Child, I bid thee on my blessing,
That thou forget not this for nothing;
But look, thou hold it well in thy mind,
For the best thou shalt it find.
For, as the wise man saith and proveth,
A wise child, lore he behoveth;
And as men say that learned be,
Who spareth the rod, the child hateth he;
And as the wise man saith in his book,
Of proverbs and wisdoms, who will look: