1   VVatching ^note after honestie shal pine the flesh, & the thought thereof ^note taketh away sleepe.

2   The thought of foreknowlege turneth away the vnderstanding, & greuous infirmitie maketh a sober soule.

3   The riche man hath laboured in gathering of substance together, & in his rest he shal be replenished with his goodes.

4   The poore man hath laboured in the diminishing of his liuing, and in the end he is made poore.

5   He that loueth gold shal not be iustified: & he that foloweth after corruption, shal be replenished of it.

6   Manie haue bene geuen into falles for gold, and their perdition hath come by the beautie thereof.

7   The gold of them that sacrifice is a wood of offence: wo to them, that folow after it, and euerie vnwise man shal perish in it.

8   Blessed is the rich man that is found without spot: and that hath not gone after gold, nor hoped in money and treasures.

9   Who is this, & we wil praise him, for he hath done meruelous thinges in his life.

10   Who is proued therin, & perfect, shal haue eternal glorie. He that ^note could transgresse, and hath not transgressed: and doe euils, and hath not done:

11   therfore are his good thinges stablished in our Lord, & al the church of saintes shal declare his almes.

12   Art thou set at a great table? open not thy iawe therevpon first.

13   Say not this: There be manie thinges which are vpon it.

14   Remember that a naughtie eie is euil.

15   What is created worse then the eie? therefore shal it weepe at euerie face. When it shal see,

16   stretch not out thy hand first, and so contaminated with enuie thou be ashamed.

17   Be not oppressed in a feast.

18   Vnderstand by thyself what thy neighbours thinges are.

19   Vse as a frugal man those thinges, that are set before thee: lest thou be hated when thou eatest much.

20   Leaue of first, for maners sake, and exceede not, lest thou perhaps offend.

21   And if thou be set in the middes of manie, stretch not forth thy hand before them: neither doe thou first aske to drinke.

22   How sufficient is a little wine for a man wel taught, and in sleeping thou shalt not be pained with it, and thou shalt feele no griefe.

23   Watching, & choler, & torment to an vnsatiable man:

24   sleepe of health is in a man of spare diet:

he shal sleepe vntil morning, and his soule with him shal be deligted.

25   And if thou hast bene forced with eating much, rise from the middes, and vomite, and it shal refresh thee, and thou shalt not bring infirmitie to thy bodie.

26   Heare me my sonne, and despise me not: and in the end thou shalt finde my wordes.

27   In al thy workes be quicke, and al infirmitie shal not chance vnto thee.

28   The lippes of manie shal blesse him that is magnifical in breads, and the testimonie of his truth is faithful.

29   In ^note naughtie bread the cittie wil murmur, and the testimonie of the naughtines thereof is true.

30   Prouoke not them that loue wine: for wine hath destroyed very manie.

31   Fire tryeth hard yron: so wine dronken in drunkennes shal rebuke the hartes of the proud.

32   Equal life to al men, wine in sobrietie: if thou drinke it moderatly, thou shalt be sober.

33   What is the life that is diminished with wine?

34   What defraudeth life? death.

35   Wine was created for ioyfulnes, and not for drunkenes from the beginning.

36   Wine drunken moderately is the ioy of the soule, and the hart.

37   Sober drinking is health to soule and bodie.

38   Much wine drunken maketh prouocation, & wrath, & manie ruines.

39   Much wine drunken is bitternes of the soule.

40   The couragiousnes of drunkennes, is offence of the vnwise, lessening the strength, and making woundes.

41   In a banquet of wine rebuke not thy neighbour: and despise him not in his mirth.

42   Speake nor to him wordes of repoch: and presse him not in demanding againe.

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