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[1]Make not thy boast of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring foorth |
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[2]Let another man prayse thee, and not thyne owne mouth, yea other folkes, and not thyne owne lippes |
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[3]The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both |
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[4]Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie |
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[5]Open rebuke, is better then secrete loue |
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[6]Faythfull are the woundes of a louer: but the kysses of an enemie are cruell |
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[7]He that is full, abhorreth an honye combe: but vnto hym that is hungrye, euery sowre thing is sweete |
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[8]He that oft times flitteth, is like a byrd that forsaketh her nest |
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[9]Baulme and sweete incense make the heart merie: so sweete is that frende that geueth counsell from the heart |
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[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 |
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[11]My sonne be wyse, and make me a glad heart, that I may make aunswere vnto my rebukers |
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[12]A wyse man seing the plague, wyll hide hym selfe: as for fooles they go on styll and suffer harme |
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[13]Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake |
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[14]He that is to hastie to praise his neighbour aboue measure, shalbe taken as one that geueth hym an euyll report |
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[15]A brawling woman and the roofe of the house dropping in a raynie day, may well be compared together |
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[16]He that stilleth her, stilleth the winde, and stoppeth the smell of the oyntment in his hande |
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[17]Like as one iron whetteth another, so doth one man comfort another |
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[18]Whoso kepeth his figge tree, shall eate the fruites thereof: so he that wayteth vpon his maister, shall come to honour |
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[19]Like as in one water there appeare diuers faces: euen so diuers men haue diuers heartes |
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[20]Hell and destruction are neuer full: euen so the eyes of men can neuer be satisfied |
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[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 |
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[22]Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym |
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[23]Be thou diligent to knowe the state of thy cattell thy selfe, and loke well to thy flockes |
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[24]For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer |
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[25]The hay groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and hearbes are gathered in the mountaynes |
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[26]The lambes shall clothe thee, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry |
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[27]Thou shalt haue goates milke inough to feede thee, to vpholde thy housholde, and to sustayne thy maydens |