1   
A slouthful man is compared to a filthy stone, and euery one will hisse him out to his disgrace.

2   
A slouthfull man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: euery man that takes it vp, will shake his hand.

3   
An euill nurtured sonne is the dishonour of his father that begate him: and a [foolish] daughter is borne to his losse.

4   
^noteA wise daughter shall bring an ^note inheritance to her husband: but shee that liueth dishonestly, is her fathers heauinesse.

5   
Shee that is bold, dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

6   
A tale out of season [is as] musick in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisedome are neuer out of time.

7   
Who so teacheth a foole, is as one that gleweth a potsheard together, and as hee that waketh one from a sound sleepe.

8   
Hee that telleth a tale to a foole, speaketh to one in a slumber: when hee hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?

9   
If children liue honestly, and haue ^note wherwithall, they shall couer the basenesse of their parents.

10   
But children being haughtie through disdaine, and want of nurture, doe staine the nobilitie of their kinred.

11   
^noteWeepe for the dead, for hee hath lost the light: and weepe for the foole, for he wanteth vnderstanding: make litle weeping for the dead, for hee is at rest: but the life of the foole is worse then death.

12   
Seuen dayes doe men mourne for him that is dead; but for a foole, and an vngodly man, all the dayes of his life.

13   
Talke not much with a foole, and goe not to him that hath no vnderstanding, ^note beware of him lest thou haue trouble, and thou shalt neuer be defiled ^note with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, and neuer bee ^note disquieted with madnesse.

14   
What is heauier then lead? and what is the name thereof, but a foole?

15   
^noteSand, and salt, and a masse of yron is easier to beare then a man without vnderstanding.

16   
As timber girt and bound together in a building, cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by aduised counsel, shal feare at no time.

17   
A heart setled vpon a thought of vnderstanding, is as a faire plaistering ^note on the wall of a gallerie.

18   
Pales set on an high place will neuer stand against the wind: so a feareful heart in the imagination of a foole, can not stand against any feare.

19   
He that pricketh the eye, wil make teares to fall: and he that pricketh the heart, maketh it to shewe her knowledge.

20   
Who so casteth a stone at the birds, frayeth them away, and he that vpbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship.

21   
Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despaire not, for there way be a returning (to fauour.)

22   
If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, feare not, for there may be a reconciliation: except for vpbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets,

or a treacherous wound, for, for these things euery friend will depart.

23   
Be faithfull to thy neighbour in his pouertie, that thou mayest reioyce in his prosperitie: abide stedfast vnto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest bee heire with him in his heritage: for a meane estate is not alwayes to be contemned, nor the rich that is foolish, to be had in admiration.

24   
As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire: so reuiling before blood.

25   
I will not be ashamed to defend a friend: neither will I hide my selfe from him.

26   
And if any euill happen vnto me by him, euery one that heareth it will beware of him.

27   
^noteWho shall set a watch before my mouth, and a seale of wisedome vpon my lippes, that I fall not suddenly by them, ∧ that my tongue destroy me not? 1033

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