from every piece in the dish
    2. putting in their mouth more than his companion can respond to 39,
    3. drinking with his piece in his mouth
      1. and a fourth impropriety:
        1. finding fault with the food they eat.
  10. Three meats of the hosteller:
    1. boiled flesh
    2. red flesh
    3. living flesh40
  11. Three things never to bring one who has been your host:
    1. harm
    2. contention
    3. ill repute
  12. Three reasons for keeping silent:
    1. against saying the thing one ought not
    2. against speaking in the way one ought not
    3. against speaking in the place one ought not
  13. Three reasons for speaking, come what may:
    1. for instruction against ignorance
    2. counsel against strife
    3. truth against harmful falsehood
  14. Three things do no hurt against any:
    1. concealing ill manners
    2. controlling passion
    3. and destroying ill intention
  15. There are three things which one should give freely to guests:
    1. gracious accommodation
    2. friendly conversation
    3. insured safety
  16. Three elements of gracious accommodation:
    1. Cheerful welcome
    2. hot sustenance
    3. a warm bed
  17. Three things a guest should never bring to another's house:
    1. ill tidings
    2. presumptuous license
    3. treachery
  18. Three improprieties of a person at a feast:
    1. partaking of every piece on the dish
    2. stuffing the mouth
    3. talking with the mouth full41
  19. Three things all should have on hand for a guest, expected or not:
    1. open door
    2. undry cauldron 42
    3. warm bed

Contents
1. Preface 22. Respecting The Bad Home
2. An Omnium Gatherum 23. Pertaining To The Fili'
3. Respecting Excellence 24. Pertaining To Contracts And Agreements
4. Respecting The Conscientious Person 26. Good Health And Bad.
5. Respecting The Rewards Of Excellence 27. Advisements Of Prudence
6. Origins Of Wrong Doing 28. Respecting The Order Of Nature
7. Respecting Those Gone Amiss 29. Respecting The Nature Of Humankind
8. The Profits Of Those Who Have Gone Amiss 30. Respecting Action
9. Respecting Wealth And Poverty 31. Respecting Knowledge
10. Miscellaneous Wisdom 32. Respecting Wisdom
11. The Order Of Society 33. Respecting Those Who Are Wise
12. The Underpinnings Of Society 34. Respecting The Fool And Their Inanity
13. The Banes Of Society 35. Respecting Wisdom Applied
14. Respecting Land And Husbandry 36. Respecting Ambitions And The Roads To Success
15. The Respectable Citizen 37. Respecting Friendship
16. The Nocuous Citizen 38. Respecting Happiness
17. Respecting Legacies 39. Respecting Philosophy
18. Monitorial Advisements 40. Respecting Warriors
19. Manifold Blessings And Beneficence 41. Respecting The True Human
20. Respecting Etiquette 42. Respecting Spirituality
21. Respecting The Good Home  
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