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For the hatefull woman, when she is married, & for a handmaid that is heire to her mistres.

It is not for Kings, O Lemuel, it is not for Kings to drink wine nor for princes strog drinke,

Open thy mouth for the domme in the cause of all the children of destruction.

Who shall finde a vertuous woman? for her price is farre aboue the pearles.

She feareth not the snowe for her familie: for all her familie is clothed with skarlet.

One generation passeth, and another generation succeedeth: but the earth remaineth for euer.

All the riuers goe into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the riuers goe vnto ye place, whence they returne, and goe.

For in the multitude of wisedome is much griefe: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorowe.

And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile.

And I turned to beholde wisedome, and madnes and follie: (for who is the man that will come after the King in things, which men nowe haue done?)

For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.

For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten. And howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?

Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.

For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?

For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.

For who could eate, and who could haste to outward things more then I?

I knowe that whatsoeuer God shall doe, it shalbe for euer: to it can no man adde, and from it can none diminish: for God hath done it, that they should feare before him.

What is that that hath bene? that is nowe: and that that shalbe, hath now bene: for God requireth that which is past.

I thought in mine heart, God wil iudge the iust and the wicked: for time is there for euery purpose and for euery worke.