Ill manners at table

NASTINESS, is a neglect, or carelesness of the body; a slovenry or beastliness very lothsome to men. A nasty beastly fellow is he, who having a leprosy, pox, or other contagious disease, wearing long and lothsome nails, intrudeth himselfe into company; and saith: Gentlemen of race and antiquity have these diseases; and that his Father, and Grand father were subject to the same. This fellow having ulcers in his legs, nodes or hard tumors in his fingers, seeketh no remedy for them; suffering them to grow incurable; hairy as a Goat, black and worm-eaten teeth, foul breath; with him 'tis frequent and familiar, to wipe his nose when he is at meat, to talk with his mouth full, and not to breathe, but to belch in the midst of his draught; to use rank oil in his bathings; to come into the Hall or Senate house, with Clothes all stained and full of spots. Whosoever went to Sooth-sayers, he would not spare them but give them foul language. Oftentimes, when supplications and sacrifices were made, he would suffer the bowl to fall out of his hand, (as it were casually, but) purposely: then he would take up a great laughter, as if some prodigy or ominous thing had happened. When he heareth any Fidlers, he cannot hold but he must keep time, and with a kind of mimicall gesticulation (as it were) applaud and imitate their chords. Then he railes on the Fidler as a trouble-cup; because he made an end no sooner: and while he would spit beyond the table, hee all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.