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[1] A good name is more to be desired then great riches: and louing fauour [is better] then siluer and golde
[2] The riche and poore meete together: the Lorde is the maker of them all
[3] A wyse man seeth the plague, and hydeth hym selfe: but the foolishe go on still, and are punished
[4] By humilitie and the feare of the Lorde, [commeth] riches, honour, and life
[5] Thornes and snares are in the way of the frowarde: but he that doth kepe his soule, wyll flee farre from them
[6] Teache a chylde what way he should go: for he shall not leaue it when he is olde
[7] The ryche ruleth the poore, and the borower is seruaunt to the lender
[8] He that soweth wickednes, shal reape wickednes: and the rodde of his anger shall fayle
[9] He that hath a bountifull eye, shalbe blessed: for he geueth of his bread to the poore
[10] Cast out the scorneful man, and so shal strife go out with hym: yea variaunce and sclaunder shall ceasse
[11] Who so loueth cleannes of heart, for the grace of his lippes the kyng shalbe his frende
[12] The eyes of the Lord preserue knowledge: and he ouerthroweth the wordes of the transgressours
[13] The slouthfull body saith there is a Lion without: I might be slaine in the streate
[14] The mouth of straunge women is a deepe pit: wherein he falleth that the Lorde is angrye withall
[15] Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away
[16] Who so doth a poore man wrong, to increase his owne [riches] and geueth vnto the ryche, at the last commeth to pouertie hym selfe
[17] Bowe downe thyne eare, and heare the wordes of the wise: applie thy mind vnto my doctrine
[18] For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes
[19] That thou mayest put thy trust in the Lorde, I haue shewed thee this day the thing that thou knowest
[20] Haue not I warned thee very oft with counsayle and learning
[21] That I might make thee knowe the trueth, that thou with the veritie mightest aunswere them that sende vnto thee
[22] Rob not the poore, because he is poore: and oppresse not the simple in iudgement
[23] For the Lorde him selfe wyll defende their cause, and do violence vnto them that haue vsed violence
[24] Make no frendship with an angrye wylfull man, and walke not with the furious
[25] Lest thou learne his wayes, and receaue hurt to thy soule
[26] Be not thou one of them that binde their hande vpon promise, and are suretie for waightie causes
[27] For if thou hast nothing to pay, they shall take away thy bed from vnder thee
[28] Thou shalt not remoue the auncient lande marke, whiche thy fore elders haue set
[29] Seest thou not that they which be diligent in their businesse stande before kinges, & not among the simple people
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