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¹ Boast not thy selfe of to morrow: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth.

² Let another man praise thee, and not thine owne mouth; a stranger, and not thine owne lips.

³ A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both. ⁴ Wrath is cruell, and anger is outragious: but who is able to stand before enuie?

⁵ Open rebuke is better then secret loue. ⁶ Faithfull are the woundes of a friend: but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull.

⁷ The full soule loatheth an honie combe: but to the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

⁸ As a bird that wandreth from her nest: so is a man that wandreth from his place.

⁹ Oyntment and perfume reioyce the heart: so doeth the sweetnesse of a mans friend by heartie counsell. ¹⁰ Thine owne friend and thy fathers friend forsake not; neither goe in to thy brothers house in the day of thy calamitie: for better is a neighbour that is neere, then a brother farre off.

¹¹ My sonne, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.

¹² A prudent man foreseeth the euil, and hideth himselfe: but the simple passe on, and are punished.

¹³ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹⁴ He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising earely in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

¹⁵ A continuall dropping in a very rainie day, and a contentious woman, are alike. ¹⁶ Whosoeuer hideth her, hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which be wrayeth it selfe.

¹⁷ Iron sharpeneth iron: so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

¹⁸ Whoso keepeth the figtree, shall eate the fruit therof: so he that waiteth on his master, shall be honoured.

¹⁹ As in water face answereth to face: so the heart of man to man.

²⁰ Hell and destruction are neuer full: so the eyes of man are neuer satisfied.

²¹ As the fining pot for siluer, and the furnace for gold: so is a man to his praise.

²² Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him.

²³ Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy flocks, and looke well to thy herds. ²⁴ For riches are not for euer: and doth the crowne endure to euery generation? ²⁵ The hay appeareth, and the tender grasse sheweth it selfe, and herbes of the mountaines are gathered. ²⁶ The lambes are for thy clothing, and the goates are the price of thy field. ²⁷ And thou shalt haue goats milke enough for thy food, for the food of thy houshold, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.