CHAP. XXXI.
Of couetousnes. 2 Of them that take 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to gather riches 8 The praise of a riche man without a faute. 12 We ought to flee 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and felowe sobernes.
1 WAking() 1.1 after riches pineth away the bodie, and the care thereof driueth a∣way slepe.
2 This waking care breaketh the slepe, as a great sickenes breaketh the slepe,
3 The riche hathe great labour in gathering riches together, & in his rest he is filled with pleasures.
4 The pore laboreth in liuing poorely, and when he leaueth of, he is stil poore.
5 He that loueth golde, shal not be iustified, & he that followeth corruption, shal haue y∣nough thereof.
6 * Many are destroied by the reason of gol∣de,* 1.2 and haue founde their destruction befo∣re them.
7 I is as a stumbling blocke vnto thē that sa∣crifice vnto it, and euerie foole is taken there with.
8 Blessed is the * riche which is founde with∣out* 1.3 blemish, and hathe not gone after golde, (nor hoped in money and treasures.)
9 Who is he, and we wil commende him? for wonderful things hathe he downe among his people.
10 Who hathe bene tryed thereby, & founde perfite? let him be an example of glorie, who might 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and hathe not offended, or do 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and hathe not done it.
11 Therefore shal his goods be stablished, and the congregation shal declare his almes.
12 If thou sit at a costlie table,() 1.4 open not thy mouth wide vpō it, & say not, Beholde much meat.
13 Remember that an euil eye is a shrewe: and what thing created is worse then a wicked eye? for it wepeth for euerie cause.
14 Stretch not thine hand where soeuer it lo∣keth, and thrust it not with it into the dish.
15 Consider by thy self him that is by thee, & marke 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thing.
16 〈◊〉〈◊〉 molestly that which is set before thee, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 not, lest thou be hated.
17 Leaue thou of first for nourtous sake, & be not 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 'est thou offend.
18 When thou sittest among many, teache not thine hand out first of all.
19 * How litle is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for a men wel taught* 1.5 and there by he belcheth not in his chamber [nor 〈◊〉〈◊〉 any paine]
20 A wholsome slepe cometh of a tēperat bel∣lie: he riseth vp in the mourning, and is wel at ease in him self: but paine in watching and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 diseases, and pangs of the bellie are with an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 man.
21 If thou hast bene forced to eat, arise, go for∣the, vomit, and then take thy rest: (so thou shalt bring no sickenes vnto thy bodie.)
22 My sonne, heare me, and dispise me not, and at the last thou 〈◊〉〈◊〉 finde as I haue tolde thee in all thy workes be quicke, so shal there no sicknes come vnto thee.
23 * Whoso is() 1.6 liberal in his meat, mē shal bles* 1.7 se him: & the testimonie of his honestie shal be beleued.
24 But against him that is a nigard of his meat, the whole citie shal murmure: the testimo∣nies of his nigardnes shalbe sure.
25 She we not thy valiantnes in wine: for* wine* 1.8 hathe destroyed manie.
26 The fornace proueth the edge in the tēpe∣ring: so doeth wine the hearts of the proude by drunkennes.* 1.9
27 * Wine soberly dronken, is profitable for the lift of man: what is his life that is ouer∣come* 1.10 with wine?
28 Wine was made (from the beginning) to ma ke men glad, (and not for drunkēnes.) Wine mesurably dronken & in time, bringeth glad nes and cherefulnes of the minde.
29 But wine drounken with excesse, maketh bitternes of minde with braulings and skoul dings.
30 Drunkennes increaseth the courage of a foole, til be offend: it diminisheth his strēgth and maketh woundes.
31 * Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, &* 1.11 dispise him not in his mirth: giue him no dispiteful wordes, and presse not vpon him