📖 Proverbs 9
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Wysdome hath buylded herself an house, and hewen out seuen pilers:
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she hath slaughted, poured out hir wyne, and prepared hir table.
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She hath sent forth hir maydens to crie vpo the hyest place of the cite:
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Who so is ignoraut, let him come hither. And to the vn wise she sayde:
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O come on youre waye, eate my bred, and drynke my wyne, which I haue poured out for you.
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Forsake ignorauce, and ye shal lyue: and se that ye go in the waye of vnderstondinge.
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Who so reproueth a scornefull personne, getteth him self dishonoure: and he that rebuketh the vngodly, stayneth himself.
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Reproue not a scorner, lest he owe the euell wil: but rebuke a wyse man, and he wil loue the.
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Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.
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The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome, & the knowlege of holy thinges is vnderstondinge.
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For thorow me yi dayes shalbe prolonged, and the yeares of thy life shal be many.
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Yf thou be wyse, yi wysdome shal do yi selfe good: but yf thou thynkest scorne therof, it shalbe thine owne harme.
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A foolish restlesse woman, full of wordes, and soch one as hath no knowlege,
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sytteth in the dores of hir house vpo a stole aboue in the cite,
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to call soch as go by and walke straight in their wayes.
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Who so is ignoraunt (sayeth she) let him come hither, and to the vnwyse she sayeth:
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stollen waters are swete, & the bred that is preuely eaten, hath a good taist.
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But they cosider not that death is there, and that hir gestes go downe to hell.