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| [1]Happy is the man that hath a vertuous wyfe: for the nuber of his yeres shalbe double. |
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| [2]An honest woman maketh her husbande a ioyfull man, and she shall fill the yeres of his lyfe in peace. |
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| [3]A vertuous woman is a noble gift, whiche shalbe geuen for a good portion vnto such as feare God: |
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| [4]Whether a man be riche or poore, he may haue euer a mery heart, & a cheareful countenaunce. |
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| [5]There be three thinges that my heart feareth, and my face is afrayde of the fourth: treason in a citie, a seditious people, and noysome tongues: all these are heauyer then the death. |
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| [6]When one woman is ielous ouer an other, it bringeth payne and sorowe vnto the heart: and a woman that telleth out all thinges, is a scourge of the tongue. |
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| [7]When one hath an euyll wyfe, it is euen as when an vnlyke payre of oxen must drawe together: he that getteth her, getteth a scorpion. |
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| [8]A drunken woman is a great plague: for she can not couer her owne shame. |
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| [9]The whordome of a woman may be knowen in the pryde of her eyes and eye liddes. |
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| [10]If thy daughter be not shamefast, hold her straytly, lest she abuse her selfe thorowe ouer much libertie. |
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| [11]Beware of all the dishonestie of her eyes, & maruel not if she do against thee. |
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| [12]As a way faring man that is thirstie, when he hath founde a well drinketh of euery water: so will she sit downe by euery hedge, and make her selfe common to euery man that passeth by. |
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| [13]A louing wyfe reioyceth her husbande, & feedeth his bones with her wysdome. |
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| [14]A woman of fewe wordes is a gift of God: to all nurtured myndes may nothing be compared. |
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| [15]An honest and manerly woman is a gift aboue other giftes: and there is no wayght to be compared vnto a minde that can rule it selfe. |
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| [16]Like as the sunne when it ariseth, is an ornament in the hie heauen of the Lord: so is a vertuous wyfe the beautie of all her house. |
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| [17]Like as the cleare light is vpon the holy candelsticke: so is the beautie of the face vpon an honest body. |
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| [18]Like as the golden pillers are vpon the sockettes of siluer: so are the fayre feete vpon a woman that hath a constant mynde. |
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| [19]Perpetual are the foundations that be layed vpon a whole stony rocke: so are the commaundementes of God vpon the heart of an holy woman. |
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| [20]There be two thinges that greeue my heart, & in the thirde is displeasure come vpo me: When an experte man of warre suffreth scarsenesse and pouertie, when men of vnderstanding and wisdome are not set by, and when one departeth from righteousnesse vnto sinne: Who so doth such, the Lorde hath prepared him vnto the sworde. |
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| [21]There be two maner of thinges which me thinke to be harde and perilous: A marchaunt can not lightly kepe hym from wrong, neither a tauerner hym selfe from sinne. |
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