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¹ Heare O ye chyldren a fatherly instruction, & take good heede, that ye may learne vnderstanding.² For I haue geuen you a good doctrine, forsake not ye my lawe.³ For when I my selfe was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother:⁴ He taught me also and sayde vnto me, let thyne heart receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes and thou shalt liue.⁵ Get thee wysdome, and get thee vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrinke not from them.⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee, loue her, and she shall kepe thee.⁷ The chiefe poynt of wysdome, is to possesse wysdome: and before all thy goodes to get thee vnderstanding.⁸ Make much of her, and she shall promote thee, yea if thou embrace her, she shall bryng thee vnto honour:⁹ She shal beautifie thy head with manyfolde graces, and garnishe thee with a crowne of glory.¹⁰ Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, and the yeres of thy life shalbe many.¹¹ I haue shewed thee the way of wysdome, & led thee into the right pathes.¹² So that if thou goest in them, there shall no straitnesse hinder thee: & when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.¹³ Take fast holde of doctrine, and let her not go: kepe her, for she is thy life.

¹⁴ Come not in the pathe of the vngodlye, and walke not in the way of the wicked:¹⁵ Abhorre it and go not therein, depart aside, and passe ouer by it.¹⁶ For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.¹⁷ For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie.¹⁸ The path of the righteous shineth, as the light that is euer bryghter and bryghter vnto the perfect day.¹⁹ But the way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse, they knowe not where they fall.

²⁰ My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges:²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes, but kepe them euen in the middest of thyne heart:²² For they are life vnto those that finde them, and health vnto all their bodyes.²³ Kepe thyne heart with all diligence, for out of it issueth lyfe.²⁴ Put away from thee a frowarde mouth, and let the lippes of slaunder be farre from thee.²⁵ Let thyne eyes beholde that thyng that is right, and let thyne eye liddes loke straight before thee.²⁶ Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy wayes be ordred aright.²⁷ Turne not aside, neither to the right hande nor to the left: but wihholde thy foote from euyll.