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Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.

Heare thou, my sonne, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath rednesse of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine.

Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things.

Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast.

They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe.