A06504:451
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.
Wisdom with inheritance is better then they that see the Sun.
Wisdome with inheritaunce is better then they that see the Sunne.
TO see the sun,1 is to be merry & rejoice in this life, or to live pleasantly. This he meaneth: wisdom with inheritance passeth all the pleasant life in the world. And he maketh a comparison: wisdom defendeth, and so doth money, as we say: Goods do encourage, that is, they that have riches, have trust, they that have wisdom have trust (these be things granted) but yet make I a difference between them. For herein ⟨image 122⟩wisdom passeth riches or money, that wisdom bringeth life to the owner. This is not money able to do, it neither keepeth life, nor delivereth from death. This he saith, because he would not seem utterly to condemn riches, but only the abuse of them. Then he preferreth wisdom, because it saveth the owners life.
TO sée the sunne,1 is to be meary & reioyce in this lyfe, or to liue pleasaūtly. This he meaneth: wisedome with inheritaunce passeth all the pleasaunt lyfe in the worlde. And he maketh a comparison: wisedome defendeth, and so doth money, as we say: Goods doe encourage, that is, they that haue riches, haue trust, they that haue wisdome haue trust (these be things graunted) but yet make I a difference betwene them. For herein ⟨image 122⟩