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My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
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Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
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Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
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Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
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That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
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For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,
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And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,
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Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.
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In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
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And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering,
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Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
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Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
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And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
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I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.
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Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.
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I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.
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For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.
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He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.
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She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
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Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,
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Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.
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Now therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
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Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.
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For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
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Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
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