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¹ There are places where syluer is molte, & where golde is tryed:² where yron is dygged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall.³ The darcknes shal once come to an ende, he can seke out the grounde of all thinges: the stones, the darcke, & the horrible shadowe,⁴ wt the ryuer of water parteth he a sunder the straunge people, yt knoweth no good neghbourheade: soch as are rude, vnmanerly & boysteous.⁵ He bryngeth foode out of the earth, & yt which is vnder, consumeth he with fyre.⁶ There is founde a place, whose stones are clene Saphirs, and where ye clottes of the earth are golde.⁷ There is a waye also that the byrdes knowe not, that no vulturs eye hath sene:⁸ wherin ye proude & hye mynded walke not, & where no lyon commeth.⁹ There putteth he his honde vpon the stony rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaynes.¹⁰ Ryuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seyth it.¹¹ Out of droppes bryngeth he greate floudes together, & the thinge that is hyd bryngeth he to light.¹² How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?¹³ Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge.

¹⁴ The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me.¹⁵ She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye.¹⁶ No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her.¹⁷ No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate.¹⁸ There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all.¹⁹ The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be.

²⁰ From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge?²¹ She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre.²² Destruccion & death saie: we haue herde tell of her wt oure eares.²³ But God seyth hir waie, & knoweth hir place.²⁴ For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder the heaue.²⁵ When he weyed the wyndes, & measured ye waters:²⁶ when he set the rayne in ordre, and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe:²⁷ Then dyd he se her, the declared he her, prepared her and knewe her.²⁸ And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.