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¹ Watching for riches, consumeth the flesh, and the care therof driueth away sleepe.

² Watching care will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaketh sleepe.

³ The rich hath great labour in gathering riches together, and when he resteth, he is filled with his delicates.

⁴ The poore laboureth in his poore estate, and when he leaueth off, hee is still needie.

⁵ He that loueth gold shall not bee iustified, and he that followeth corruption, shall haue enough thereof.

⁶ Gold hath bin the ruine of many, and their destruction was present.

⁷ It is a stumbling block vnto them that sacrifice vnto it, and euery foole shall be taken therewith.

⁸ Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, and hath not gone after gold:

⁹ Who is he? and we will call him blessed: for wonderfull things hath hee done among his people.

¹⁰ Who hath bene tried thereby, and found perfit? then let him glory. Who might offend and hath not offended, or done euill, and hath not done it?

¹¹ His goods shall be established, and the congregatiō shall declare his almes.

¹² If thou sit at a bountifull table, bee not greedy vpon it, and say not, There is much meate on it.

¹³ Remember that a wicked eye is an euill thing: and what is created more wicked then an eye? therefore it weepeth vpon euery occasion.

¹⁴ Stretch not thine hand whithersoeuer it looketh, and thrust it not with him into the dish.

¹⁵ Iudge of thy neighbour by thy selfe: and be discreet in euery point.

¹⁶ Eate as it becommeth a man those things which are set before thee: and deuoure not, lest thou be hated.

¹⁷ Leaue off first for maners sake, and be not vnsatiable, lest thou offend.

¹⁸ When thou sittest among many, reach not thine hand out first of all.

¹⁹ A very litle is sufficient for a man well nurtured, and he fetcheth not his wind short vpon his bed.

²⁰ Sound sleepe commeth of moderate eating: he riseth early, and his wits are with him, but the paine of watching and choller, and pangs of the bellie are with an vnsatiable man.

²¹ And if thou hast bin forced to eate, arise, goe forth, vomit, and thou shalt haue rest.

²² My sonne, heare me, and despise me not, and at the last thou shalt finde as I told thee: in all thy workes bee quicke, so shall there no sickenesse come vnto thee.

²³ Who so is liberall of his meat, men shall speake well of him, and the report of his good housekeeping will be beleeued.

²⁴ But against him that is a niggard of his meate, the whole citie shall murmure; and the testimonies of his niggardnesse shall not be doubted of.

²⁵ Shew not thy valiantnesse in wine, for wine hath destroyed many.

²⁶ The furnace prooueth the edge by dipping: so doth wine the hearts of the proud by drunkennesse.

²⁷ Wine is as good as life to a man if it be drunke moderatly: what life is then to a man that is without wine? for it was made to make men glad.

²⁸ Wine measurably drunke, and in season, bringeth gladnesse of the heart and cheerefulnesse of the minde.

²⁹ But wine drunken with excesse, maketh bitternesse of the minde, with brawling and quarreling.

³⁰ Drunkennesse increaseth the rage of a foole till he offend, it diminisheth strength, and maketh wounds.

³¹ Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: giue him no despitefull words, and presse not vpon him with vrging him (to drinke.)

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