A20547:626
A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes…
A plain and familiar exposition of the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the eleuenth and twelfth chapters of the Prouerbes of Salomon
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Henry Sharpe, 1607London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Henrie Sharpe, 1607
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.
Secondly, it is a point of humility to be silent in modesty, as pride, and conceitedness maketh men desirous to hear themselves speaking.
Secondly, it is a point of humilitie to bee silent in modestie, as pride, and conceitednesse maketh men desirous to heare themselues speaking.
Thirdly, their words are so much more desirable, and better accepted as they are rare, and few, and seasonable. How good is a word in due season? saith the Scripture. And a word spoken in his 1place is as apples of gold upon pictures of silver. The ointment that is close kept in a box will yield a sweeter savour when it is poured out, then that which is continually open. And wine fresh from the vessel hath a better relish, then that which was drawn long before there was need of it, or any to drink it.
Thirdly, their words are so much more desireable, and better accepted as they are rare, and few, and seasonable. How good is a word in due season? saith the Scripture. And a word spoken in his 1place is as apples of gold vpon pictures of siluer. The ointment that is close kept in a boxe wil yeeld a sweter sauour when it is powred out, then that which is continually open. And wine fresh from the vessell hath a better relish, then that which was drawne long before there was neede of it, or any to drinke it.