Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
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The V. Chapter.
A My sonne, geue hede vnto my wysdome,
∧ bowe thine eare vnto my prud&ebar;ce:
þt; thou mayest regarde good councell,
and that thy lippes maye kepe nurtoure.
noteFor the lippes of an harlot are a droppinge
hony combe, and hir throte is softer then
oyle. But at þe; last she is as bitter as wormwod,
and as sharpe as a two edged swerde.
Hir fete go downe vnto death, and hir steppes
pearse thorow vnto hell. She regardeth
not the path of life, so vnstedfast are hir wayes,
that thou canst not knowe them. Heare
me therfore (o my sonne) and departe not fr&obar;
the wordes of my mouth. Kepe thy waye
farre from her, and come not nye þe; dores of
hir house. That thou geue not thine hono&highr;
vnto another, and thy yeares to the cruell.
B That other men be not fylled with thy goodes,
∧ that thy labours come not in a straunge
house. Yee that thou mourne not at the
last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes)
and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure?
why dyd my hert despyse correccion?
Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce
of my teachers, ∧ herkened not vnto them
that infourmed me? I am come almost in to
all mysfortune, in the myddest of the multitude
and congregacion. Drinke of the water
of thine owne well, and of the ryuers that
runne out of thine owne spr&ibar;ges. Let þi; welles
flowe out a brode, that there maye be ryuers
of water in the stretes. But let them be
only thine owne, ∧ not straungers with the.
Let thy well be blessed, and be glad with the
wife of thy youth.
C Louynge is the hynde,
and frendly is the Roo: note let her brestes alwaye
satisfie the, and holde the euer content
with hir loue. My sonne, why wilt thou haue
pleasure in an harlot, and embrace the bosome
of another wom&abar;? noteFor euery m&abar;s wayes
are open in the sight of the LORDE, and
he p&obar;dereth all their goinges. The wickednesses
of the vngodly shal catch himself, and
with the snares of his owne synnes shal he be
trapped. Because he wolde not be refourmed,
he shal dye: and for his greate foolishnesse
he shal be destroyed.
Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
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