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¹ A good name is more worth then greate riches, and louynge fauor is better then syluer and golde.

² Whether riches or pouerte do mete vs, it commeth all of God.

³ A wyse man seyth the plage and hydeth himself, but the foolish go on still and are punyshed.

⁴ The ende of lowlynes & the feare of God, is riches, honor, prosperite and health.

⁵ Speares and snares are in ye waye of the frowarde, but he yt wil kepe his soule, let him fle fro soch.

⁶ Yf thou teachest a childe in his youth what waye he shulde go, he shall not leaue it when he is olde.

⁷ The rich ruleth the poore, and ye borower is seruaunt to ye lender.

⁸ He yt soweth wickednesse, shal reape sorowe, & the rodde of his plage shal destroye him.

⁹ A louynge eye shalbe blessed, for he geueth of his bred vnto ye poore.

¹⁰ Cast out ye scornefull man, and so shal strife go out wt him, yee variaunce and slaunder shal cease.

¹¹ Who so delyteth to be of a clene herte and of gracious lyppes, ye kynge shal be his frende.

¹² The eyes of ye LORDE preserue knowlege, but as for ye wordes of ye despyteful, he bryngeth them to naught.

¹³ The slouthfull body sayeth: there is a lyo wt out, I might be slayne in ye strete.

¹⁴ The mouth of an harlot is a depe pytt, wherin he falleth that ye LORDE is angrie withall.

¹⁵ Foolishnes sticketh in the herte of ye lad, but ye rod of correccion driueth it awaye.

¹⁶ Who so doth a poore man wronge to increase his owne riches, geueth (comoly) vnto the rich, and at the last commeth to pouerte himself.

¹⁷ My sonne, bowe downe thine eare, and herken vnto the wordes of wy?dome, applye yi mynde vnto my doctryne:¹⁸ for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:¹⁹ that thou mayest allwaye put yi trust in the LORDE.²⁰ Haue not I warned ye very oft with councell and lerninge?²¹ yt I might shewe ye the treuth and that thou wt the verite mightest answere them yt laye eny thinge against ye?

²² Se yt thou robbe not ye poore because he is weake, and oppresse not ye simple in iudgment:²³ for ye LORDE himself wyl defende their cause, and do violence vnto them yt haue vsed violence.

²⁴ Make no fredshipe with an angrie wylfull man, and kepe no company wt ye furious:²⁵ lest thou lerne his wayes, and receaue hurte vnto thy soule.

²⁶ Be not thou one of them yt bynde ther hande vpo promyse, and are suertie for dett:²⁷ for yf thou hast nothinge to paye, they shal take awaye thy bed from vnder the.

²⁸ Thou shalt not remoue the lande marcke, which thy fore elders haue sett.

²⁹ Seist thou not, yt they which be diligent in their busines stonde before kynges, and not amonge the symple people?