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PROVERBS
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Chapter 23
Prov Wycliffe 23:1  Whanne thou sittist, to ete with the prince, perseyue thou diligentli what thingis ben set bifore thi face,
Prov Wycliffe 23:2  and sette thou a withholding in thi throte. If netheles thou hast power on thi soule,
Prov Wycliffe 23:3  desire thou not of his metis, in whom is the breed of `a leesing.
Prov Wycliffe 23:4  Nyle thou trauele to be maad riche, but sette thou mesure to thi prudence.
Prov Wycliffe 23:5  Reise not thin iyen to richessis, whiche thou maist not haue; for tho schulen make to hem silf pennes, as of an egle, and tho schulen flee in to heuene.
Prov Wycliffe 23:6  Ete thou not with an enuyouse man, and desire thou not hise metis;
Prov Wycliffe 23:7  for at the licnesse of a fals dyuynour and of a coniectere, he gessith that, that he knowith not. He schal seie to thee, Ete thou and drinke; and his soule is not with thee.
Prov Wycliffe 23:8  Thou schalt brake out the metis, whiche thou hast ete; and thou schalt leese thi faire wordis.
Prov Wycliffe 23:9  Speke thou not in the eeris of vnwise men; for thei schulen dispise the teching of thi speche.
Prov Wycliffe 23:10  Touche thou not the termes of litle children; and entre thou not in to the feeld of fadirles and modirles children.
Prov Wycliffe 23:11  For the neiybore of hem is strong, and he schal deme her cause ayens thee.
Prov Wycliffe 23:12  Thin herte entre to techyng, and thin eeris `be redi to the wordis of kunnyng.
Prov Wycliffe 23:13  Nile thou withdrawe chastisyng fro a child; for thouy thou smyte hym with a yerde, he schal not die.
Prov Wycliffe 23:14  Thou schalt smyte hym with a yerde, and thou schalt delyuere his soule fro helle.
Prov Wycliffe 23:15  Mi sone, if thi soule is wijs, myn herte schal haue ioye with thee;
Prov Wycliffe 23:16  and my reynes schulen make ful out ioye, whanne thi lippis speken riytful thing.
Prov Wycliffe 23:17  Thin herte sue not synneris; but be thou in the drede of the Lord al dai.
Prov Wycliffe 23:18  For thou schalt haue hope at the laste, and thin abidyng schal not be don awei.
Prov Wycliffe 23:19  Mi sone, here thou, and be thou wijs, and dresse thi soule in the weie.
Prov Wycliffe 23:20  Nyle thou be in the feestis of drinkeris, nether in the ofte etyngis of hem, that bryngen togidere fleischis to ete.
Prov Wycliffe 23:21  For men yyuynge tent to drinkis, and yyuyng mussels togidere, schulen be waastid, and napping schal be clothid with clothis.
Prov Wycliffe 23:22  Here thi fadir, that gendride thee; and dispise not thi modir, whanne sche is eld.
Prov Wycliffe 23:23  Bie thou treuthe, and nyle thou sille wisdom, and doctryn, and vndurstonding.
Prov Wycliffe 23:24  The fadir of a iust man ioieth ful out with ioie; he that gendride a wijs man, schal be glad in hym.
Prov Wycliffe 23:25  Thi fadir and thi modir haue ioye, and he that gendride thee, make ful out ioye.
Prov Wycliffe 23:26  My sone, yyue thin herte to me, and thin iyen kepe my weyes.
Prov Wycliffe 23:27  For an hoore is a deep diche, and an alien womman is a streit pit.
Prov Wycliffe 23:28  Sche settith aspie in the weie, as a theef; and sche schal sle hem, whiche sche schal se vnwar.
Prov Wycliffe 23:29  To whom is wo? to whos fadir is wo? to whom ben chidingis? to whom ben dichis? to whom ben woundis with out cause? to whom is puttyng out of iyen?
Prov Wycliffe 23:30  Whether not to hem, that dwellen in wyn, and studien to drynke al of cuppis?
Prov Wycliffe 23:31  Biholde thou not wyn, whanne it sparclith, whanne the colour therof schyneth in a ver.
Prov Wycliffe 23:32  It entrith swetli, but at the laste it schal bite as an eddre doith, and as a cocatrice it schal schede abrood venyms.
Prov Wycliffe 23:33  Thin iyen schulen se straunge wymmen, and thi herte schal speke weiwerd thingis.
Prov Wycliffe 23:34  And thou schalt be as a man slepinge in the myddis of the see, and as a gouernour aslepid, whanne the steere is lost.
Prov Wycliffe 23:35  And thou schalt seie, Thei beeten me, but Y hadde not sorewe; thei drowen me, and Y feelide not; whanne schal Y wake out, and Y schal fynde wynes eft?