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Men are not to be esteemed of according to their state, but their honesty and worthiness. He began this chapter with the same matter, and in the first verse, the same point is confirmed, where it is said, that better is the poor which walketh in his uprightness, then he that abuseth his lips, and is a fool. And in the twelfth¹ chapter: the righteous is more excellent then his neighbour. And in Ecclesiastes: Better is a poor, and wise child, then an old, and foolish ²king, which will no more be admonished. There is in appearance, great odds between an old man, and a child; between one that hath such princely treasures, and the other that is so bare and poor: between the high dignity of an ancient king, and the low abjection of a poor boy: and yet if such a mean ⟨p. 86⟩inferior be wise and teachable, he is in better case by the testimony of this text, then a mighty superior that is foolish and wilful.

Men are not to be esteemed of according to their state, but their honestie and worthines. He began this chapter with the same matter, and in the first verse, the same point is confirmed, where it is said, that better is the poore which walketh in his vprightnes, then he that abuseth his lippes, and is a foole. And in the twelfth¹ chapter: the righteous is more excellent then his neighbour. And in Ecclesiastes: Better is a poore, and wise child, then an old, and foolish ²king, which will no more be admonished. There is in appearance, great oddes betweene an old man, and a child; betweene one that hath such princely treasures, and the other that is so bare and poore: betweene the high dignitie of an ancient king, and the lowe abiection of a poore boy: and yet if such a meane ⟨p. 86⟩inferiour be wise and teachable, he is in better case by the testimonie of this text, then a mightie superiour that is foolish and wilfull.