r 32 PROVERBS. Chap.': reproaches, plots, and pradiles : for all that they can doe, is but onelyto !house looks bolts , andWifedome at all din( s isableto make her party goo(' againil Folly. Hecde not fo muchwhat they fp;ake , or doe, or purpole , as who they be, andwhat theyare. Are they (wearers and fwaggerers ? Are they filthyand adulterous ? Are they couctous andop- prelTours? Are they impious and vnrighteous%In the iudge- ment ofwife ,i'A/o non , yea of the onely c. de God, they are very Pokes, though neuer fo great and mighty , in regard whereof, ceare not to trouble cur fel ties with their fayings. It is no great matter to be called a Poole of him that is a Poole : whowould care for it?' Dca.3, Delpire ", r +Eiáon &'c.] Wicked men take it for a great indignityy tobe taught their duty. See Chap. 15,1o. Verfe 8. MySonne, heare thy Fathers rm ion, and for- fal`e not thy Mothers teachinó : Verfey. For they jhall be a comely ornament vnto thy head, andas chainesfor thyneckf, TRue Wifedomehauing beene before defcribed, and the feare ofGod commended , hee adioyneth an exhorts tion to embrace the fame,by making vieofthe means there- of, where we hau.e to ohlerue z Precept, verle 8. a s Promife, verte 9. In the Precept arc tobe confdered the fubieds ofit`, the perlons to-.whom it is direC}ed, euery faithful] Reader, and thereforehefpeaketh to all, as ifit were one man : and that out ofpure loue, euen as his father to his bcloued childe, and becaufe bee fhouldhearken to him as a Zoning childe to his father, he calleth himSonne. In the next place the matter of the Precept is to beno- ted, that hee heare thedoctrine whereby this wifedotne is offered, called Ins`IraiRion andTeaching, which he commen- deth by theefficient inftrumentall, to wit, his parents, which fliould
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