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foolish, and enuie fleaeth the litle one. I haue seene a foole with firme roote, and I cursed his beautie by and by. His children shal be made far from saluation, and shal be destroyed in the gate, and there shal be none to deliuer. Whose haruest the hungrie shal eate, & the armed shal take him by violence, and the thirstie shal drinke his riches. Nothing in the earth is done without a cause, and out of the ground sorrow shall not rise. ∷ Man is borne to labour, and the bird to flight. For the which thing I wil besech our Lord, and toward God I wil set my speach: Who doeth great and vnsearchable and meruelous things without number: Who geueth raine vpon the face of the earth, and watereth al thinges with waters: Who setteth the humble on high, and them that are in heauinesse he conforteth with health: Who dissipateth the cogitations of the malignant, that their handes can not accomplish that which they began: Who apprehendeth the wise in their subteltie, and dissipateth the counsel of the wicked: By day they shal incurre darkenesse, and as it were in the night, so shal they grope at noone daies. Moreouer he shal saue the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poore from the hand of the violent. And to the needie there shal be hope, but iniquitie shal draw together her mouth. Blessed is the man that is corrected of God: refuse not therfore the chastising of our Lord: Because he woundeth, and cureth: striketh, and his hands shal heale. In ∷ six tribulations he shal deliuer thee, and in the ∷ seuenth euil shal not touch thee. In famine he shal deliuer thee from death; and in battel, from the hand of the sword. From the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid; & thou shalt not feare calamitie when it cometh. In waste and famine thou shalt laugh; and the beastes of the earth thou shalt not fear. But with the stones of the landes thy couenant, and the beastes of the earth shal be peaceable to thee. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle hath peace, and visiting thy beautie, thou shalt not sinne. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shal be manifold, and thy progenie as the grasse of the earth. Thou shalt enter into the graue in abundance, as a heape of wheate is caryed in his time. Behold, this is euen so, as we haue searched out: which thou hauing heard reuolue in thy mind. ANNO-