- 1. Honour a Phisitian with the honour due vnto him, for the vses which you may haue of him: for the Lord hath created him.
- 2. For of the most High commeth healing, and he shall receiue honour of the King.
- 3. The skill of the Phisitian shall lift vp his head: and in the sight of great men he shalbe in admiration.
- 4. The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhorre them.
- 5. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the vertue thereof might be knowen?
- 6. And he hath giuen men skill, that hee might be honoured in his marueilous workes.
- 7. With such doeth he heale and taketh away their paines.
- 8. Of such doeth the Apothecarie make a confection; and of his workes there is no end, and from him is peace ouer all the earth.
- 9. My sonne, in thy sickenesse be not negligent: but pray vnto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.
- 10. Leaue off from sinne, and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickednesse.
- 11. Giue a sweet sauour, and a memoriall of fine flowre: and make a fat offering, as not being.
- 12. Then giue place to the phisitian, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.
- 13. There is a time when in their hands there is good successe.
- 14. For they shall also pray vnto the Lord, that hee would prosper that, which they giue, for ease and remedy to prolong life.
- 15. He that sinneth before his maker, let him fal into the hand of the Phisitian.
- 16. My sonne, let teares fall downe ouer the dead, and begin to lament, as if thou hadst suffered great harme thy selfe: and then couer his body according to the custome, & neglect not his buriall.
- 17. Weepe bitterly, and make great moane, and vse lamentation, as hee is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be euill spoken of: and then comfort thy selfe for thy heauinesse.
- 18. For of heauinesse commeth death, and the heauinesse of the heart, breaketh strength.
- 19. In affliction also sorrow remaineth: and the life of the poore, is the curse of the heart.
- 20. Take no heauines to heart: driue it away, and remember the last end.
- 21. Forget it not, for there is no turning againe: thou shalt not doe him good, but hurt thy selfe.
- 22. Remember my iudgement: for thine also shall be so; yesterday for me, and to day for thee.
- 23. When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, & be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.
- 24. The wisedome of a learned man cometh by opportunitie of leasure: & he that hath litle busines shal become wise.
- 25. How can he get wisdome that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driueth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talke is of bullocks?
- 26. He giueth his minde to make furrowes: and is diligent to giue the kine fodder.
- 27. So euery carpenter, and workemaster, that laboureth night and day: and they that cut and graue seales, and are diligent to make great variety, and giue themselues to counterfait imagerie, and watch to finish a worke.
- 28. The smith also sitting by the anuill, & considering the iron worke; the vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace: the noise of the hammer & the anuill is euer in his eares, and his eies looke still vpon the patterne of the thing that he maketh, he setteth his mind to finish his worke, & watcheth to polish it perfitly.
- 29. So doeth the potter sitting at his worke, and turning the wheele about with his feet, who is alway carefully set at his worke: and maketh all his worke by number.
- 30. He fashioneth the clay with his arme, and boweth downe his strength before his feet: he applieth himselfe to lead it ouer; and he is diligent to make cleane the furnace.
- 31. All these trust to their hands: and euery one is wise in his worke.
- 32. Without these cannot a citie be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor goe vp and downe.
- 33. They shall not be sought for in publike counsaile; nor sit high in the congregation: they shal not sit on the Iudges seate, nor vnderstand the sentence of iudgement: they cannot declare iustice, and iudgement, and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
- 34. But they will maintaine the state of the world, and their desire is in the worke of their craft.
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