Textes of the scripture.
Queen of England Elizabeth I translation
These .iiii. clauses of the sacred scripture added my lady Helisabeth vnto the begynnynge and ende of her boke, and therfor I haue here regestred thē in the ende.
Eccle. 25.
There is not a more wycked heade, than the heade of the serpente. And there is no wrathe aboue the wrathe of a womā.
Eccle. 25.
But he that hath goten a vertuouse woman, hath goten a goodly possessyon. She is vnto hym an helpe and pyller, whervpon he restith.
Eccle. 25.
It were better to dwelle with a lyon and dragon, than to kepe howse with a wycked wyfe.
Eccle. 7.
Yet depart not from a dyscrete and good woman, that is fallen vnto the for thy porcyon in the feare of the lorde, for the gifte of her honestie, is aboue golde.