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62. Inquire and impart
    Should every man of sense,
    Who will be accounted sage.
    Let one only know,
    A second may not;
    If three, all the world knows.

63. Gasps and gapes,
    When to the sea he comes,
    The eagle over old ocean;
    So is a man
    Who among many comes,
    And has few advocates.

64. His power should
    Every sagacious man
    Use with discretion,
    For he will find,
    When among the bold he comes,
    That no one alone is doughtiest.

65. Circumspect and reserved
    Every man should be,
    And wary in trusting friends;
    Of the words
    That a man says to another
    He often pays the penalty.

66. Much too early
    I came to many places,
    But too late to others;
    The beer was drunk,
    Or not ready:
    The disliked seldom hits the moment.

67. Here and there I should
    Have been invited
    If I a meal had needed;
    Or two hams had hung
    At that true friend's
    Where of one I had eaten.