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