The vvell of wisedome, conteining chiefe and chosen sayinges vvhiche may leade all men to perfect and true vvisedome, as vvell to Godvvard as to the vvorlde Gathered out of the five bookes of the olde testament, especially belonging to vvisedome, that is to say, the prouerbes of Salomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticum, Sapientia and Ecclesiasticus, and bestowed in usuall common places in order of A. B. C. By T. C.
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- The vvell of wisedome, conteining chiefe and chosen sayinges vvhiche may leade all men to perfect and true vvisedome, as vvell to Godvvard as to the vvorlde Gathered out of the five bookes of the olde testament, especially belonging to vvisedome, that is to say, the prouerbes of Salomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticum, Sapientia and Ecclesiasticus, and bestowed in usuall common places in order of A. B. C. By T. C.
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- Imprinted at London :: By Thomas Vautroullier for VVilliam Norton,
- 1577.
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- Bible. -- O.T. -- Selections -- Early works to 1800.
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"The vvell of wisedome, conteining chiefe and chosen sayinges vvhiche may leade all men to perfect and true vvisedome, as vvell to Godvvard as to the vvorlde Gathered out of the five bookes of the olde testament, especially belonging to vvisedome, that is to say, the prouerbes of Salomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticum, Sapientia and Ecclesiasticus, and bestowed in usuall common places in order of A. B. C. By T. C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19071.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- TO THE WORSHIPFVL M. NEVVELL SOTHERTON, CLERKE OF THEXTRETES OF the Queenes Maiesties Court of Exchequer: grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Ie∣sus Christ.
- THE PREFACE to the Reader.
- epigraph
- ADVERSITIE AND prosperitie.
- Aduoutrie.
- Age.
- Almes.
- Ambition.
- Battayle.
- Bevvtie.
- Boasting and presumption.
- City.
- Company.
- Communication or talke.
- Constancy.
- Correction.
- Countenaunce.
- Counsayle and counsellers.
- Couetousnesse, looke liberalitie.
- Curiositie.
- Daughter.
- Death.
- Delicate liuing.
- Diet.
- Dissembling.
- Doings of men, looke good men.
- Dreames.
- Drunkennesse, looke more in vvine.
- Enemie, looke more in loue and euill vvill.
- Father and mother.
- Feare of the Lord.
- Folly.
- Fortune commonly called in deede nothing else but the prouidence of God.
- Friendship.
- Giftes or revvardes.
- God.
- Good men and euill.
- Health and sicknesse.
- Hovvse and husbandry.
- Housevvife.
- Iudge and iudgement.
- Knovvledge and learning.
- King or Prince.
- Labour, looke more in slouthfulnesse.
- Lavve of God and man.
- Lending and borovving.
- Liberalitie.
- Loue and euill vvill.
- Liuing.
- Maners.
- Marchaunt.
- Measure and weight.
- Mercy.
- Myrth and ioye.
- Name or fame.
- Neighbour.
- Obedience and rule.
- Pacience.
- Pouertie.
- Prayse.
- Prayer.
- Priestes.
- Phisician and Phisike.
- Pride and lowlinesse.
- Richesse.
- Seruaunt.
- Shame, whereof we ought to be ashamed and whereof not.
- Sonne, and the dutie of children tovvard their parentes.
- Sclaunder.
- Sluggishnes and idlenes.
- Strife or discorde.
- Suertishippe.
- Swearing.
- Tyme.
- Truth and lying.
- Vanitie of the world.
- Wife, good.
- Wife, euill.
- Wyne.
- Wisedom, whereof you may read at large 1. 2. 4. 8. 9. of Pro.
- Wrath or anger
- Witnesse.
- THE CONCLVSION of the Booke.
- A TABLE OF THE COM∣MON PLACES.
- colophon