The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

¶ CAPI. XXVII. [unspec A]

MAke nat thy boste of to morowe * 1.1 for y^u knowest not what may happen to day Let another man prayse the, and not thyne owne mouthe: yea other folkes lyppes, and

not thyne. The stone is heuy and the sande weyghtye: but a foles wrath is heuyer then they bothe. Wrathe is a cruell thynge, and furiousnes is a very tempest: yea who is a∣ble to abyde enuye? An open rebuke is bet¦ter then a secrete loue. Faythfull are the woundes of a louer, but the kysses of an ene¦mye are cruel. He that is ful, abhorreth an [unspec B] hony combe: but vnto him that is hongrye, euery sowre thynge is swete. He that ofte∣tymes flitteth, is lyke a byrde that forsaketh her nest. The herte is glad of a swete oynt mente and fauour, but a stomake that can gyue good councel, reioyseth a mans neygh¦bour. Thine owne frende and thy fathers frende se thou forsake nat: but go nat into thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble.

For better is a frende at bande / then a brother farre of. My sonne, be wyse, and thou shalte make me a glad herte: so that I shall make answere vnto my rebukers.

A wyse man seynge the plage / wyll hyde hym selfe, as for fooles they go on styll, and suffre harme. * 1.2 Take his garmente that is suretie for a straunger, and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen mans sake.

He that is to hastye to prayse his neygh∣boure [unspec C] aboue measure / shall be taken as one that gyueth hym an euyll reporte. * 1.3 A brau∣lyng woman and the rofe of the house drop¦pynge in a taynye daye, maye well be com∣pared togyther. He that refrayneth her / refrayneth the wynde, and holdeth oyle fast in his hande. Lyke as one yron whetteth another, so doth one man comforte another

Who so kepeth his fygge tre, shall enioye the fruites thereof: euen so, he that wayteth vpon his mayster, shall come to honoure.

Lyke as in one water there appeare dy∣uers faces / euen so dyuerse men haue dy∣uerse hertes. Lyke as ☞ hell and de∣struccyon are neuer full, euen so * 1.4 the eyes of men can neuer be satisfyed. Syluer is tryed in the moulde, and Golde in the for∣nace / and so is a man, when he is openly praysed to his face. {fleur-de-lys} The hart of a wycked man seketh after myschefe, but a true harte se∣keth [unspec D] for knowledge.) Thoughe thou shuldest bray a foole with a pestell in a morter lyke otemell, yet wyll nat his foolyshenesse go from hym. Se that thou knowe the nom∣bre of thy cattell thy selfe / and loke well to thy flockes. For ryches abyde nat alwaye and ☞ the crowne endureth not for euer.

The heye groweth, the grasse commeth vp, and herbes are gathered in the moun∣taynes. The lambes shall clothe the, and for the goates thou shalt haue money to thy husbandry. Thou shalt haue goates mylck ynough to fede the / to vphold thy houshold and to susteyne thy maydens.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Luke. 2. c. Ezec. 28. •• Iames. 4 b
• * 1.2

  Prouit. x. c
• * 1.3

  Prou. xix. b
• * 1.4

  Eccle. 1. a. Eccle. 14. a and. xxvii. c