9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
1Loue thou not gelousli the womman of thi bosum; lest sche schewe on thee the malice of yuel doctryn.
2Yyue thou not to a womman the power of thi soule; lest sche entre in thi vertu, and thou be schent.
3Biholde thou not a womman of many willis; lest perauenture thou falle in to the snaris of hir.
4Be thou not customable with a daunseresse, nethir here thou hir; lest perauenture thou perische in the spedi werk of hir.
5Biholde thou not a virgyn; lest perauenture thou be sclaundrid in the feirnesse of hir.
6Yyue not thi soule to hooris in ony thing; lest thou leese thee, and thi soule, and thin eritage.
7Nyle thou biholde aboute in the lanys of the cytee; nethir erre thou in the large streetis therof.
8Turne awei thi face fro a womman `wel arayed; and biholde thou not aboute the fairnesse of othere.
9Many men han perischid for the fairnesse of a womman; and `herbi couetise brenneth `an hiy as fier.
10Ech womman which is an hoore, ethir customable to fornycacioun, schal be defoulid as a fen in the weie.
11Many men wondrynge on the fairnesse of an alien womman weren maad repreuable, for whi the speche of hir brenneth an hiy as fier.
12Sitte thou not in ony maner with an alien womman, nether reste thou with hir on a bed;
13and iangle thou not with hir in wyn, lest perauenture thin herte boowe in to hir, and thou falle in to perdicioun bi thi blood.
14Forsake thou not an eld frend; for a newe frend schal not be lijk hym.
15Newe wijn is a newe frend; it schal wexe eld, and thou schalt drinke it with swetnesse.
16Coueyte thou not the glorie and richessis of a synnere; for thou noost, what distriyng of hym schal come.
17The wrong of vniust men plese not thee, and wite thou that a wickid man schal not plese til to hellis.
18Be thou fer fro a man that hath power to sle, and thou schalt not haue suspicioun of the drede of deth;
19and if thou neiyest to hym, nyle thou do ony trespasse, lest perauenture he take awei thi lijf.
20Knowe thou the comynyng of deth; for thou schalt entre in to the myddis of snaris, and thou schalt go on the armuris of hem that sorewen.
21Bi thi vertu kepe thee fro thi neiybore; and trete thou with wise men and prudent men.
22Just men be gestis, ethir mete feris, to thee; and gloriyng be `to thee in the dreed of God.
23And the thouyt of God be to thee in wit; and al thi tellynge be in the heestis of the hiyeste.
24Werkis schulen be preisid in the hond of crafti men, and the prince of the puple in the wisdom of his word; forsothe in the wit of eldere men a word.
25A man, a ianglere, is dredeful in his citee; and a fool hardi man in his word schal be hateful.