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| [1]Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. |
[1]Make not thy boast of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth |
| [2]Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. |
[2]Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes |
| [3]A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than they both. |
[3]The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both |
| [4]Wrath is cruel, and anger overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? |
[4]Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie |
| [5]Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden. |
[5]Open rebuke, is better then secrete loue |
| [6]Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are importunate. |
[6]Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell |
| [7]The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. |
[7]He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete |
| [8]As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. |
[8]He that oft times flitteth, is like a byrd that forsaketh her nest |
| [9]Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. |
[9]Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart |
| [10]Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity; better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. |
[10]Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende see thou forsake not, and go not into thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble: for better is a frende at hand, then a brother farre of |
| [11]My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that taunteth me. |
[11]My sonne be wyse, and make me a glad heart, that I may make aunswere vnto my rebukers |
| [12]A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the thoughtless pass on, and are punished. |
[12]A wyse man seing the plague, wyll hide hym selfe: as for fooles they go on styll and suffer harme |
| [13]Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman. |
[13]Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake |
| [14]He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in t morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. |
[14]He that is to hastie to praise his neighbour aboue measure, shalbe taken as one that geueth hym an euyll report |
| [15]A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike; |
[15]A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together |
| [16]He that would hide her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand betrayeth itself. |
[16]He that stilleth her, stilleth the winde, and stoppeth the smell of the oyntment in his hande |
| [17]Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. |
[17]Like as one iron whetteth another, so doth one man comfort another |
| [18]Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. |
[18]Whoso kepeth his figge tree, shall eate the fruites thereof: so he that wayteth vpon his maister, shall come to honour |
| [19]As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. |
[19]Like as in one water there appeare diuers faces: euen so diuers men haue diuers heartes |
| [20]The nether-world and Destruction are never satiated; so the eyes of man are never satiated. |
[20]Hell and destruction are neuer full: euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfied |
| [21]The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, and a man is tried by his praise. |
[21]As is the fining pot for the siluer, and the furnace for golde: so is a man tryed by the mouth of him that prayseth him |
| [22]Though tho shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle among groats, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. |
[22]Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym |
| [23]Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds; |
[23]Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes |
| [24]For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations? |
[24]For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer |
| [25]When the hay is mown, and the tender grass showeth itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in; |
[25]The hay groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and hearbes are gathered in the mountaynes |
| [26]The lambs will be for thy clothing, and the goats the price for a field. |
[26]The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry |
| [27]And there will be goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household; and maintenance for thy maidens. |
[27]Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens |