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The book of Proverbs hath not escaped the foul hands of such corruptors rather then translators, as by many places of the same may too plainly be perceived.¹ In the latter end of the fourth Chap. a great many of words together are added to ⟨p. 318⟩the text, as is acknowledged by the adversaries them-selves. In the sixth Chapter the vulgar translation hath, Thou hast fixed down thy soul with the stranger: Whereas it should be thus,² thou hast shaken hands with the stranger. And after the 11. vers. a whole sentence is thrust into the text, which ought to have no place therein. Again in the 26. verse of his Chapter, where Solomon saith that by reason of a harlot a man is brought to a morsel of bread, the words of your translation are these, the price of an harlot is scarcely the worth of one loaf: ³no doubt wisely and cunningly translated. In the 7. Chapter after the end of the first verse is an other addition of a whole sentence: and so also is there in the end of the 9. Chap.⁴ And in other places sundry moe, not only of words, but of whole verses and sentences: which cannot any ways be otherwise accounted then a thing unlawful in Gods word, and by no means to be defended.

The booke of Prouerbes hath not escaped the foul hands of such corruptors rather then translators, as by manie places of the same maie too plainelie be perceiued.¹ In the latter end of the fourth Chap. a great manie of wordes together are added to ⟨p. 318⟩the text, as is acknowledged by the aduersaries them-selues. In the sixt Chapter the vulgar translation hath, Thou hast fixed downe thy soule with the straunger: Whereas it should be thus,²