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.

IAMES 1.

IF any of you lacke wisedom, let him aske of God which geueth to all men indifferently, and casteth no man in the teeth: and it shall be geuen him.

VVIS. 9.

The prayer of Salomon to obtayne wisedom.

O God of my fathers, and Lord of mercies, thou that hast made all thinges with thy word, and ordayned man thorough thy wisedom, that he shoulde haue dominion ouer the creatures which thou hast made: that he should order the world ac∣cording to equitie and righteousnes, and execute iudgement with a true heart: geue me wisedome which is euer about thy seate, and put me not out from among thy children: for I thy seruaunt and sonne of thy handmaiden, am a feeble person, of a short time, and too yong to the vnderstanding of iudgement & the lawes. And though a man be ne∣uer so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisedome be not with him, he shall be nothing regarded. O send her out of thy holy heauens, and from the throne of thy Maiestie, that she may be with me and labour with me: that I may knowe what is acceptable in thy sight, for she knoweth & vnderstandeth all thinges: and she shall leade me soberly in my workes, and preserue me in her pow∣er, so shall my workes be acceptable.

AMEN.