with language such as theirs.

3 Away from fools I’ll turn my eyes,

nor with the scoffers go;

I would be walking with the wise,

that wiser I may grow.

4 From one rude boy that’s used to mock,

ten learn the wicked jest;

One sickly sheep infects the flock,

and poisons all the rest.

5 My God, I hate to walk or dwell