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1 Make not thy boost of to morowe for thou knowest not what maye happen to daye.
2 Let another man prayse the, and not thyne awne mouth: yee other folckes lyppes, and not thyne.
3 The stone is heuy and the sande weyghtye: but a fooles wrath is heuyer then them both.
4 Wrath is a cruell thinge and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abyde enuye?
5 An open rebuke is better then a secrete loue.
6 Faythfull are the woundes of a louer, but the kysses of an enemye are cruell.
7 He that is full, abhoreth an hony combe: but vnto him that is hongrye, euery sowre thinge is swete.
8 He that oft tymes flytteth, is lyke a byrde that forsaketh her nest.
9 Balme and swete encense make the hert mery: so is the swete counsell of a mans frende that agreeth to his purpose.
10 Thyne awne frende and thy fathers frende se thou forsake not: but 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 thou shalt make me a glad herte so that I shall make answere vnto my rebukers.
12 A wyse man seynge the plage. wyll hyde hym selfe, as for fooles they go on styll, and suffer harme.
13 Take hys garment that is suertye for a straunger, and take a pledge of him for the vnknowen mans sake.
14 He that is to hastye to prayse hys neyghboure aboue measure, shalbe taken as one that geueth hym an euell reporte.
15 A braulynge woman and the rofe of the house droppynge in a raynye daye, maye well be compared together.
16 He that refrayneth her, refrayneth the wynde, & holdeth oyle fast in hys hande.
17 Lyke as one yron whetteth another, so doth one man comforte another.
18 Who so kepeth hys fygge tre, shall enioye the frutes therof: euen so, he that wayteth vpon his master, shall come to honoure.
19 Lyke as in one water there apeare dyuerse faces, euen so diuerse men haue diuerse hertes.
20 Lyke as hell and destruccyon are neuer full, euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfyed.
21 Syluer is tryed in the moulde, and golde in the fornace, and so is a man, when he is openly praysed to hys face.
22 Though thou shuldest bray a foole wt a pestell in a morter lyke frumentye corne, yet will not hys foolyshnesse go from hym.
23 Se that thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy selfe, & loke well to thy flockes.
24 For ryches abyde not alwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.
25 The heye groweth, the grasse commeth vp, & herbes are gathered in the mountaynes.
26 The lambes shall clothe the and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry.
27 Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the, to vpholde thy housholde, and to susteyne thy maydens.