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For the neiybore of hem is strong, and he schal deme her cause ayens thee.

Nile thou withdrawe chastisyng fro a child; for thouy thou smyte hym with a yerde, he schal not die.

For thou schalt haue hope at the laste, and thin abidyng schal not be don awei.

For men yyuynge tent to drinkis, and yyuyng mussels togidere, schulen be waastid, and napping schal be clothid with clothis.

For an hoore is a deep diche, and an alien womman is a streit pit.

For the soule of hem bithenkith raueyns, and her lippis speken fraudis.

For whi batel is bigunnun with ordenaunce, and helthe schal be, where many counsels ben.

Mi sone, ete thou hony, for it is good; and an honycomb ful swete to thi throte.

For a iust man schal falle seuene sithis in the dai, and schal rise ayen; but wickid men schulen falle in to yuele.

For whi yuele men han not hope of thingis to comynge, and the lanterne of wickid men schal be quenchid.

For her perdicioun schal rise togidere sudenli, and who knowith the fal of euer either?

For it is betere, that it be seid to thee, Stie thou hidur, than that thou be maad low bifore the prince.

for thou schalt gadere togidere coolis on his heed; and the Lord schal yelde to thee.

For whi as a brid fliynge ouer to hiy thingis, and a sparowe goynge in to vncerteyn; so cursing brouyt forth with out resonable cause schal come aboue in to sum man.

Whanne he `makith low his vois, bileue thou not to hym; for seuene wickidnessis ben in his herte.

A man fillid schal dispise an hony coomb; but an hungri man schal take, yhe, bittir thing for swete.

Take thou awei his clooth, that bihiyte for a straunger; and take thou awei a wed fro hym for an alien man.

For thou schalt not haue power contynueli; but a coroun schal be youun to thee in generacioun and in to generacioun.

The mylke of geete suffice to thee for thi meetis; in to the necessarie thingis of thin hous, and to lijflode to thin handmaidis.

For the synnes of the lond ben many princis therof; and for the wisdom of a man, and for the kunnyng of these thingis that ben seid, the lijf of the duyk schal be lengere.