Couch : running or servant . If someone sees that he is using a copper bowl, he will buy a Turkish maid, because the copper is carried by the Turk . If the bowl is of silver, the slave girl is Roman . If it is of gold, then she is a beautiful woman who demands what he cannot and costs what he cannot bear . It was said that the dish was a woman who advised her husband to indicate the reason for his purity and his salvation .