✧1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; Copy✧2put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite. Copy✧3Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food. Copy✧4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint. Copy✧5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky. Copy✧6Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies, Copy✧7for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. Copy✧8You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. Copy✧9