1Speke thou not ony thing folily, nether thin herte be swift to brynge forth a word bifore God; for God is in heuene, and thou art on erthe, therfor thi wordis be fewe.

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1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15, 1 John 5:14, 1 John 5:15, Psalms 54:2

2Dremes suen many bisynessis, and foli schal be foundun in many wordis.

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Psalms 65:2, Psalms 65:2, Psalms 3:4, Psalms 3:4, Isaiah 33:22

3If thou hast avowid ony thing to God, tarie thou not to yelde; for an vnfeithful and fonned biheest displesith hym; but `yelde thou what euer thing thou hast avowid;

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Psalms 119:147, Psalms 119:147, Psalms 88:13, Psalms 88:13, Mark 1:35

4and it is myche betere to make not a vowe, than aftir a vowe to yelde not biheestis.

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Psalms 11:5, Psalms 11:5, Hebrews 12:14, Hebrews 12:14, Psalms 50:21

5Yyue thou not thi mouth, that thou make thi fleisch to do synne; nether seie thou bifor an aungel, No puruyaunce is; lest perauenture the Lord be wrooth on thi wordis, and distruye alle the werkis of thin hondis.

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Psalms 11:5, Psalms 11:5, Hosea 9:15, Psalms 1:5, Hosea 9:15

6Where ben many dremes, ben ful many vanytees, and wordis with out noumbre; but drede thou God.

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Revelation 21:8, Psalms 55:23, Revelation 21:8, Psalms 55:23, Revelation 22:15

7If thou seest false chalengis of nedi men, and violent domes, and that riytfulnesse is distried in the prouynce, wondre thou not on this doyng; for another is hiyere than an hiy man, and also othere men ben more hiye aboue these men;

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Psalms 132:7, Psalms 138:2, Psalms 132:7, Psalms 138:2, Hebrews 4:16

8and ferthermore the kyng of al erthe comaundith to the seruaunt.

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Psalms 27:11, Psalms 27:11, Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:4

9An auerouse man schal not be fillid of monei; and he that loueth richessis schal not take fruytis of tho; and therfor this is vanyte.

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Romans 3:13, Romans 3:13, Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 9:6, Jeremiah 9:3

10Where ben many richessis, also many men ben, that eten tho; and what profitith it to the haldere, no but that he seeth richessis with hise iyen?

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Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 63:10, 2 Samuel 17:14, 2 Samuel 17:14, Psalms 71:13

11Slepe is swete to hym that worchith, whether he etith litil ether myche; but the fulnesse of a ryche man suffrith not hym to slepe.

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Romans 8:28, Romans 8:28, Revelation 19:1, Revelation 19:7, Revelation 19:1

12Also anothir sijknesse is ful yuel, which Y siy vndur the sunne; richessis ben kept in to the yuel of her lord.

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Psalms 84:11, Psalms 84:11, Psalms 32:10, Psalms 32:10, Psalms 115:13

13For thei perischen in the worste turment; he gendride a sone, that schal be in souereyn nedynesse.

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14As he yede nakid out of his modris wombe, so he schal turne ayen; and he schal take awei with hym no thing of his trauel.

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15Outirli it is a wretchid sijknesse; as he cam, so he schal turne ayen. What therfor profitith it to hym, that he trauelide in to the wynde?

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16In alle the daies of his lijf he eet in derknessis, and in many bisinessis, and in nedynesse, and sorewe.

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17Therfor this semyde good to me, that a man ete, and drynke, and vse gladnesse of his trauel, in which he trauelide vndir the sunne, in the noumbre of daies of his lijf, which God yaf to hym; and this is his part.

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18And to ech man, to whom God yaf richessis, and catel, and yaf power to hym to ete of tho, and to vse his part, and to be glad of his trauel; this is the yifte of God.

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19For he schal not bithenke miche on the daies of his lijf, for God ocupieth his herte with delicis.

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