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  • 1. My sonne if thou be suretie for thy neyghbour, and hast fastened thyne hande for another man:
  • 2. Thou art bounde with thine owne wordes, and taken with thine owne speach.
  • 3. Therfore my sonne do this, and thou shalt be discharged: When thou art come into thy neyghbours daunger, go thy wayes then soone, humble thy selfe, and with thy frendes intreate [thy creditour.]
  • 4. Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.
  • 5. Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the [hunter] and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.
  • 6. Go to the emmet thou sluggarde, consider her wayes, and learne to be wyse:
  • 7. She hath no guyde, nor ouerseer, nor ruler,
  • 8. Yet in the sommer she prouideth her meate, and gathereth her foode together in the haruest.
  • 9. Howe long wylt thou sleepe thou sluggishe man? When wylt thou aryse out of thy sleepe?
  • 10. Yea, sleepe on still a litle, slumber a litle, folde thyne handes together yet a litle that thou mayest sleepe:
  • 11. So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.
  • 12. An vngodly person, a wicked man, goeth with a frowarde mouth.
  • 13. He winketh with his eyes, he tokeneth with his feete, he teacheth with his fingers.
  • 14. He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde.
  • 15. Therefore shall his destruction come hastyly vpon hym, sodainly shall he be all to broken, and not be healed.
  • 16. These sixe thinges doth the Lorde hate, and the seuenth he vtterly abhorreth:
  • 17. A proude loke, a lying tongue, handes that shed innocent blood,
  • 18. An heart that goeth about wicked imaginations, feete that be swyft in running to mischiefe,
  • 19. A false witnesse that bringeth vp lyes, and hym that soweth discorde among brethren.
  • 20. My sonne, kepe thy fathers commaundement, and forsake not the lawe of thy mother:
  • 21. Tye them continually in thyne heart, and bynde them about thy necke.
  • 22. That shall leade thee when thou goest, preserue thee when thou art asleepe, and when thou awakest talke with thee.
  • 23. For the commaundement is a lanterne, and the lawe a light: yea chastening and nurture is the way of life:
  • 24. That they may kepe thee from the euyll woman, and from the flattering tongue of the straunge woman.
  • 25. Lust not after her beautie in thyne heart, lest thou be taken with her fayre lokes.
  • 26. By an harlot [a man is brought] to beg his bread, and a woman wyll hunte for the pretious life of man.
  • 27. May a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent?
  • 28. Or can one go vpon hotte coales, and his feete not be brent?
  • 29. Euen so, whosoeuer goeth in to his neyghbours wife and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.
  • 30. Men do not vtterly despise a thiefe that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hungrie:
  • 31. But if he may be gotten, he restoreth agayne seuen tymes as muche, or els he maketh recompence with all the good of his house.
  • 32. But whoso committeth adultrie with a woman, lacketh vnderstanding: and he that doth it, destroyeth his owne soule.
  • 33. He getteth him selfe a plague and dishonour, and his reproche shall neuer be put out:
  • 34. For the ielousie and wrath of the man wyll not be entreated,
  • 35. No though thou wouldest offer hym great gyftes to make amendes, he wyll not receaue them.