The Sayings or Proverbs of King Solomon

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Ringler 22899 and TP 589. (Not in Brown and Robbins.) Trans. from an anonymous French original. UMI microfilm reel 146. Order no. 10002

The sayinges or prouerbes of king Salomon, with the answers of Marcolphus / tr. out of frenche in to englysshe
London: R. Pynson [for R. Wyer],1529?.



Composition Date: c. 1529 [STC].

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	¶The sayinges or prouerbes of king Salomon / with the answers of Marcolphus / translated out of frenche in-to englysshe.
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	sig: A2 ¶Salomon.
	HE that wyll measure
	Of all the sees the water
	Is nat very sage.
	¶Marcolphus.
	¶He that holdeth in his honde
5	The faythe of an hore / as a good bonde
	He is full of rage.
	¶Salomon.
	¶Caste a stone at an ape
	Or a staffe / if that he scape
	The more wyll he mowe and moyle.
	¶Marcolphus.
10	¶Gyue to a hoore her askynge
	Outher late or in the mornynge
	The more she wyll you dispoyle.
	¶Salomon.
	¶A house that in euery cornere
	Letteth in wynde / sone burneth clere
15	Whan fyre therin taketh.
	¶Marcolph.
	¶A hoore that is gay
	Is redy nowe and alway
	Whan that she money seth.
	¶Salomon.
	¶Who-so-euer hath sycknesse
20	Is very ioyfull I gesse
	Whan he with lyfe dothe scape.
	¶Marcol.
	¶He that a hoore byleueth
	Nothynge with hym abydeth
	Nouther mantell nor cape.
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	¶Salomon.
25	¶No man shall knowe or marke
	A coler in the darke
	Paynted on a spoone.
	¶Marcol.
	¶Nor a preuy hoore
	Taken shall be at any houre
30	In doynge / by nyght or noone.
	¶Salomon.
	¶A conye hym-selfe hydeth
	And depely he ofte dyggeth
	Yet at last is he take.
	¶Marcol.
	¶A hoore so moche plucketh
35	A man / and on hym laugheth
	That she hym maketh leane as a rake.
	¶Salomon.
	¶At a Ouen-mouthe / that is hot
	That thynketh yerbes shuld growe for the pot
	Of trouth he is begyled.
	¶Marcol.
40	¶He that withouten fayle
	Putteth his hande to a hores tayle
	Shall haue it soone defyled
	¶Salomon.
	¶Charge vpon a beest
	Money or leade in a chest
45	Whether / they nothyng care.
	¶Marcol.
	¶A hoore taketh no kepe
	What man on her dothe leape
	All is to her one fare.
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	¶Salomon.
	¶A horse that his brydell hath on
50	He is redy anon
	For to go on his waye.
	¶Marcol.
	¶A hoore clothed gayly
	Is soone made redy
	To begyn her ioye.
	¶Salomon.
55	¶He that in his house as lefe
	Cheryssheth a thefe
	Shall receyue great domage.
	¶Marcol.
	¶He that an hoore kepeth to honoure
	At th'ende he shall wepe and loure
60	Whan he knoweth her vsage.
	¶Salomon.
	¶A man so longe may chase
	Through woddes and playne percase
	That at last he shall be wery.
	¶Marcol.
	¶Many a hoore oft clotheth
65	And brede to her gyueth
	That with other she is more mery.
	¶Salomon.
	¶The oxe of the villayne
	His brede dothe often gayne
	Wherwith he lyueth here.
	¶Marcol.
70	¶He bosteth hym-selfe in vayne
	That thynketh a hoore certayne
	To [f]lee with his gere. letter broken
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	¶Salomon.
	¶He that to a dogge sayth haue
	He wyll anone his tayle waue
75	And than he hym fawneth.
	¶Marcol.
	¶He that to a hoore sayth holde
	She byddeth hym be bolde
	All is redy that he commaundeth
	¶Salomon.
	¶Men accompte them as wyse as fooles
80	That the burnynge coles
	In their bosomes wyll hyde.
	¶Marcol.
	¶For a foole he is tolde
	That wasteth all his golde
	To clothe a hoores syde.
	¶Salomon.
85	¶Stockfysshe is of valewe none
	Except it be trewly layde vpon
	And often tourned and beaten
	¶Marcol.
	¶A rybaude she is lost
	If she be nat well beate and tost
90	And vnder fote troden.
	¶Salomon.
	¶The ape is a beest lothsom
	And of a counterfayte fasshyon
	It hath so shorte a tayle
	¶Marcol.
	¶So counterfayte is none parde
95	But by money haue shall he
	Of a hoore his wyll without fayle.
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	¶Salomon.
	¶The lytell cockerell
	Eateth his meate well
	In crowynge he nedeth no scole.
	¶Marcol.
100	¶A hoore her-selfe clotheth
	And also she fedeth
	With the money of a foole.
	¶Salomon.
	¶An asse in close kept fast
	Ryseth vp in haste
105	Whan he seeth pasture.
	¶Marcol.
	¶He that a hoore for hym-selfe kepeth
	She often another in his sted taketh
	Whan his money no lenger wyll endure.
	¶Salomon.
	¶The thorne in a hedge taketh
110	And the woll of plucketh
	Of shepe and of mottons.
	¶Marcol.
	¶A hoore plucketh away
	The money day by day
	Of all maner companyons.
	¶Salomon.
115	¶Mortalyte and great warre
	Be exyled farre
	Fro all maner of men.
	¶Marcol.
	¶For a hoore all myschefe
	Mortalyte / warre and great grefe
120	Commeth soone agayne.
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	¶Salomon.
	¶The fawcon is well loued
	And of the fawconer well reclaymed
	By his gentle deporte.
	¶Marcol.
	¶He that a hoore wyll leade
125	Thorough the sees / in tyme of nede
	Shall neuer haue good porte.
	¶Salomon.
	¶He is a fole without fayle
	And leseth his trauayle
	That layeth a fox to slepe.
	¶Marcol.
130	¶He is more foole for certayne
	That perceyueth a hoore wolde parte fayne
	And seketh meanes her styll to kepe.
	¶Salomon.
	¶The fowler there his net layeth
	Where-as he comonly seeth
135	Byrdes fede and rest.
	¶Marcol.
	¶A hoore foloweth that waye
	Where-as she seeth a pray
	Of Rybawdes a great nest.
	¶Finis.
	Cum priuilegio.
	¶Imprinted at London in flete strete by Rycharde Pynson: And be for to sell at the signe of saynt Iohnn Euangelyst in saynt Martyns parysshe / besyde Charynge crosse.