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Verse 1

Doth not wysdome crie? doth not vnderstondinge put forth hir voyce?

Verse 2

Stondeth she not in the hye places in the stretes & wayes?

Verse 3

doth she not crie before the whole cite, & in the gates where men go out & in?

Verse 4

It is you, o ye men (sayeth she) whom I call. Unto you (o ye childre of me) lift I vp my voyce.

Verse 5

Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles.

Verse 6

Geue eare, for I wil speake of greate matters, & open my lippes to tell thinges that be right.

Verse 7

For my throte shal be talkynge of ye trueth, & my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse.

Verse 8

All the wordes of my mouth are rightuous, there is no frowardnesse ner falsede therin.

Verse 9

They are all playne to soch as wil vnderstode, & right to the that fynde knowlege.

Verse 10

Receaue my doctryne therfore and not syluer, & knowlege more then fyne golde.

Verse 11

For wysdome is more worth then precious stones, yee all the thinges that thou cast desyre, are not to be compared vnto it.

Verse 12

I wysdome haue my dwellynge wt knowlege, and prudent councell is myne owne.

Verse 13

With me is the feare of the LORDE, and ye eschuynge of euell. As for pryde, disdayne, an euell waye, & a mouth that speaketh wicked thiges, I vtterly abhorre the.

Verse 14

I can geue councell, and be a gyde: I haue vnderstondinge, I haue strength.

Verse 15

Thorow me, kynges reigne: thorow me, prices make iust lawes.

Verse 16

Thorow me, lordes beare rule, and all iudges of ye earth execute iudgmet.

Verse 17

I am louynge vnto those that loue me, and they that seke me early, shal fynde me.

Verse 18

Riches & honoure are wt me, yee excellent goodes & rightuousnes.

Verse 19

My frute is better the golde & precious stone, & myne encrease more worth then fyne syluer.

Verse 20

I walke in ye waye of rightuousnes, & in the strete of iudgment.

Verse 21

That I maye sende prosperite to those that loue me, & to encrease their treasure.

Verse 22

The LORDE himself had me in possessio in the begynnynge of his wayes, or euer he begame his workes aforetyme.

Verse 23

I haue bene ordened fro euerlastige, & fro ye beginnynge or euer the earth was made.

Verse 24

When I was borne, there were nether depthes ner springes of water.

Verse 25

Before the foundacions of ye mountaynes were layed, yee before all hilles was I borne.

Verse 26

The earth and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the grounde it self.

Verse 27

For when he made the heauens, I was present: wha he set the depthes in ordre:

Verse 28

whan he hanged the cloudes aboue: whan he fastened the sprynges of the depe:

Verse 29

Whan he shutt the see within certayne bowndes, that ye waters shulde not go ouer their marckes. When he layed the foundacions of the earth,

Verse 30

I was with him, ordringe all thinges, delytinge daylie & reioysynge allwaye before him.

Verse 31

As for the roude copase of his worlde, I make it ioyfull, for my delyte is to be amoge the children of men.

Verse 32

Therfore harken vnto me (o ye children) for blessed are they that kepe my wayes.

Verse 33

O geue eare vnto nurtoure, be wyse, and refuse it not.

Verse 34

Blessed is ye man that heareth me, watchinge daylie at my gates, & geuynge attendaunce at the postes of my dores.

Verse 35

For who so fyndeth me, fyndeth life, and shal optayne fauoure of the LORDE.

Verse 36

But who so offendeth agaynst me, hurteth his owne soule. All they that hate me, are the louers of death.

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