188 The Inholders poste. 
[3] Let no man looke to purchase linne with pinching by 
the waie, 
But laie before he takes his Inne to make his purse to paie. 
For nothing paie and nothing praie, in Inne it is the gise, 
4 §P &P § 
Where no point gain, there no point pain, think this if 
you be wise. 
[5] For toiling much and spoiling more, great charge smal 
gains or none, 
Soone sets thine host at needams shore,’ to craue the 
beggers bone. 
[6] Foreséeing this, come day or night, take vp what place 
ye please. 
Vse mine as thine, let fortune spight, and boldly take 
thine ease. 
98. 
“| Certaine Table Lessons. 
I RIEND, eat lesse, and drinke lesse,? and buie thee a knife, 
else looke for a caruer not alway too rife. 
Some kniueles their daggers for brauerie weare, 
that often for surfetting neede not to feare. 
2 At dinner and supper the table doth craue 
good fellowly neighbour good manner to haue. 
Aduise thee well therefore, ere tongue be too free, 
or slapsauce be noted too saucie to bee. 
3 If anything wanteth or seemeth amis, 
to call for or shew it, good maner it is. 
But busie fault finder, and saucie withall, 
is roister like ruffen, no manner at all. 
1 A pun recorded by Ray. Needham is in Suffolk (M.). 
2 eateles and drinkles. 1577. 
