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[1] When thou sittest to eate with a noble man, consider diligently what is set before thee
[2] Measure thyne appetite if it be gredyly set
[3] Be not desirous of his daintie meates, for meate begyleth and deceaueth
[4] Take not ouer great trauayle to be riche, beware of suche a purpose
[5] Wylt thou set thyne eye vpon the thing which sodenly vanisheth away? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight lyke an Egle into the ayre
[6] Eate thou not the bread of hym that hath an euyll eye: neither desire thou his daintie meate
[7] For as though he thought it in his heart, he saith, eate and drinke: where as his heart is not with thee
[8] The morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreake, and loose those sweete wordes
[9] Tell nothing into the eares of a foole: for he wyll despise the wysdome of thy wordes
[10] Remoue not the olde lande marke, and come not within the fielde of the fatherlesse
[11] For their redeemer is mightie, euen he shall defend their cause against thee
[12] Applye thyne heart vnto correction, and thyne eare to the wordes of knowledge
[13] Withholde not correction from the chylde: for if thou beatest hym with the rodde, he shall not dye thereof
[14] If thou smyte hym with the rodde, thou shalt deliuer his soule from hell
[15] My sonne if thy heart receaue wysdome, my heart also shall reioyce
[16] Yea my raynes shalbe very glad, if thy lippes speake the thing that is right
[17] Let not thyne heart be ielous to folowe sinners, but kepe thee styll in the feare of the Lorde all the day long
[18] For veryly there is an ende, and thy pacient abiding shall not be cut of
[19] My sonne geue eare and be wyse, and set straight thyne heart in the way [of the Lorde.
[20] Kepe not company with wine bibbers, and riotous eaters of fleshe
[21] For suche as be drunkardes and riotours shall come to pouertie: and he that is geuen to muche sleepe, shall go with a ragged coate
[22] Geue eare vnto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde
[23] Purchase trueth, wysdome, nurture, and vnderstanding, and sell them not
[24] The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wyse chylde, shall haue ioy of hym
[25] [Do so that] thy father and mother may be glad of thee, and that she that bare thee may reioyce
[26] My sonne geue me thyne heart, and let thyne eyes haue pleasure in my wayes
[27] For an whore is a deepe graue, and a straunge woman is a narowe pit
[28] She lyeth in wayte as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours amongst men
[29] Who hath wo? who hath sorowe? who hath strife? who hath brawling? and who hath woundes without a cause
[30] Or who hath red eyes? euen they that be euer at the wine, & seeke excesse
[31] Looke not thou vpon the wine howe red it is, and what a colour it geueth in the glasse
[32] It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder
[33] Thyne eyes shall beholde straunge women, and thyne heart shall vtter lewde thinges
[34] Yea thou shalt be as though thou layest in the middest of the sea, or slepest vppon the top of the maste of a ship
[35] They haue beaten me [shalt thou say] and I was not sicke, they haue stricken me, and I felt it not: When I am well wakened, I wil go to the drinke again
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