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Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

¶ My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

¶ My sonne, attend vnto my wisedome, and bowe thine eare to my vnderstanding.

And why wilt thou, my sonne, be rauisht with a strange woman, and imbrace the bosome of a stranger?

¶ My sonne, if thou bee surety for thy friend, it thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Doe this now, my sonne, and deliuer thy selfe, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend: goe, humble thy selfe, and make sure thy friend.

1611 marginal noteOr, so shalt thou preuaile with thy friend.

¶ My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

1611 marginal noteChap.1.8.

¶ My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.

¶ The Prouerbes of Solomon: A wise sonne maketh a glad father: but a foolish sonne is the heauinesse of his mother.

1611 marginal noteChap. 15.20.

Hee that gathereth in Summer, is a wise sonne: but hee that sleepeth in haruest, is a sonne that causeth shame.