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My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not.

If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:

Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:

Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile:

Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse:

My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path:

For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.

Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.

So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is as a troubled fountaine, aud a corrupt spring.

A stone is heauie, and the sand weightie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both.

Who so causeth the righteous to goe astray in an euill way, he shall fall himselfe into his owne pit: but the vpright shall haue good things in possession.