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1 A good name is more worth then precious oyntment: & the day of death, is better the the day of byrth. 2 It is better to go into an house of mourning, then into a banketting house: For there is the ende of all men, and he that is liuing taketh it to heart. 3 Grauitie is better then to laugh: for when the countenaunce is heauie, the heart is refourmed. 4 The heart of the wise is in the mourning house: but the heart of the foolishe is in the house of myrth. 5 It is better to geue eare to the chastening of a wyse man, then to heare the songue of fooles: 6 For the laughyng of fooles is like the cracking of thornes vnder a pot: and that is but a vayne thing. 7 The wyse man hateth wrong dealing, and abhorreth the heart that coueteth rewardes. 8 Better is it to consider the ende of a thing then the beginning: The pacient of spirite, is better then the hye minded. 9 Be not hastyly angrie in thy minde: for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles. Ecclesiastes 7:1-9, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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