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¹ Make not thy boost of tomorow, for thou knowest not what maye happen todaye.

² Let another ma prayse the, & not thine owne mouth: yee other folkes lippes, and not thyne.

³ The stone is heuy, and the sonde weightie: but a fooles wrath is heuyer then they both.⁴ Wrath is a cruell thige, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: yee who is able to abyde envye?

⁵ An open rebuke is better, then a secrete loue.⁶ Faithfull are the woundes of a louer, but ye kysses of an enemie are disceatfull.

⁷ He that is full, abhorreth an hony combe: but vnto him that is hogrie, euery sower thinge is swete.

⁸ He that oft tymes flytteth, is like a byrde yt forsaketh hir nest.

⁹ The herte is glad of a swete oyntment and sauoure, but a stomacke that ca geue good councell, reioyseth a mans neghboure.¹⁰ Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende se thou forsake not, but go not in to thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble. Better is a frende at hode, then a brother farre of.

¹¹ My sonne, be wyse, and thou shalt make me a glad herte: so that I shal make answere vnto my rebukers.

¹² A wyse man seynge the plage wyl hyde him self, as for fooles they go on still, and suffer harme.

¹³ Take his garment that is suertie for a straunger, & take a pledge of him for the vnknowne mans sake.

¹⁴ He that is to hastie to praise his neghboure aboue measure, shalbe taken as one yt geueth him an euell reporte.

¹⁵ A brawlynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynie daye, maye well be compared together.¹⁶ He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in his hode.

¹⁷ Like as one yro whetteth another, so doth one man comforte another.

¹⁸ Who so kepeth his fyge tre, shal enioye the frutes therof: he that wayteth vpon his master, shal come to honoure.

¹⁹ Like as in one water there apeare dyuerse faces, eue so dyuerse men haue dyuerse hertes.

²⁰ Like as hell & destruccion are neuer full, euen so the eyes of me can neuer be satisfied.

²¹ Syluer is tryed in the moulde, & golde in the fornace, & so is a man, whan he is openly praysed to his face.

²² Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter like otemeell, yet wil not his foolishnesse go from him.

²³ Se yt thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy self, and loke well to thy flockes.²⁴ For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.²⁵ The hay groweth, ye grasse cometh vp, & herbes are gathered in ye mountaines.²⁶ The lambes shal clothe the, & for the goates thou shalt haue money to yi hu?bondry.²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy husholde, & to susteyne thy maydens.