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- Wisedome hath builded her house: she hath hewen out her seuen pillars.
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- She hath killed her beastes;
she hath mingled her wine: she hath also furnished her table.
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- She hath sent forth her maidens;
she cryeth vpon the highest places of the citie.
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- Who so is simple, let him turne in hither: as for him that wanteth vnderstanding, she sayth to him:
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- Come, eate of my bread, and drinke of the wine, which I haue mingled.
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- Forsake the foolish, and liue;
and goe in the way of vnderstanding.
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- He that reproueth a scorner, getteth to himselfe shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himselfe a blot.
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- Reproue not a scorner, lest hee hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and hee will loue thee.
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- Giue instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a iust man, and he will increase in learning.
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- The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome: and the knowledge of the holy is vnderstanding.
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- For by me thy dayes shall be multiplied: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe increased.
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- If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thy selfe: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt beare it.
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- A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, & knoweth nothing.
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- For she sitteth at the doore of her house on a seate, in the high places of the Citie:
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- To call passengers who go right on their wayes:
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- Who so is simple, let him turne in hither: and as for him that wanteth vnderstanding, she saith to him;
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- Stollen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
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- But hee knoweth not that the dead are there, and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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