that communeth with all, is a scourage of the tongue.
7 An euil wife is as a yoke of oxen that drawe diuerse waies: he that hathe her, is as thogh he helde a scorpion.
8 A drunken woman and suche as can not be tamed, is a great plague for she can not couer her owne shame.
9 The whordome of a woman may be knowē in the pride of her eyes, and eyelid des.
10 ¶*If thy daughter be not shamefast, holde her straitly, lest she abuse her self thoro we o∣uer muche libertie.
11 Take hede of her that hathe an vnshamefast eye, and marueile not if she trespace against thee.
12 As one that goeth by the way, and is thirstie so shal she open her mouth, and drinke of euerie next water: by euerie hedge shal she sitte downe, and open her quiuer against eue rie arowe,
13 The grace of a wife reioyceth her housbād and fedeth his bones with her vnderstan∣ding.
14 A peaceable woman and of a good heart is a gift of the Lord, and there is nothing so mn che worthe as a woman wel instructed.
15 A shamefast and faithful woman is a double grace, & there is no weight to be compared vnto her continent minde.
16 As the sunne when it ariseth in the high pla∣ces of the LORDE, so is the beautie of a good wife the ornament of her house.
17 As the clere lyght is vpon the holie can∣dlesticke, so is the beautie of the face in a ripe age.
18 As the golden pillers are vpon the socket∣tes of siluer: so are faire fete with a constant minde.
19 (Perpetual are the fundacions that be laide vpō a strong rocke: so are the cōmandemēts of God in the heart of an holie woman.)
20 My sonne, kepe the strēgth of thine age sta ble, and giue not thy strength to strangers.
21 When thou hast gottē a fruteful possession through al the fields, so we it with thine own sede, trusting in thy nobilitie.
22 So thy stocke that shalliue after thee, shall grow, trusting in the great liberalitie of their nobilitie.
23 An harlot is compared to a sowe: but the wife that is maried, is counted as a towrea∣gainst death to her housband.
24 A wicked woman is giuen as a rewarde to a wicked man: but a godlie woman is giuen to him that feareth the Lord.
25 A shameles woman contemneth shame: but a shame fast woman wil reuerence her hous∣band.
26 A shameles womā is cōpared to a dog: but she that is shamefast, reuerēceth the Lord.
27 A woman that honoreth her housband, shal be iudged wise of all: but she that despiseth him, shalbe blased for her pride.
28 Alowde crying woman and a babler let her be soght out to driue away the enemies: the minde of euerie man that liueth with suche, shalbe conuersant among the troubles of warre.
29 Therebe two things that grieue mine heart, and the thirde maketh me angrie, a man of warre that suffreth pouertie: and men of vn∣derstanding that are not set by: and whē one departeth from righteousnes vnto sinne: the Lord appointeth suche to the sworde.
30 [There be two things, which me thinke to be hard and perilous.] A marchant can not lightly kepe him from wrong, and a vitailer is not without sinne.