Rule No. 36:
Artificers & persons of low degree ought not to use many ceremonies to Lords or others of high degree, but respect and highly honor them; and those of high degree ought to treat them with affability & courtesy, without arrogance.
Your holiday-season fun may be over, taking all the twinkle out of winter–but that’s no reason you can’t have an insanely and in fact rather creepily HAPPY MORNING compliments of the Folger’s coffee-grinding and -canning concern.
Program note: I have let a couple of important strands lie untouched for some time now, namely the Federalist Papers commentary, which will resume very soon, and Washington’s rules of civility, which reappear right now with Rule No. 35:
Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive.
