- 1. Better is a drye morsell with quietnesse, then a house full of fat offeryng with strife.
- 2. A discrete seruaunt shall haue rule ouer a lewde sonne, and shal haue heritage with the brethren.
- 3. As siluer is tryed in the fire, and golde in the furnace: so doth the Lorde proue the heartes.
- 4. A wicked body geueth heede to false lippes, and a lyer geueth eare to a deceiptfull tongue.
- 5. Who so scorneth the poore, blasphemeth his maker: and he that is glad at [another mans] hurt, shall not be vnpunished.
- 6. Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.
- 7. Speache of aucthoritie becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying mouth then beseemeth a prince.
- 8. A gyft is as a precious stone vnto hym that hath it: but vnto whom soeuer it turneth, it maketh hym vnwise.
- 9. Who so couereth a fault, procureth loue: but he that discloseth it, deuideth very frendes.
- 10. One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
- 11. A seditious person seketh mischiefe, and a cruell messenger shalbe sent agaynst hym.
- 12. It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse.
- 13. Who so rewardeth euill for good, euil shall not depart from his house.
- 14. The beginning of strife is, as when a man maketh an issue for water: therfore leaue of before the contention be medled with.
- 15. The Lorde hateth as well hym that iustifieth the vngodly, as him that condempneth the innocent.
- 16. Whereto hath a foole treasure in his hande to bye wisdome, seeing he hath no minde therto?
- 17. He is a frende that alway loueth, and in aduersitie a man shall knowe who is his brother.
- 18. Who so promiseth by the hande and is suretie for his neighbour, he is a foole.
- 19. He that delighteth in sinne, loueth strife: and who so setteth his doore to hye, seeketh destruction.
- 20. Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe.
- 21. He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy.
- 22. A mery heart make a lustie age: but a sorowfull minde dryeth vp the bones.
- 23. The vngodly taketh gyftes out of the bosome, to wrest the wayes of iudgement.
- 24. Wisdome [shineth] in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of fooles wander throughout al landes.
- 25. An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother.
- 26. Certaynely to condempne the iust is not good: nor to strike the gouernours whiche iudge rightly.
- 27. A wyse man vseth fewe wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of a pacient spirite.
- 28. Yea, a very foole when he holdeth his tongue is counted wise: and he that stoppeth his lippes is esteemed prudent.
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