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An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed.An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
¶ Anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.
This is an hebrew phrase, which we thus utter in Dutch: Anger is proper unto fools, that is, they will easily or soon be angry.
THis is an hebrewe phrase, which we thus vtter in Dutch: Anger is proper vnto fooles, that is, they will easely or sone be angry.
¶Say not thou, why is it that the days of old time were better then these? For thou dost not enquire wisely of this thing.
¶Saye not thou, why is it that the daies of olde time were better then these? For thou doost not enquyre wysely of this thinge.
1This thing the heart of man goeth about to search when it seeth the unkindness of the world, It is worse then ever it was before. Say not thou so, for this is no wise question or demand. Thus use old men to say: When I was a boy, all things were better then they be now, as saith the Poet: A praiser of the time passed. But Solomon saith it is false. It went not well to work. For the reason why thou diddest not see it, nor perceive it before now is, for that as our years increase, so experience of things, and occasions of anger increase. For a child careth not, nor is not envied, though one man deceive an other or kill an other &c. but holdeth on his play, rideth up and down, hunteth and thinketh it a great fault, for one to steal an others