V. Of the Management of the Craft in Working.

All Masons shall work honestly on working days, that they may live creditably on holy days; and the time appointed by the law of the land or confirmed by custom shall be observed.

The most expert of the Fellow Craftsman shall be appointed the Master, or Overseer of the lord's work, who is to be called Master by those that work under him. The Craftsmen are to avoid all ill language and to call each other by no disobliging name, but Brother or Fellow; and to behave themselves courteously within and without the Lodge.

The Master, knowing himself to be able of cunning, shall undertake the Lord's work as reasonably as possible, and truly dispend his goods as if they were his own; nor to give more wages to any brother or apprentice than he really may deserve.

Both the Master and the Masons receiving their wages justly, shall be faithful to the lord, and honestly finish their work, whether task or journey; nor put the work to task, that hath been accustomed to journey.

None shall discover envy at the prosperity of a brother, nor supplant him or put him out of his work, if he be capable to finish the same, for no man can finish another's work so much to the lord's profit unless he be thoroughly acquainted with the designs and drafts of him that began it.

When a Fellow Craftsman is chosen as Warden of the work under the Master, he shall be true both to Master and Fellows and shall carefully