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he is euer ymageninge myschefe & frowardnesse in his hert, & causeth discorde.

Therfore shal his destruccion come hastely vpo him, sodenly shal he be all tobroken, and not be healed.

An harlot wil make a ma to begg his bred, but a maried woman wil hunt for ye precious life.

Maye a man take fyre in his bosome, and his clothes not be brent?

Or can one go vpon hote coales, and his fete not be hurte?

Euen so, who so euer goeth in to his neghbours wife, and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.

Men do not vtterly despyse a thefe, that stealeth to satisfie his soule, when he is hongerie:

but yf he maye be gotten, he restoreth agayne seuen tymes asmoch, or els he maketh recompence with all the good of his house.

But who so comitteth aduoutrie with a woma, he is a foole, and bryngeth his life to destruccion.

so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo.

The LORDE himself had me in possessio in the begynnynge of his wayes, or euer he begame his workes aforetyme.

As for the roude copase of his worlde, I make it ioyfull, for my delyte is to be amoge the children of men.

But who so offendeth agaynst me, hurteth his owne soule. All they that hate me, are the louers of death.

These are prouerbes of Salomon. A wyse sonne maketh a glad father, but an vndiscrete sonne is the heuynesse of his mother.

The LORDE wil not let the soule of the rightuous suffre hoger, but he putteth ye vngodly fro his desyre.

He yt wynketh with his eye, wil do some harme: but he that hath a foolish mouth, shalbe beaten.

The rich mas goodes are his stroge holde, but pouerte oppresseth the poore.

The rightuous laboureth to do good, but the vngodly vseth his increase vnto synne.

Where moch bablinge is, there must nedes be offence: he that refrayneth his lippes, is wysest of all.

The rightuousnes of ye innocent ordreth his waye, but the vngodly shal fall in his owne wickednesse.