Well-Spoken Words

The Buddha tells the mendicants that speech with five factors is well spoken rather than poorly spoken, blameless, and not criticized by sensible people. The five are that the speech is timely, true, gentle, beneficial, and loving. The discourse is only a few lines long: it states the claim, asks ‘What five?’, lists them, and restates the claim. No examples are given and nothing is said about how the five relate to one another.