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Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.

He that loueth pleasure, shall be a poore man: hee that loueth wine and oyle, shall not be rich.

Be not amongst wine-bibbers; amongst riotous eaters of flesh.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath rednesse of eyes?

They that tarry long at the wine, they that goe to seeke mixt wine.

Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is red, when it giueth his colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall vtter peruerse things.

Yea thou shalt be as he that lyeth downe in the midst of the sea, or as he that lyeth vpon the top of a mast.

They haue striken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sicke: they haue beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seeke it yet againe.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drinke wine, nor for Princes, strong drinke:

Lest they drinke, and forget the Law, and peruert the iudgement of any of the afflicted.

Giue strong drinke vnto him that is ready to perish, and wine vnto those that be of heauie hearts.

Let him drinke, and forget his pouertie, and remember his misery no more.