If you’re walk with somebody elderly or visiting, etc . (http://www.philosimply.com/history/rules-civility-washington)

As a script exercise Washington merely copied word-for-word Francis Hawkins' translation which was published in England in about 1640 . (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_Civility_and_Decent_Behaviour_In_Company_and_Conversation)

 Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/24904-george-washington-s-rules-for-the-radically-right)