The welcome becomes wearisome if he sits too long at another's table.
This means that we must not impose on our friends; but there is a further caution on the subject of eating at a friend's house.

You must not go to your friend's house hungry, when you can help it.
A man should take his meal betimes, before he goes to his neighbour--or he will sit and seem hungered like one starving, and have no power to talk.
That is the main point to remember in dining at another's house, that you are not there only for your own pleasure, but for that of other people.
You are expected to talk; and you can not talk if you are very hungry.

At this very day a gentleman makes it the rule to do the same thing.
Accordingly we see that these rough men of the North must have had a good deal of social refinement--refinement not of dress or of speech, but of feeling.

Still, says the poet, one's own home is the best, though it be but a cottage.

"A man is a man in his own house." Now we come to some sentences teaching caution, which are noteworthy in a certain way: Tell one man thy secret, but not two.