Riches increase full many friends; forsooth also they be departed from a poor man, which he had.
The chattel [or substance] of a rich man is the city of his strength; the dread of poor men is the neediness of them.
A poor man shall be hateful, yea, to his neighbour; but many men be friends of rich men.
A false witness shall not be unpunished; and he that speaketh leasings, shall not escape.