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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- 1577.
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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 3, 2024.
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wine, leaueth dishonesty in his owne dwel∣ling.
Wine maketh a man to be scornfull, and strong drinke causeth a man to be vnquiet: whoso deliteth therein shall neuer be wise.
Who hath woe? who hath sorow? who hath strife? who hath brauling? and who hath woundes without cause? or who hath redde eyes? euen they that be euer at the wine and seeke excesse.
Looke not thou vpon the wine howe red it is, and what a colour it geueth in the glasse. It goeth downe softly, but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.
Geue strong drinke vnto such as are con∣demned to death, and wine vnto those that mourne: that they may drinke it and forget their misery and aduersitie.
Wine soberly drunken quickeneth the life of man. If thou drinkest it measurably, thou shalt be temperate. What life is it that may continue without wine? What taketh away life? euen death. Wyne was made from the beginning to make him glad, and not for drunkennes. Wine measurably drū∣ken, is a reioycing of the soule & body: but if it be drunken with excesse, it maketh bit∣ternesse
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Notes
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Pro. 23. 29.
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Prou. 20. 1.
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Pro. 23. 29. 30.
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Pro. 23. 31.
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Prou. 31. 6.
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Ecclesiasti∣cus 31. 27. 28. 29.
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Ecclesiasti∣cus 40. 20.