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[1]Honour the phisition, honour him with that honour that is due vnto him, because of necessitie: for God hath created him.
[2]For of the highest commeth medicine, and he shall receaue giftes of the king.
[3]The wysdome of the phisition bringeth him to great worship, and in the sight of the great men of this worlde he shalbe honourably taken.
[4]The Lorde hath created medicine of the earth: and he that is wyse, wyll not abhorre it.
[5]Was not the bitter water made sweete with a tree, that men might learne to knowe the vertue thereof.
[6]The Lord hath geuen men wysdome and vnderstanding, that he might be honoured in his wonderous workes.
[7]With such doth he heale men, and taketh away their paynes:
[8]Of such doth the pothecarie make a confection, yet can no man perfourme al his workes: for of the Lorde commeth prosperous wealth ouer all the earth.
[9]My sonne, despise not this in thy sickenes: but pray vnto the Lorde, and he shall make thee whole.
[10]Leaue of from sinne, and order thy handes a right, clense thyne heart from all wickednesse.
[11]Geue a sweete sauoured offering, and the fine floure for a token of remembraunce: make the offering fat, as one that geueth the first fruites,
[12]And geue roome to the phisition, for the Lorde hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast neede of him.
[13]The houre may come, that the sicke may be helped through them,
[14]When they pray vnto the Lorde, that he may recouer and get health to lyue longer.
[15]He that sinneth before his maker, shall fall into the handes of the phisition.
[16]My sonne, bring foorth thy teares ouer the dead, and beginne to mourne as if thou haddest suffered great harme thy selfe: and then couer his body after a conuenient maner, and despise not his buriall.
[17]Enforce thy selfe to weepe, & prouoke thy selfe to mourne, and make lamentation expediently, and be earnest in mourning, and vse lamentation as he is worthie, and that a day or two, lest thou be euill spoken of: and then comfort thy selfe, because of the heauines.
[18]For of heauines commeth death, the heauines of the heart breaketh stregth.
[19]Heauines and pouertie, greeueth the heart in temptation and offence.
[20]Take no heauines to heart, driue it away, and remember the last thinges.
[21]Forget it not, for there is no turning againe, thou shalt do him no good, but hurt thy selfe.
[22]Remember his iudgement, thyne also shalbe lykewyse: vnto me yesterday, vnto thee to day.
[23]Let the remembraunce of the dead ceasse in his rest, & comfort thee againe ouer him, seing his spirite is departed from him.
[24]The wysdome of the scribe is at conuenient time of rest: and he that ceasseth from exercises and labour, shalbe wyse.
[25]How can he get wysdome that holdeth the plough, and he that hath pleasure in the goade and in driuing the oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and his talke is but of the breeding of bullockes?
[26]He setteth his heart to make forowes, and is diligent to geue the kine fodder.
[27]So is euery carpenter also and workmaister, that laboureth still night and day: he carueth, graueth, cutteth out, & his desire is insundry cunning thinges, his heart imagineth how he may cunningly cast an image, his diligence also and watching perfourmeth the worke.
[28]The iron smith in lyke maner bydeth by his stithie, and doth his diligence to labour the iron: the vapour of the fyre brenneth his fleshe, and he must fight with the heate of the fornace: the noyse of the hammer euer soundeth in his eares, and his eyes loke still vpon the thing that he maketh: he hath set his minde thereupon that he wyll make out his worke, & therefore he watcheth how he may set it out, and bring it to an ende.
[29]So doth the potter set by his worke: he turneth the wheele about with his feete, he is diligent and carefull in all doinges, and maketh his worke in number.
[30]He fashioneth the clay with his arme, and with his feete he tempereth it: his heart imagineth howe he may make it pleasaunt, and his diligence is to clense the ouen.
[31]All these hope in their handes, & euery one thinketh to be cunning in his worke.
[32]Without these may not the cities be mayntayned, inhabited, nor occupied:
[33]Yet come they not hye in the congregation, neither sit they vpon the iudgement seates: they vnderstand not the couenaunt of the lawe, they can not declare equitie and iudgement, they can not finde out the darke sentences.
[34]But through them shall the creature of the worlde be maintayned, their desire concerneth onely the worke and labour of cunning.
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