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| 7:1 |
 y sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee. |
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| 7:2 |
Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye. |
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| 7:3 |
Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart. |
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| 7:4 |
Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman, |
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| 7:5 |
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. |
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| 7:6 |
For at the windowe of my house I looked through my casement, |
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| 7:7 |
And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding, |
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| 7:8 |
Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house, |
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| 7:9 |
In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night: |
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| 7:10 |
And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart. |
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| 7:11 |
(She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house: |
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| 7:12 |
Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.) |
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| 7:13 |
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, |
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| 7:14 |
I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. |
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| 7:15 |
Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee. |
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| 7:16 |
I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt. |
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| 7:17 |
I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom. |
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| 7:18 |
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues. |
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| 7:19 |
For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney. |
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| 7:20 |
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. |
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| 7:21 |
With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. |
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| 7:22 |
He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks, |
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| 7:23 |
Til a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. |
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| 7:24 |
Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
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| 7:25 |
Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths. |
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| 7:26 |
For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her. |
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| 7:27 |
Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death. |
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