Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XXXI.
An exhortation to chastitie, temperance, 8. and to workes of mercie. 10. with
praise of a valiant wise woman.
1 The note wordes of Lamuel the king. The vision wherwith
his mother instructed him.
2 What ô my beloued, what ô
the beloued of my wombe, what ô beloued of my vowes?
3 Geue not thy substance to wemen, & thy riches to destroy
kinges.
4 Geue not to kinges, ô Lamuel, geue not wine to
kinges: because there is no secrete where drunknes reigneth
5 & lest perhaps they drinke, & forget iudgements, & change
the cause of the children of the poore.
6 Geue strong drinke to
them that be sad, and wine vnto them, that are of a pensiue
minde:
7 let them drinke, and forget their pouertie, and not
remember their sorow any more.
8 Open thy mouth to note the
dumme, & to the causes of al the children that passe:
9 open thy
mouth, note decree that which is iust, & iudge the needie & poore.
10 09Q0292A valiant woman note who shal finde? far, and from the
vtmost borders is the price of her.
11 The hart of her husband
trusteth in her, and he shal not neede spoyles.
12 She shal
render good, and not euil, al the dayes of her life.
13 She hath
sought wool and flaxe, and hath wrought by the counsel of
her handes.
14 She is become as a marchants shippe, bringing
her bread from farre.
15 And she hath risen in the night, and
geuen pray to her houshold, and meates to her handmaides.
16 She hath vewed a filde, and bought it, of the fruite of her
handes she hath planted a vineyard.
17 She hath gyrded her
loines with strength, and hath strengthened her arme.
18 She
hath tasted, and sene that her traficke is good: her lampe shal
not be extinguished in the night.
19 She hath put her hand to
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strong thinges, and her fingers haue taken hold of note the
spindle.
20 She hath opened her hand to the needie, and
stretched out her palmes to the poore.
21 She shal not feare
for her house in the coldes of snow: for al her houshould
are clothed with duble.
22 Tapestrie clothing she hath made
to herself: silke, and purple is her garment.
23 Her husband
is noble in the gates, when he shal sitte with the senatours of
the land.
24 She note made sindon, and sold it, and deliuered a
girdle to the Chananeite.
25 Strength and beautie is her
garment, and she shal laugh in the later day.
26 She hath
opened her mouth to wisedom, and the law of clemencie is in
her tongue.
27 She hath considered the pathes of her house,
and hath not eaten her bread idle.
28 Her children arose, and
commended her to be most blessed: her husband, and he
praysed her.
29 Manie daughters haue gathered together
riches: thou hast passed them al.
30 noteGrace is deceitful, and
beautie is vayne: the woman that feareth our Lord shal be
praysed.
31 Geue ye to her note of the fruite of her handes: and
let her workes praise her note in the gates.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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