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¹ Make not thy boast of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth.

² Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes.

³ The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.⁴ Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie?

⁵ Open rebuke, is better then secrete loue.⁶ Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell.

⁷ He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete.

⁸ He that oft times flitteth, is like a byrd that forsaketh her nest.

⁹ Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart.¹⁰ Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende see thou forsake not, and go not into thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble: for better is a frende at hand, then a brother farre of.

¹¹ My sonne be wyse, and make me a glad heart, that I may make aunswere vnto my rebukers.

¹² A wyse man seing the plague, wyll hide hym selfe: as for fooles they go on styll and suffer harme.

¹³ Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

¹⁴ He that is to hastie to praise his neighbour aboue measure, shalbe taken as one that geueth hym an euyll report.

¹⁵ A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together.¹⁶ He that stilleth her, stilleth the winde, and stoppeth the smell of the oyntment in his hande.

¹⁷ Like as one iron whetteth another, so doth one man comfort another.

¹⁸ Whoso kepeth his figge tree, shall eate the fruites thereof: so he that wayteth vpon his maister, shall come to honour.

¹⁹ Like as in one water there appeare diuers faces: euen so diuers men haue diuers heartes.

²⁰ Hell and destruction are neuer full: euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfied.

²¹ As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him.

²² Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.

²³ Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes.²⁴ For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer.²⁵ The hay groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and hearbes are gathered in the mountaynes.²⁶ The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry.²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens.