1Flies `that dien, leesen the swetnesse of oynement. Litil foli at a tyme is preciousere than wisdom and glorie.

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Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:1, Psalms 27:9, Psalms 27:9, Psalms 13:1

2The herte of a wijs man is in his riyt side; and the herte of a fool is in his left side.

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Psalms 59:12, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 36:11, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 36:11

3But also a fool goynge in the weie, whanne he is vnwijs, gessith alle men foolis.

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Psalms 94:4, Psalms 94:4, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:19, Zechariah 11:5

4If the spirit of hym, that hath power, stieth on thee, forsake thou not thi place; for heeling schal make gretteste synnes to ceesse.

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Psalms 14:1, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 14:1, Psalms 14:2, Acts 8:22

5An yuel is, which Y siy vndur the sunne, and goith out as bi errour fro the face of the prince; a fool set in hiy dignyte,

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Isaiah 26:11, Isaiah 26:11, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 92:6

6and riche men sitte bynethe.

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Matthew 24:48, Ecclesiastes 8:11, Isaiah 56:12, Matthew 24:48, Ecclesiastes 8:11

7I siy seruauntis on horsis, and princes as seruauntis goynge on the erthe.

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Psalms 7:14, Psalms 7:14, Job 20:12, Job 20:12, Psalms 73:8

8He that diggith a diche, schal falle in to it; and an eddre schal bite hym, that distrieth an hegge.

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Habakkuk 3:14, Habakkuk 3:14, 1 Samuel 22:18, Jeremiah 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:18

9He that berith ouer stoonys, schal be turmentid in tho; and he that kittith trees, schal be woundid of tho.

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Psalms 17:12, Psalms 17:12, Psalms 59:3, Psalms 59:3, Micah 7:2

10If yrun is foldid ayen, and this is not as bifore, but is maad blunt, it schal be maad scharp with myche trauel; and wisdom schal sue aftir bisynesse.

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1 Samuel 23:21, 1 Samuel 23:22, 1 Samuel 23:21, 1 Samuel 23:22, 1 Samuel 18:21

11If a serpent bitith, it bitith in silence; he that bacbitith priueli, hath no thing lesse than it.

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Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 8:12, Psalms 94:7, Psalms 94:7, Psalms 73:11

12The wordis of the mouth of a wijs man is grace; and the lippis of an vnwijs man schulen caste hym doun.

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Micah 5:9, Micah 5:9, Psalms 9:12, Psalms 9:12, Isaiah 33:10

13The bigynnyng of hise wordis is foli; and the laste thing of his mouth is the worste errour.

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Luke 10:16, Psalms 74:10, Genesis 9:5, Psalms 74:18, 2 Samuel 12:9

14A fool multiplieth wordis; a man noot, what was bifore hym, and who mai schewe to hym that, that schal come aftir hym?

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Psalms 68:5, Psalms 68:5, Psalms 146:9, Psalms 146:9, Hosea 14:3

15The trauel of foolis shal turment hem, that kunnen not go in to the citee.

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Zephaniah 1:12, Zephaniah 1:12, Job 38:15, Psalms 37:17, Job 38:15

16Lond, wo to thee, whos kyng is a child, and whose princes eten eerli.

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1 Timothy 1:17, Psalms 29:10, 1 Timothy 1:17, Psalms 29:10, Jeremiah 10:10

17Blessid is the lond, whos kyng is noble; and whose princis eten in her tyme, to susteyne the kynde, and not to waste.

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Psalms 145:19, Psalms 145:19, 2 Chronicles 34:27, 2 Chronicles 34:27, Psalms 34:15

18The hiynesse of housis schal be maad low in slouthis; and the hous schal droppe in the feblenesse of hondis.

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Psalms 9:9, Psalms 82:3, Psalms 9:9, Psalms 82:3, Isaiah 11:4

19In leiyyng thei disposen breed and wyn, that thei drynkynge ete largeli; and alle thingis obeien to monei.

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20In thi thouyt bacbite thou not the kyng, and in the priuete of thi bed, curse thou not a riche man; for the briddis of heuene schulen bere thi vois, and he that hath pennys, schal telle the sentence.

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