Proverbs 27

Bishops^{(i) 1} Make not thy boast of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth ² Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes ³ The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both ⁴ Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie ⁵ Open rebuke, is better then secrete loue ⁶ Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell ⁷ He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete ⁸ He that oft times flitteth, is like a byrd that forsaketh her nest ⁹ Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart ¹⁰ Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende see thou forsake not, and go not into thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble: for better is a frende at hand, then a brother farre of ¹¹ My sonne be wyse, and make me a glad heart, that I may make aunswere vnto my rebukers ¹² A wyse man seing the plague, wyll hide hym selfe: as for fooles they go on styll and suffer harme ¹³ Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake ¹⁴ He that is to hastie to praise his neighbour aboue measure, shalbe taken as one that geueth hym an euyll report ¹⁵ A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together ¹⁶ He that stilleth her, stilleth the winde, and stoppeth the smell of the oyntment in his hande ¹⁷ Like as one iron whetteth another, so doth one man comfort another ¹⁸ Whoso kepeth his figge tree, shall eate the fruites thereof: so he that wayteth vpon his maister, shall come to honour ¹⁹ Like as in one water there appeare diuers faces: euen so diuers men haue diuers heartes ²⁰ Hell and destruction are neuer full: euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfied ²¹ As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him ²² Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym ²³ Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes ²⁴ For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer ²⁵ The hay groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and hearbes are gathered in the mountaynes ²⁶ The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry ²⁷ Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens