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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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Shem Tob's Hebrew Matthew (1400)
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[1]Better is a drye morsell with quietnesse, then a house full of fat offeryng with strife [No book]
[2]A discrete seruaunt shall haue rule ouer a lewde sonne, and shal haue heritage with the brethren [No book]
[3]As siluer is tryed in the fire, and golde in the furnace: so doth the Lorde proue the heartes [No book]
[4]A wicked body geueth heede to false lippes, and a lyer geueth eare to a deceiptfull tongue [No book]
[5]Who so scorneth the poore, blasphemeth his maker: and he that is glad at [another mans] hurt, shall not be vnpunished [No book]
[6]Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children [No book]
[7]Speache of aucthoritie becommeth not a foole, much lesse a lying mouth then beseemeth a prince [No book]
[8]A gyft is as a precious stone vnto hym that hath it: but vnto whom soeuer it turneth, it maketh hym vnwise [No book]
[9]Who so couereth a fault, procureth loue: but he that discloseth it, deuideth very frendes [No book]
[10]One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole [No book]
[11]A seditious person seketh mischiefe, and a cruell messenger shalbe sent agaynst hym [No book]
[12]It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse [No book]
[13]Who so rewardeth euill for good, euil shall not depart from his house [No book]
[14]The beginning of strife is, as when a man maketh an issue for water: therfore leaue of before the contention be medled with [No book]
[15]The Lorde hateth as well hym that iustifieth the vngodly, as him that condempneth the innocent [No book]
[16]Whereto hath a foole treasure in his hande to bye wisdome, seeing he hath no minde therto [No book]
[17]He is a frende that alway loueth, and in aduersitie a man shall knowe who is his brother [No book]
[18]Who so promiseth by the hande and is suretie for his neighbour, he is a foole [No book]
[19]He that delighteth in sinne, loueth strife: and who so setteth his doore to hye, seeketh destruction [No book]
[20]Who so hath a frowarde heart, obteyneth no good: and he that hath a double tongue, shall fall into mischiefe [No book]
[21]He that begetteth a foole, begetteth his sorowe: and the father of a foole can haue no ioy [No book]
[22]A mery heart make a lustie age: but a sorowfull minde dryeth vp the bones [No book]
[23]The vngodly taketh gyftes out of the bosome, to wrest the wayes of iudgement [No book]
[24]Wisdome [shineth] in the face of hym that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of fooles wander throughout al landes [No book]
[25]An vndiscrete sonne is a griefe vnto his father: and an heauinesse vnto his mother [No book]
[26]Certaynely to condempne the iust is not good: nor to strike the gouernours whiche iudge rightly [No book]
[27]A wyse man vseth fewe wordes, and a man of vnderstanding is of a pacient spirite [No book]
[28]Yea, a very foole when he holdeth his tongue is counted wise: and he that stoppeth his lippes is esteemed prudent [No book]
Source: studybible.org
Author: Shem-Tob ben Isaac Ibn Shaprut (14th century)

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