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Prouerbs 7

¹My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.

²Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.

⁴Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,

⁵That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶For at the windowe of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding,

⁸Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house,

⁹In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night:

¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart.

¹¹(She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house:

¹²Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)

¹³So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him,

¹⁴I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes.

¹⁵Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.

¹⁶I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.

¹⁷I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

¹⁸Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.

¹⁹For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.

²⁰He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

²¹With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

²²He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks,

²³Til a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

²⁴Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths.

²⁶For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her.

²⁷Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death.