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| [1]Be not ielous ouer the wife of thy bosome, that she shew not some shrewd poynt, lest thou teache her an euil lesson against thy selfe. |
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| [2]Geue not the power of thy lyfe vnto a woman, lest she come in thy strength, and so thou be confounded. |
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| [3]Loke not vpon a woman that is desyrous of many men, lest thou fall into her snares. |
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| [4]Use not the companie of a woman that is a player & a dauncer, & heare her not, lest thou perishe thorow her entising. |
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| [5]Behold not a mayden, that thou be not hurt in her beautie. |
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| [6]Cast not thy minde vpon harlots in any maner of thing, lest thou destroy both thy selfe and thyne heritage. |
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| [7]Go not about gasing in euery lane of the citie, neither wander thou abrode in the streetes therof. |
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| [8]Turne away thy face from a beautifull woman, and loke not vpon the fayrnesse of other: Many a man hath ben deceaued thorowe the beautie of women, for thorow it the desire is kindled as it were a fire. |
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| [9]An adulterous woman shalbe troden vnder foote as myre, of euery one that goeth by the way. |
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| [10]Many a man wondering at the beautie of a straunge woman, hath ben cast out: for her wordes kyndle as a fyre. |
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| [11]Sit not with an other mans wife by any meanes, lye not with her vpon the bed, make no wordes with her at the wine: lest thyne heart consent vnto her, and so thou with thy blood fall into destruction. |
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| [12]Forsake not an olde friende, for the new shall not be lyke him: A newe friende is newe wine, let hym be olde and thou shalt drinke hym with pleasure. |
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| [13]Desire not the honour and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what destruction is for to come vpon hym. |
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| [14]Delyte not thou in the thing that the vngodly haue pleasure in, beyng sure that the vngodly shall not be accepted vntill their graue. |
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| [15]Kepe thee from the man that hath power to slay, so needest thou not to be afrayde of death: And yf thou commest vnto hym, make no fault, lest he happen to take away thy lyfe: Remember that thou goest in the middest of snares, and vpon the bulworkes of thy citie. |
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| [16]Beware of thy neyghbour as nye as thou canst, and meddle with such as be wyse and haue vnderstanding. |
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| [17]Let iust men be thy gestes, let thy mirth be in the feare of God. |
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| [18]Let the remembraunce of God be in thy mynde, and let all thy talking be in the commaundementes of the hyghest. |
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| [19]In the handes of craftes men shall the workes be commaunded: so shall the princes of the people in the wysdome of their talking. |
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| [20]A man full of wordes is perilous in his citie: and he that is rashe in his talking, shalbe abhorred. |
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