I don’t look at this as a list of DON’Ts, it’s more a guideline for if you don’t know what to do in a situation. Like the situations below:
31. If any one far surpasses others, either in age, estate, or merit yet would give place to a meaner than himself in his own lodging or elsewhere the one ought not to except it, so he on the other part should not use much earnestness nor offer it above once or twice.
If you’re sleeping over at someone’s home and they offer you their biggest bed, you should politely decline. Of if that someone gets up from the head of the table and offers you the seat, politely decline. But if he insists, don’t make him beg you more than twice, just take whatever is offered with gratitude.