NOTE: 26

12. When you drink wine, bow [in deference] to your elders, and turn your face to one side; and let your drinking be little or moderate. And if they compel [you] to drink yet more—though it is not proper to compel—beg pardon with humble words, decline, and do not drink, lest you become intoxicated. For drunkenness carries away a man's wits from his head, causes [him] to speak useless and unseemly words, and makes [him] a laughingstock and a jest unto all. 13. Break a morsel of bread with both hands; and do not break [it] with one hand by pinching [it] off. 14. If your bread runs out, do not reach out and take [it] from before another; but in some [discreet] manner make [it] known to the servant; or if you dare not, have patience until the host or the servant sees [it] and gives [it to you]. 15. If it be *t’an* [yogurt soup], or broth, or any other watery food, do not fill your spoon too full, lest it spill upon [your] morsel. 16. The remaining broth of the food, dr[ink...]