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 VII. Chapter.
A noteMy sonne, kepe my wordes, ∧ laye vp
my c&obar;maundem&ebar;tes by the. Kepe
my c&obar;maundem&ebar;tes ∧ my lawe, eu&ebar;
as the aple of thine eye, ∧ thou shalt lyue.
Bynde them vpon thy fyngers, ∧ wryte th&ebar;
in the table of thine hert. Saye vnto wysdome:
thou art my sister, and call vnderstondinge
thy kynswoman: note that she maye kepe þe;
fr&obar; þe; stra&ubar;ge wom&abar;, ∧ fr&obar; þe; harlot which geueth
swete wordes. For out of the wyndowe
of my house I loked thorow the trelies, ∧ behelde
the simple people: ∧ amonge other yonge
folkes I spyed one yonge foole goinge ouer
the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde
the harlottes house in the twylight of
of the euenynge, when it beg&abar;ne now to be
night and darcke.
B And beholde, there mett
him a wom&abar; in an harlottes apparell (a disceatfull,
w&abar;ton ∧ an vnstedfast wom&abar;: whose
fete coude not abyde in þe; house, now is she
without, now &ibar; þe; stretes, ∧ lurketh &ibar; euery corner)
she caught þe; y&obar;ge m&abar;, kyssed him ∧ was
not ashamed, say&ebar;ge: I had a vowe to paye, ∧
this daye I perfourme it. Therfore came I
forth to mete the, that I might seke thy face,
and so I haue founde the. I haue deckte my
bed with coueringes ∧ clothes of Egipte.
My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes
and Cynamom. Come, let vs lye together,
∧ take oure pleasure till it be daye light.
For the good man is not at home, he is gone
farre of. He hath taken the bagg of moneye
with him, who can tell wh&ebar; he c&obar;meth
home?
C Thus with many swete wordes she
ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes
she wanne him. note
Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were
an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were
to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed) so
longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with
hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare,
not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth
there vp&obar;. Heare me now therfore (o my
sonne) and marcke the wordes of my mouth.
Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes,
∧ be not thou disceaued in hir pathes. For
many one hath she wo&ubar;ded and cast downe,
yee many a stronge m&abar; hath she slayne. Hir
house is the waye vnto hell, where men go
downe to the chambers of death.
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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