When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Do you see those who are skillful in their work? they will serve kings; they will not serve common people.
and put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite.
These are blemishes on your love-feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;